Fair sits the day for a walk through Chorlton's past at 2pm today*

There is still time to get your tickets for this history walk through our collective past.

The Narnia Lampost, 2024

It's a stroll down Beech Road which will reveal what life was like in a small rural community on the edge of Manchester during the early 19th century, and on the way we will  discover that essential piece of advice of just who did you have to be polite too?

Meet at the top of Beech Road at the junction with Barlow Moor Road at 2pm and join us for the walk via the Rec, the old village green and on to the Edge Theatre.

Chorlton Book Festival, 2026

And in between there will be the stories of the people, and the interesting, the bizarre, and more than a few silly events, and of course plenty of sound history.

Tickets are still available from https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-down-beech-road-in-the-summer-of-1848-tickets-1996447382865?aff=odcleoeventsincollection

And for just £11 not only will all this local history be revealed but at the Edge there will be a bevy of light refreshments in that historic building.

So today at 2 pm, from Beech Road at the junction with Barlow Moor Road, for an hour and a bit.

This event is part of Chorlton Book Festival**

Pictures; The Narnia Lamp post, 2024, from the collection of Andrew Simpson

*And for the curious the title is nicked from "Fair sits the wind for France"  which is the opening line from the 1606 poem "The Battle of Agincourt" by Michael Drayton and a nod to H.E.Bates and his 1944 novel "Fair Stood the Wind for France". 

 ** Chorlton Book Festival, September 17th to September 26th   https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/chorlton-book-festival-2026-4861494/