A rare picture of the township and a possible date

This is another of those pictures which is fading from living memory.

I don’t have an exact date but it will be some time during or after the early 1930s.

Chorlton Park behind the school was established in 1925 at about the same time that Nell Lane was widened. 

Further to the south where Hardy Lane runs into Barlow Moor Road, there is the parade of shops which includes the old Manchester & Salford Co-op store which was opened in 1929.

Despite the swift development of housing across Chorlton in the years from the late 1870s there was still plenty of open land around during the 1930s. There are still barns close to Hough End Hall and the brook still meanders through green fields.

Picture; from the Lloyd collection