I have to confess I have never studied these fine houses on Lapwing Lane, but they are impressive and typical of the houses which began to go up in the first half of the 20th century.
They were part of Barbarella’s essential walk yesterday and I began to wonder when they were built.
They do not appear on the OS map for 1893, but are there forty years later.
A trawl of the directories for 1911 show five properties along the stretch from Palatine Road, to Wilmslow Road, with names like The Chalet, Woodside, Larena, Cranleigh, and Limehurst.
But just where along the road these were situated I have yet to find out, but some may still have those names on the gateposts, so it is down to a little detective work.
So that is it for now ……. leaving me to reflect that these were the future of Didsbury back at the beginning of the last century.
And as ever, complimenting two maps is that that old essay title "contrast and compare".
It was an exercise beloved of teachers of English when I was growing up in the 1950s and 60s.
It may have been designed to get us to think, analyse and describe, but I suspect many were just time fillers.
Still I enjoyed writing them.
Location; Didsbury
Pictures; Walking Barlow Moor Road, 2020, from the collection of Barbarella Bonvento, and Lapwing lane,, 1093, Hall Street, from the OS map of South Lancashire, 1893, courtesy of Digital Archives Association, http://digitalarchives.co.uk/ and Lapwing Lane in 1933the OS map of Manchester & Salford, 1933
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| Lapwing Lane, 2020 |
They do not appear on the OS map for 1893, but are there forty years later.
A trawl of the directories for 1911 show five properties along the stretch from Palatine Road, to Wilmslow Road, with names like The Chalet, Woodside, Larena, Cranleigh, and Limehurst.
But just where along the road these were situated I have yet to find out, but some may still have those names on the gateposts, so it is down to a little detective work.
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| Lapwing Lane, 1893 |
And as ever, complimenting two maps is that that old essay title "contrast and compare".
It was an exercise beloved of teachers of English when I was growing up in the 1950s and 60s.
It may have been designed to get us to think, analyse and describe, but I suspect many were just time fillers.
Still I enjoyed writing them.
Location; Didsbury
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| Lapwing Lane, 1933 |
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