A bottle from Chorlton and the search for Alfred Gordan Fineberg Leech

Now there is nothing more intriguing than a bottle dug out of the ground, which has sat in a disused refuse tip for perhaps a century.

And how much more intriguing when the bottle bears a name and came from Chorlton.

The bottle comes from  the collection of Jay Hurst who also has a number of porcelain jar tops from our own Harry Kemp.

Harry Kemp was a chemist with shops in Chorlton and Stretford, and this glass bottle also originated from a pharmacy, which belonged to Alfred Gordan Fineberg Leech.

But just where in Chorlton his shop was located has so far eluded me and to find it will involve a painstaking trawl of the directories.

I do know that he was born in 1887, that his father died and his mother remarried, and those two events occurred between 1891 and 1901 and like the location of the chemist shops, the exact dates will turn up.

That said I do know he married Hilda Walton in 1928 and died in 1977 in Aberconwy, Gwynedd, Wales, and left a substantial amount of money.

Alas at present that is all I have, except for the picture of the bottle, and a reference to him living in  52 Albert Road, Whalley Range in 1939.

Location; somewhere in Chorlton

Picture; chemist bottle, 2020, from the collection of Jay Hurst