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| Edge Lane and Peel House in 1853 |
It was the last big posh place on Edge Lane as you walked into Stretford from Chorlton. It only had nine rooms, compared to the 10 of Edge House, the 12 of Avenhau House and the mansion which was Longford Hall.
But what it has going for it is a wonderful line drawing, made in 1968 shortly before it was demolished to widen Edge Lane which belongs to Laura who has kindly given me a copy. It was made by S Massey who I rather think will be the same Samuel Massey who wrote a history of Stretford.*
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| Peel House, 1968, by S. Massey |
Now I can’t claim to be the expert on Stretford’s history and I bet there will be someone who wades in to correct me which is all to the good.
But I think Peel House was in place by the 1830s and in 1841 was home to Amos Banister who was 70 years old and described himself as “Independent” which means he had enough to live on and he shared Peel House with Thomas and Mary Norbury and their son and servant.
Mary may well have been Amos's daughter or at least was related because a decade he was living with them.
By now Amos had passed on and the property was in the hands of Thomas who described himself as an “Inspector of Houses.” And another one of the Brundrett family crops up as living there. He was the 20 years old Robert Brundrett, who was a clerk in a solicitor’s.
Over the next sixty years Peel House was home to a succession of well off families and by one of those nice touches, the resident in 1911 was the jeweller Charles Payne who the artist records as Mr “Payne of Lloyd, Payne and Amiel, Jewellers of Manchester.”
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| Thomas Street, circa 1900 |
Charles Payne lived in Peel House with seven members of his family including his daughter, son in law, two grandchildren, a nephew, niece, and a coachman and two servants.
I do share Laura’s regret that I never got to see Peel House, but at least there is Laura's picture of the house given to her by the previous owners of her home.
But you can still see where Charles sold his jewels which is something I guess, and maybe in the fullness of time I will revisit Peel House.
Pictures; Peel House from the OS maps of Lancashire, 1841-53, and Thomas Street from Goads’ Fire Insurance map, courtesy of Digital Archives, http://www.digitalarchives.co.uk/ and Peel House 1968, by S.Massey courtesy of Laura
Amos Bannister was listed as a Timber Merchant according to Baines' History of Lancaster 1825. In Samuel Massey's A History Of Stretford "his trade covered the area later occupied by Lacy Street, Cooper Street and Newton Street" next to the Bridgewater Canal. "The area was known as "The Timbers" or "Bannister's Timber Yard". It would suggest that Bannister Street, which was parallel to Edge Lane leading to the Methodist Chapel was named after him. There is only one photograph of Peel House in the Trafford Achives which shows a view from the railway side, however it can be seen on a number of aerial photographs of Stretford on britainfromabove.org.uk.
ReplyDeleteAmos Bannister was listed as a Timber Merchant according to Baines' History of Lancaster 1825. In Samuel Massey's A History Of Stretford "his trade covered the area later occupied by Lacy Street, Cooper Street and Newton Street" next to the Bridgewater Canal. "The area was known as "The Timbers" or "Bannister's Timber Yard". It would suggest that Bannister Street, which was parallel to Edge Lane leading to the Methodist Chapel was named after him. There is only one photograph of Peel House in the Trafford Achives which shows a view from the railway side, however it can be seen on a number of aerial photographs of Stretford on britainfromabove.org.uk.
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