Musgrave Garage

Shortly after the end of WW2 Melia’s took advantage of the poor market for old cotton related premises and moved from their Middlebrook Mill garage to the ‘Musgrave Garage’, named after its former occupants. The old Musgrave works occupied a large pentagon shaped complex situated on island between Kay Street, Croasdale Street and Waterloo Street. Melia’s Transport bought the ‘Admiralty Room’, the building where the metal for constructing the boilers was rolled. The site is now occupied by a B&Q retail warehouse.     

Musgrave Garage with six or seven lorries parked-up. On Sunday evenings Thomas would watch the drivers start up their vehicles before going on their way. This photo was taken in 1947. 

The same building about ten years later and from the opposite end. The vehicles are updated and now under BRS livery.   

John Musgrave works complex

Melia’s Transport garage would be the building in the foreground to the right of the entrance. It was regarded as ‘too big’ for the company when acquired.

Family photo

Family photo

Historic England?

From an old advert