Now I remain fascinated by water courses, rivers streams and ponds and write about them whenever the opportunity arises.
So I was very pleased when Barry of the History Team of Victoria Baths Trust wrote to me about one of my stories on the Gore Brook.
This is one of those special watercourses as it eventually becomes our own Chorlton Brook, so I shall do no more than quote his email and his pictures.
"Hi Andrew
I’m attaching a scan of a map of the area through which Gore Brook runs in the pictures on your recent post (which I commented on).
I estimate the map to be from the early 1920s, before Manchester Grammar School was built.
The drain for the ditch must have been culverted under the Grammar School or its playing fields. The Nico Ditch itself runs in a straight line along the length of Old Hall Lane (which now joins up with Old Hall Road near Slade Lane) and into Platt Fields. It can clearly be seen alongside Platt Chapel on Wilmslow Road and in Platt Fields Park.
The attached picture 1612 was taken at the same location but pointing to the left and shows the Nico Ditch (discoloured water) draining into Gore Brook."
History Team
Victoria Baths Trust
Victoria Baths - Britain's Best Loved Restoration Project, open as a Heritage Visitor Attraction and also an arts, education and community venue, from April to November
Victoria Baths Trust, Victoria Baths, Hathersage Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester M13 0FE, 0161 224 2020
www.victoriabaths.org.uk
*Chorlton rivers, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Chorlton%20rivers
So I was very pleased when Barry of the History Team of Victoria Baths Trust wrote to me about one of my stories on the Gore Brook.
This is one of those special watercourses as it eventually becomes our own Chorlton Brook, so I shall do no more than quote his email and his pictures.
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| Map of the area circa 1920s |
I’m attaching a scan of a map of the area through which Gore Brook runs in the pictures on your recent post (which I commented on).
I estimate the map to be from the early 1920s, before Manchester Grammar School was built.
The drain for the ditch must have been culverted under the Grammar School or its playing fields. The Nico Ditch itself runs in a straight line along the length of Old Hall Lane (which now joins up with Old Hall Road near Slade Lane) and into Platt Fields. It can clearly be seen alongside Platt Chapel on Wilmslow Road and in Platt Fields Park.
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© Barry Johnson
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History Team
Victoria Baths Trust
Victoria Baths - Britain's Best Loved Restoration Project, open as a Heritage Visitor Attraction and also an arts, education and community venue, from April to November
Victoria Baths Trust, Victoria Baths, Hathersage Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester M13 0FE, 0161 224 2020
www.victoriabaths.org.uk
*Chorlton rivers, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Chorlton%20rivers
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