Showing posts with label Chorlton in the 1850s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chorlton in the 1850s. Show all posts
Friday, 26 June 2026

Mr Gratrix's clay pipe lost in our garden in 1845

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The pipe found in the garden, 2014 It is not much of a piece of history but I found it in our front garden which makes it special and t...
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Thursday, 25 June 2026

Chorlton farmers ............. Mr and Mrs Bancroft farming at Park Brow from 1841

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Now I don’t have a picture of James Bancroft, but given that he was born in 1802 and spent his life at the plough I doubt he would have had...
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Tuesday, 16 June 2026

The lost woods of Chorlton …… and a mystery concerning Mrs Lydia Brown and John Holland

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We are looking out on John Holland’s Wood which stretched west along Chorlton Brook towards the Bowling Green Inn. John Holland's Wood, ...
Friday, 16 May 2025

A chance find and the beginnings of a story on Wilbraham Road

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Now this is a story that has yet to find an ending and in the telling will eventually reveal much about how and why Wilbraham Road follows ...
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Saturday, 3 February 2024

The tree …… Marsh Leach Meadow and Mr. William Whitelegg

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So, it started with a picture of the tree on Manchester Road beside the bus stop and the Co-op Undertakers. Tree shapes, 2022 It isn’t a par...
Friday, 26 January 2024

Princess Road …. Chorlton-cum-Hardy …. two mysteries .. only one solved

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Princess Road was off Neale Road and is now Pinewood Road. Princess Road, 1933 I came across it while searching for something else, and it w...
Thursday, 11 November 2021

Of clay pits ...... meandering streams …….. and plenty of ponds …… walking west of Martledge in 1854

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That stretch of Chorlton beyond the library heading west towards Longford Park will always be the “long roads” to me. Looking west across th...
Saturday, 9 October 2021

Making their home in Chorlton, Nu 1 the Cope Family

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Oak Bank in 1841 An occasional series about people who settled in Chorlton. Frederick Cope had moved here from Oxford Street in 1845....
Friday, 8 October 2021

Wash day in Chorlton in 1851

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Now the washing machine gave up on us recently. Sutton's Cottage, on the Row, 1851  now the site of the Launderette All of which ...
Saturday, 17 July 2021

One hundred years of one house in Chorlton part 124 ............ poaching returns to Chorlton

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The continuing story of the house Joe and Mary Ann Scott lived in for over 50 years and the families that have lived here since.* They cam...
Tuesday, 27 April 2021

If it’s Monday …… it’s washing day ……. keeping Chorlton clean in 1851

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O f course, I doubt people still stick to set days for set tasks, and the arrival of the washing machine has made any day wash day. Washing ...
Wednesday, 8 April 2020

So what did our farmers do in the spring of 1854 and who was Henry Stephens?

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Row Acre, now the Rec in the late spring of 2013 April and May can offer up bright sunny days which are all too deceptive because the a...
Wednesday, 1 August 2018

When you arrive too late ....... the curious building down a ginnel beside Silverwood Avenue part 1

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Now here is one of those “heads up” which everyone will nod in agreement but instantly forget. The garage in 2009 This is the works...
Thursday, 12 March 2015

Saving the home of Mr Sharpe on Beech Road

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Well it is a place with plenty of history which I have feared would soon be gone. 133 Beech Road survived a serious fire which destr...