All you ever wanted to know about Chorlton's past ... today at the Library

 Yep .... all you ever wanted to know but never knew who to ask.

So today at the Library starting at 2pm you can ramble through the story of Chorlton.

We will start with the promise to build a library made when we voted to join Manchester in 1904.

It took ten years and along the way we got a temporary one on Oswald Road but that promise was fulfilled.

It stands on the site of a farm which is a reminder of our rural past, and which pretty much vanished during a period of frenetic house building.

So complete was the urbanisation that the old name Martlege was lost within two generations and the area became known as New Chorlton to distinguish it from Old Chorlton which is the area around the village green and Beech Road.

And the rest and plenty more will be revealed at 2 today in the Library.

Location; Chorlton Library, Manchester Road

Picture; the refurbished Library, 2025 from the collection of Andrew Simpson