The slaughter house ..... the lost pond and heaps more ....... walking Beech Road's past ..... today at 1pm

Now I am back with those ever-popular history walks which wander down Chorlton’s past.

Mr. Higginbotham ploughing Row Acre, Beech Road, 1894

They have been a feature of Sunday afternoons for a more than a decade, take an hour and offer up a host of interesting people from the posh to the very un-posh, deliver heaps of little-known stories and along the way reveal the secrets of the buildings we inhabit.

So, on December 4^th it will be the turn of Beech Road, and in the company of a distinguished couple of authors and lots of interested residents we will walk the past from Barlow Moor Road, down to Chorlton Green.

The stroll will introduce you to the “slaughterhouse”, a lost fishpond, a handful of rebellious school students and the mysterious clay pipe.

Fans of the walks will instantly recognise that mix of silly stories, sound historical accounts of when we were a rural community and that bit of outrageous entrepreneurial flare which links the walks to the publication of yet another Simpson and Topping history book.

Mr. Gratrix's clay pipe, found on Beech Road,  2014

This one which is in the series of "nothing to do in chorlton" is entitled "Down Beech Road Looking for Chorlton Row".

All you need to do is sign up .....pay your fiver and you get the book for free. 

Or if you have already bought the book, bring it along as your free pass for The Walk.

It couldn’t be simpler.

So if you enjoyed our Narnia tale on the Green, shuddered at the horrible murders of Mary More and Francis Deacon and were incensed at the Chorlton Burial Scandal then this walk follows the tradition.

Details of how to sign up for the walk are on our poster, along with how to contact us.*

I'm coming on the walk, the Rec, 2022

Location; Beech Road

Pictures; Ploughing Row Acre before it became the Recreation Ground, 1896  Mr Higginbotham's farmyard, circa 1880s, from the collection of William Higginbotham, Mr. Gratrix's clay pipe, 2014  When litter can be silly, Chorlton, 2022, from the collection of Andrew Simpson

*“nothing to do in chorlton Down Beech Road Looking for Chorlton Row” by Andrew Simpson & Peter Topping, costs £4.99, and is available from www.pubbooks.co.uk and Chorlton Bookshop