Now there are a lot of lost road names in Chorlton.
I say lost but most are just name
changes.
I guess it was matter of eliminating duplicate names which appeared elsewhere in the city.
I guess it was matter of eliminating duplicate names which appeared elsewhere in the city.
So Regent became Reeves, Crescent became Crossland and Oak
Bank changed to Silverwood Avenue.
Now the most obvious moment to make the change was when we
elected to join the city in 1904, but the old names persisted beyond 1911 and
may have stretched into the 1960s.
It is one of these little puzzles that really can only be
solved by sitting down with the street directories and working through them year
by year until the changes appear. Or
waiting for someone to remember when the new road name went up.
So if there is anyone who wants to come forward please do.
In the meantime just possibly there might be an easier answer in this photograph from May 1959 of Oak Bank Avenue, which is now Silverwood Avenue.
Oak Bank may well have its got its name from a large house
also called Oak Bank directly opposite on Barlow Moor Road.
It was set back
from the main road and hidden in an extensive garden and orchard surrounded by
meadow and arable land. Once the home of William Morton, by 1847 it was owned
by the wine merchant Frederick Cope, who lived there from 1850 to 1855.
The estate ran from
the junction of Wilbraham Road and Barlow Moor Road south down to Oak
Avenue, then back following the line of Zetland Road to Corkland and up to what
is Wilbraham Road.
It may be that the name was changed to avoid confusion with
Oak Avenue, either way the date seems to have been later than 1959 unless of
course A.H.Downes who took the picture in the April of that year just read old “late
road sign.”
And here is the challenge for people to collect and send their own road name changes. I can think of a few more but I bet there are even more.
And here is the challenge for people to collect and send their own road name changes. I can think of a few more but I bet there are even more.
Picture; December April 1959, A.H.Downes m17489, courtesy of
Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass
Interesting! I live on Silverwood Avenue, and there is a second sign that reads 'Oak Avenue', not 'Oak Bank Avenue'. I wonder if this was the result of said confusion?
ReplyDeleteCORKLAND ROAD WAS CALLED CAVENDISH ROAD
ReplyDeleteIn 1915 Zetland Rd was called Holland Rd and Corkland Rd was named Cavendish Rd. No 2 Brundrett Rd existed then. source 1915 OS map.
ReplyDeleteI think Regent became Reeves in the 70s. I seem to remember a letter from the council in with our deeds. I’ll search it out to confirm.
ReplyDeleteYes when l briefly lived on Rêves in the 70s the sign for Régent wa still there
ReplyDeleteYep
ReplyDeleteKingshill road was previously Highfield road guess year of name change 1960s
ReplyDeleteRansfield Road was called Richmond Road till late 60s early 70s.
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