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The picture was taken by F Blyth in the same year who also printed the book while on his second year course at the Technical College.
“Hough End Hall which was just outside the township in Withington had been home to the Mosley’s while Barlow Hall on the southern edge of Chorlton had been owned by the Barlow family. Both in their different ways fit into the conventional image of old landed families.
The Mosley’s had moved into commerce in the late sixteenth century, sided with the Royalist cause in the Civil War and suffered from spendthrift gambling members in the eighteenth, finally selling the Hall on to the Egerton’s around 1751.
Hough End Hall been built at the end of the sixteenth century. By 1847 it was a farmhouse and was the home of Henry Jackson who farmed 220 acres beyond the eastern boundary of the township.
This made it one of the largest farms in the area, and Jackson employed 13 labourers, nine of whom lived in the hall. It was still an impressive sight, leading one observer to write that its
‘ivy-covered walls, its clustered chimneys and its gabled roof, present a picturesque and pleasing appearance.*
Nor did the ivy or its more functional purpose as a farm obscure its classic Elizabethan design. It was built of brick with three stories. The centre piece was flanked by a bay or arm at each end and a little advance bay in the centre which gave it the characteristic E shape.
The large communal areas were sometimes later partitioned off into smaller rooms and the census of 1911 describes Hough End Hall with eleven rooms.”
From; The Story of Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/the-story-of-chorlton-cum-hardy.html
* Brooker, Rev John, A History of the Chapels of Didsbury and Chorlton, Chetham Society, Manchester, 1857,
Picture; of Hough End Hall 1933, by F. Blyth, from A Short history of Chorlton-cum-Hardy by J.D. Blyth, 1933
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