The roof came first. Scaffolding up the frontage, chimneys repointed brick by brick, the interiors stripped back to their bones. Slow, unglamorous, structural work, the kind that has to happen before anything visible can.
The Manchester Evening News ran a spread, All change at Levenshulme South, and the three of us who started the station stood outside in hard hats for the photograph.
A hundred and twenty-six years of weather to undo before we could begin.
Part of the Station South case study.