I guess that must be right, Freddy. Apologies once again but the point in question was whether it was a gasworks wall or croft :-)

He would indeed have welcomed the change and taking the axe to the dirty old town. In real life though the dirty old town has not existed for, what, 40 odd years? The point being that Salford council, having been rid of the images in the song, now do not seem to know when to stop. There is a huge difference between cleaning up your environment and removing all traces of your past. Which really brings me back to the point. If the ironwork can be re-purposed and used for something else, housing for instance, why not do it?

Out of interest, I did a rework of it some time back. Not very good but I found it an interesting exercise and it brings us back to being a music thread :-)

New Old Town

It goes on to have bits re-written by committee here :-)