The story of Withington in just twenty objects, chosen at random and delivered in a couple of paragraphs.
This is Hough End Hall, that Elizabethan manor house.*
It was in Withington but is so close to the border with Chorlton, that almost every historian since John Booker in 1853 has included it in their accounts of Chorlton-cum-Hardy.
It served as a fine home to the grand Mosley family until it was sold to the Egerton’s in the mid 18th century who rented it out to tenant farmers which was its story for 250 or so years.
During the early 20th century its future seemed uncertain, with the Corporation wanting variously to demolish it for a new "super road" or transform it into an arts centre.
It was finally sold to a local Chorlton farmer, who sold it on to a developer, and for a while it was a restatraunt with a brief spell as offices and is now a community centre.
Pictures; Hough End Hall in 1849, from The Family Memoirs, Sir Oswald Mosley, 1849
*Hough End Hall; https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Hough%20End%20Hall
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| Hough End Hall, 1849 |
It was in Withington but is so close to the border with Chorlton, that almost every historian since John Booker in 1853 has included it in their accounts of Chorlton-cum-Hardy.
It served as a fine home to the grand Mosley family until it was sold to the Egerton’s in the mid 18th century who rented it out to tenant farmers which was its story for 250 or so years.
During the early 20th century its future seemed uncertain, with the Corporation wanting variously to demolish it for a new "super road" or transform it into an arts centre.
It was finally sold to a local Chorlton farmer, who sold it on to a developer, and for a while it was a restatraunt with a brief spell as offices and is now a community centre.
Pictures; Hough End Hall in 1849, from The Family Memoirs, Sir Oswald Mosley, 1849
*Hough End Hall; https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Hough%20End%20Hall
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