A short series featuring objects which tell a story of Chorlton in just a few paragraphs and a challenge for people to suggest some that are personal to their stories.
I have chosen the tram terminus sometime around 1928. Trams took the township out of the era of the horse drawn coach into the 20th century. In 1903 the route from Belle Vue via Brooks’ Bar and Upper Chorlton Road was extended to West Point at Seymour Grove and four years later was extended again to Lane End,the junction of Sandy Lane and Barlow Moor Road. And in that year of 1928 Manchester trams carried 328 million passengers on 953 trams via 46 routes and along 292 miles of track. We had indeed become part of the city.
Picture; from the Lloyd collection
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