Looking for Chorlton Row …… the new book ……

Those prolific purveyors of Chorlton’s past proudly announce the publication of nothing to do in chorlton, Down Beech Road Looking For Chorlton Row.

It is the third in the series of slim but fascinating collections of stories from where we live, and has been designed either to be read in front of the fire or walked.

And like its predecessors, "Chorlton Green and the Ees", and "Martledge Lost and Found", it is predicated on that simple idea that we offer up six local locations where you can stop and read about all there is to know about that spot.

They cost £4.99, are available from us or Chorlton Book shop and are packed full of Peter’s paintings, original photographs and stories from me.*

Our latest is a wander along Beech Road, which until the 1870s was called Chorlton Row, and we have decided to fix on the year 1848 to describe all you could have seen and more importantly who you would have to be polite to.

So here are tales of the blacksmith, the farmers, a few posh people and a look at familiar places as they would have been over a 170 years ago.

We can’t promise the smells, but through the magic of old newspapers you can listen into the conversations, of Mr. Higginbotham of  Chorlton Green, Mr. Bailey and Lydia Brown, as they talk about potato blight, caring for their fruit trees and a very nasty and poisonous bunch of trees.

Leaving you to look out for our next set of history walks planned for November 6^th and December 4^th.

*“Nothing to do in Chorlton” by Andrew Simpson & Peter Topping, is available from www.pubbooks.co.uk and also Chorlton Bookshop