KFC

Sounds like a football club (Kilmarnock Football Club? Keswick Football Club?), but as far as Hyde is concerned it stands for Kentucky Fried Chicken and there's a drive-through restaurant currently being built in Hyde.

This is the multi-storey car park (if two upper levels can be called multi-storey), pictured here in August 2013 which has been demolished to make way for the KFC.

This photograph was taken in April this year during the demolition of the car park

Work is now going on at the upper end of the site, at the corner of Union Street and Clarendon Place where it appears the KFC building is to be situated. It looks as if it will be some months before the drive-through restaurant will be finished and in use.

Fear not though - the bottom end of the site adjacent to the Clarendon Square Shopping Centre and John Grundy House is going to be a car park and the pay machine for that car park has already been installed.

Since I wrote the above a tarmac surface has been applied to the car park and it has been brought into use. Entry to it is along the entrance to the old multi-storey car park (formerly Beeley Street) and along the side of the construction work at the top of the site.

I was intrigued by this banner for the new restaurant. What's it got to do with Rolf Harris? Appropriately, though, because of the fencing he appears to be behind bars, or sogood one might say.