Council seeking to get driver who crashed into historic Tameside landmarks to pay for their restoration
manchestereveningnews.co.ukCouncil bosses are seeking to recover all the costs of repairing two historic Tameside landmarks from the driver who crashed into them.The Grade II listed Trough and cast iron transformer at the junction of Manchester Road and Audenshaw Road were badly damaged in an early morning collision at the end of May.The granite horse and cattle drinking trough, which has been in place in Fairfield in Audenshaw since 1879, was smashed into several pieces after a BMW mounted the pavement and collided with it.A cast iron electricity transformer which sits behind it containing the Manchester coat of arms and which used to contain three lamps to direct trams during the days of the Manchester Corporation was also flattened.Denton MP Andrew Gwynne has now.
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