This and the following photograph are included to place the context of the former use of the building. Here we can see a fine array of trams and trolleybuses stabled within the western end of the depot. The single deck trolleybus was one of a small fleet used between Ashton and Hathershaw on the former tram route to Oldham. The presence of double deck trolleybuses points to the photograph having been taken in 1938 prior to the conversion of the routes to Manchester to trolleybus operation. Tram no 32 was to be Ashton’s last tram and performed its last trip from Manchester to Ashton on the afternoon of 1st March 1938. On arrival back in Ashton it was driven straight back to Manchester along with sister car 36 to the scrapyard behind Manchester’s Hyde Road depot.