West Point on the Chorlton, Trafford border and that marker sign

It’s less a new story and more an update on an old one.

West Point is the area around the junction of Upper Chorlton Road, Manchester Road and Seymour Grove.

Before its development as an area of fine houses for wealthy families it was known simply as the Flash.

But West Point was its name for most of the last decades of the 19th century and well into the following.

Since then the name has rather faded from living memory.

Recently there was a move to reinstate both the name and erect a sign post.

So David who lives in Firswood set the ball rolling by approaching a councillor in the Longford ward of Trafford who was sympathetic and collecting signatures on a petition.

The hope was that Trafford Council would fund the cost, but sadly it felt the area was too small to warrant a sign and would also “create confusion for people trying to find the building West Point at the junction of Chester Road and Stretford Road.”*

And while it had no objection to the erection of a marker pillar it “currently has no funding to pay for such a feature.”

This does not rule out a marker pillar but this would have to be paid for by voluntary contributions, which given the present economic climate is understandable.

So we shall see.

Pictures; of West Point from the Lloyd collection

*RE: PETITION Requesting ‘West Point’ Marker or Sign, August 21 2013