Chorlton’s own Blue plaques …… join the project

So everywhere should have some blue plaques, and Chorlton Civic Society has launched a project to commemorate our historic buildings and notable residents.

They are not necessarily looking to remember the conventional “famous person” or the most elegant property, but people and buildings which are significant in our own history.

Like William Eric Lunt who lived on Sandy Lane and enlisted just one month after the outbreak of war in 1914, and died two years later on the Western Front, or the Red Cross volunteers who ran our three Auxiliary hospitals during the Great War.  Nor does it have to be just a reference to Chorlton at war.

It could include our own historian Thomas Ellwood who in the winter of 1885 into the spring of the following year wrote 25 articles about the history of Chorlton, or Mrs. Jane Redford who was the first Chorlton woman to be elected to Manchester City Council and only the second woman Councillor to sit in the Town Hall.

The first blue plaque has already been created and will soon be erected on the wall of the Bowling Green Hotel by its owner, Mark Canny to record that it is “one of the oldest pubs in Chorlton”.

Added to this the Civic Society is keen to ask residents the subject they would nominate for a blue plaque.

And the rest as they say is in the flyer below.

*Not forgetting John Lloyd who also wrote a book on Chorlton’s history, Harry Kemp of Kemp’s Corner and one of the first three Chorlton Councillors, along with Sarah Ann Nixon, Sarah Sutton, and Josiah Thomas Slugg