Looking for the past ……… amongst the bus stops and shelters

It is a familiar enough place, which before it was the bus terminus was destination of trams and known as Chorlton Office.

And as such dates back to the early years of the last century.

But before that, perhaps for a century this was the eastern end of the garden belonging to the Holt family.

They had taken up residence in the big house in the 1830s, while retaining their business and town house in the fashionable St John Street.

And they were to remain here until the last of the family died in 1908 and the house and its extensive grounds were put up for sale.

Manchester Corporation bought a chunk of the eastern end of the garden in order to widen Barlow Moor Road and build a terminus for its trams.

The rest of the Holt story is here on the blog, including pictures of the house and their town home.

Their's was a large house set in grounds which stretched from Barlow Moor Road to High Lane, down High Lane almost to Cross Road and then south to Beech Road.

Location; Chorlton-cum-Hardy

Picture; the terminus, 2020, from the collection of Andrew Simpson