Coming out into the daylight after a very
long time.
Stone setts on Demesne Road.
Copland who took the picture added "I imagine the original road was from Manley Hall to the demesne farm and was probably an unmetalled lane.
Maybe these sets were laid when S Brooks was creating his Whalley Range estate. 1870ish. Or do you think they're later?"
The road was there by 1894, along with its attractive villas, and I rather remember some research I did suggesting that the area was developed in the late 1860s, after Wilbraham Road and Alexander Road had been cut by the Egerton estate.
The OS map for 1854 suggests a lane heading in the right direction towards Dog House Farm, but I will investigate more closely.
Copland who took the picture added "I imagine the original road was from Manley Hall to the demesne farm and was probably an unmetalled lane.
Maybe these sets were laid when S Brooks was creating his Whalley Range estate. 1870ish. Or do you think they're later?"
The OS map for 1854 suggests a lane heading in the right direction towards Dog House Farm, but I will investigate more closely.
Location; Whalley Range
Picture; Demesne Road, 2020, courtesy of
Copland Smith, and one recovered from Beech Road, 2016, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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