Walking four hundred years of Chorlton's history ........ today from Hough End Hall to the Lloyds

I have no idea what Sir Nicholas Mosley would have thought about the fact that 419 years after he moved into his fine new home at Hough End Hall it would feature as part of Chorlton Arts Festival.

Or for that matter it would be the starting point for one of those popular historic walks and talks across the township.

This one aims to tell a little of the story of the Hall and the people who lived and worked there over the last four centuries.

But there is much more because as we make our way from Sir Nicholas’s front garden across Chorlton to the Lloyds Hotel I want to offer up a description of the place and who back in the 1840s you had to be polite to.

The events are part of Chorlton Arts Festival and there will be two walks, the first on Sunday May 17 and the second on May 24 and both start at 1pm and both are free.

And if you miss the walks there is always the book, Hough End Hall The Story, available from Chorlton Book Shop.

Picture; down by Chorlton Brook, 2012, from the collection of Andrew Simpson