Walking our past yesterday on a day when the sun shone down

Pub number 7, the Lloyds Hotel and the Great Chorlton Burial Scandal

It was a good day for a pub walk.

The sun shone, lots of people turned up and we didn’t lose any of them which was an achievement given that the walk started at the Horse & Jockey on the green and made its way across Chorlton, taking in all our historic drinking places and more than a few who have yet to celebrate their third birthday.

Along the way we discovered something of how the pubs reflected the changes that took us from a small rural community to a suburb of Manchester in just twenty odd years,  fitted in  some murders, the Great Chorlton Burial Scandal and a little of what it was like to live in the township in the middle of the 19th century.

The Horse & Jockey, the start of the walk

So thank you to all who came, and for those who missed it we are doing it all over again next Sunday at 1 pm from the green with more stories from the past.

I shall be accompanied by my old pal Peter Topping whose paintings of the pubs featured on the walk and whose exhibition of these and much more of Chorlton, Manchester and beyond can be seen at CHORLTON-CUM-HARDY... A MOMENT IN TIME EXHIBITION. 

The Exhibition is on till May 25th 2014 at Arison Gallery, 512 Wilbraham Road, Chorlton, M21 9AW. Telephone: 0161 881 6734, email: arison.gallery@ntlworld.com web: www.gladtobe.in

Picture and paintings; © 2014 Peter Topping, Paintings from Pictures,

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