Back with Mr Pooley’s fine Buildings, just short of their 200th birthday

Now I am back with Pooley’s Buildings, which sit on Princess Street, off Chester Road.*

They date from 1820 and still have an elegance about them which is nothing to how they would have appeared when new.

And Andy Robertson ventured back  to photograph the rear of the building and in doing so captured something of just how grand they were and indeed still are.

In the 1820s the houses looked out on a large open area boarded by trees, and were set in two large gardens which ran down to the Corn Brook with Corn Brook Park situated directly behind.

This is the fourth of the stories on the properties, which have wandered over Mr Pooley’s business interests, including his portfolio of properties, his factories and his bankruptcy and looked at the history of the property which at one stage belonged to the army and is now back in residential use.

The romantic in me would love to think that at one stage he walked the gardens, but I am realistic to know they may have looked very different.

In fact the OS map for the 1850s shows that they had lots of trees, with decorative borders and other features.

And that just leaves me with the water pump, which may date from Mr Pooley’s time or was added later.

Location; Hulme













Pictures; Pooley's Buildings, 2018, from the collection of Andy Robertson


 *Pooley's Buildings, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Pooley%27s%20Buildings