Now, the Greenfinch pub rather dominates the corner of Palatine Road and Lapwing Lane.
It was once a school for ladies, whose Principle was Miss Aurelia Hahnel.
She was busy expanding the minds of her students from 1878 to sometime between 1909 and 1911, by which time she was in her mid-sixties and may have decided that that was enough teaching for anyone.
The property was owned by the Midland Railway Company who seem to have bought it from a William Eastwood Green and looks to have been built in 1870. Mr. had an extensive portfolio of property in the area including the White Lion.
Aurelia Hahnel’s father was Austrian, and he is listed variously as a merchant, chemist, and baker. He died in 1900 in Boston in the USA and appears from the records to have been absent from the family from at least 1881.
It may just be that he was away during the years of the census, but that said, as yet Miss Aurelia is also absent from the 1861, 1871 and 1891 census records.
And for those who like a bit more history, one source records that it was once built as consulting rooms or small hospital by a doctor, for two of his daughters who failed to qualify”. *
I suspect this may refer to Mr. Thomas Ashton Goodfellow who as a GP, was living with his family in the property in 1911, but somewhere the story has lost something, because Mr. and Mrs. Goodfellow had three sons the eldest of which was just 8 in 1911.
The family appear still to be in the property when our doctor died in 1937.
Picture; the Greenfinch, from Manchester Pubs The Stories Behind the Doors Didsbury, Peter Topping & Andrew Simpson, 2019. Available from www.pubbooks.co.uk and local bookshops.
*WHAT?UB, https://whatpub.com/pubs/MAS/4207/greenfinch-west-didsbury
She was busy expanding the minds of her students from 1878 to sometime between 1909 and 1911, by which time she was in her mid-sixties and may have decided that that was enough teaching for anyone.
The property was owned by the Midland Railway Company who seem to have bought it from a William Eastwood Green and looks to have been built in 1870. Mr. had an extensive portfolio of property in the area including the White Lion.
Aurelia Hahnel’s father was Austrian, and he is listed variously as a merchant, chemist, and baker. He died in 1900 in Boston in the USA and appears from the records to have been absent from the family from at least 1881.
It may just be that he was away during the years of the census, but that said, as yet Miss Aurelia is also absent from the 1861, 1871 and 1891 census records.
And for those who like a bit more history, one source records that it was once built as consulting rooms or small hospital by a doctor, for two of his daughters who failed to qualify”. *
I suspect this may refer to Mr. Thomas Ashton Goodfellow who as a GP, was living with his family in the property in 1911, but somewhere the story has lost something, because Mr. and Mrs. Goodfellow had three sons the eldest of which was just 8 in 1911.
The family appear still to be in the property when our doctor died in 1937.
Picture; the Greenfinch, from Manchester Pubs The Stories Behind the Doors Didsbury, Peter Topping & Andrew Simpson, 2019. Available from www.pubbooks.co.uk and local bookshops.
*WHAT?UB, https://whatpub.com/pubs/MAS/4207/greenfinch-west-didsbury
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