I am getting quite excited about Chorlton Arts which “aims to reconnect everything to do with art and the people of Chorlton [by promoting] art in, by and for the people of Chorlton and assist existing art facilities”.
The “primary aim is to bring together residents and venues active in the, Visual Arts, Literary Arts, Performing Arts, and Crafts at all levels facilitating creativity within the Chorlton Community”. *
Now being interested in all thing’s history, I thought I would reflect on those people who made their own contribution as artists, historians, or writers to the story of Chorlton.
Not all of them were born here or died here, and some had only a fleeting association with the township, but each in their different way made an impact.
The first is Nora Templar, Nora Templar who was a well-known historian and artist who wrote a series of articles about the township which were published in the St Clements parish magazine during the 1960s.
She had been born in 1910 and spent most of her life at Dog House Farm in what is now Whalley Range.
Dog House was over 300 years old when Nora moved there in 1910 and it was only demolished in 1960.
Her father Herbert was also talented an artist and some of his paintings are in the City’s collection.
It was from Dog House that Mary Moore set out in 1838 to sell farm produce at the Manchester markets only to be murdered on her way home. Nora remembered the “large barn and coach house which was sheltered from the north and east winds” and the “cobbled yard, pump and trough close to the kitchen and the well” all of which would have been familiar to Mary Moore.
As well as writing about the history of the township she witnessed some of the key events during the 20th century, including the Royal Agricultural Show held at Hough End fields in 1916, the Royal Lancashire Shows of 1924 and 1937, and the first aircraft to land at Hough End.
Location; Chorlton
Pictures; Harvest Festival October 1981, Nora Templar from the Lloyd collection and an extract from Chorlton-cum-Hardy At Work and Play, St Clements Parish Magazine, November 1961
**About Chorlton Arts, http://chorltonartsfestival-org.stackstaging.com/?fbclid=IwAR25MbfqNpd1NeX6Qp1ROLnXYfbvSgldVo4eT-XrpDJk8iN5846McGYZaBY
Now being interested in all thing’s history, I thought I would reflect on those people who made their own contribution as artists, historians, or writers to the story of Chorlton.
Not all of them were born here or died here, and some had only a fleeting association with the township, but each in their different way made an impact.
She had been born in 1910 and spent most of her life at Dog House Farm in what is now Whalley Range.
Her father Herbert was also talented an artist and some of his paintings are in the City’s collection.
It was from Dog House that Mary Moore set out in 1838 to sell farm produce at the Manchester markets only to be murdered on her way home. Nora remembered the “large barn and coach house which was sheltered from the north and east winds” and the “cobbled yard, pump and trough close to the kitchen and the well” all of which would have been familiar to Mary Moore.
As well as writing about the history of the township she witnessed some of the key events during the 20th century, including the Royal Agricultural Show held at Hough End fields in 1916, the Royal Lancashire Shows of 1924 and 1937, and the first aircraft to land at Hough End.
Location; Chorlton
Pictures; Harvest Festival October 1981, Nora Templar from the Lloyd collection and an extract from Chorlton-cum-Hardy At Work and Play, St Clements Parish Magazine, November 1961
**About Chorlton Arts, http://chorltonartsfestival-org.stackstaging.com/?fbclid=IwAR25MbfqNpd1NeX6Qp1ROLnXYfbvSgldVo4eT-XrpDJk8iN5846McGYZaBY
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