What will be the fate of Mr & Mrs Helm's fine home on the corner of Zetland Road?

Mr & Mrs Helm's house in 2015

I just wonder what Mr and Mrs Helm would have made of the fate of their fine house on the corner of Zetland and Sandy Lane.

The house dates from around 1907 and William and his wife Eva Elizabeth were there from 1911.

Just six years earlier they had been in Shropshire, and may have moved to Manchester after 1909 and just possibly were the first residents of the house.

He was a “medical practitioner” which hardly does him justice as he also described himself as a "surgeon, M.B., Ch.B. Vict."

Holland Road circa 1920

He had married Eva in 1903 and they had two daughters, one born in 1904 and the other born two years later.

And like many families of their social standing they employed  employed a cook, a governess and a housemaid.

Back then this was Holland Road only changing its name like so many in the city sometime in the 1960s.

Now there will be people who know more about the house and its occupants.

All boarded up, 2015

For as a long as I can remember it has been divided into flats.  In the summer of last year the neighbouring property was up for sale and today both are empty and the builder’s boards have gone up.

There is no application in to redevelop so I rather think we shall have to wait.

Pictures; the house in 2015, from the collection of Andrew Simpson, and circa 1920s from the Lloyd Collection