Catching the tram at Brooks's Bar, 1895

I seem to be venturing further from the township and today have arrived at Brook Bar or Brook Road as it was more popularly known in the 1880s.  

The caption records that this is “Brooks’s Bar about 1895.  The horse tram from the Exchange has arrived and the horse bus for Chorlton Green is waiting to depart.”

And in my search to find out more about the houses of Whalley Range I came across this site http://whalleyrange.org/which is a wonderful place to get a sense of the history and current events in the place where Samuel Brooks developed his estate in 1836.

Picture; from the Lloyd collection