All you ever wanted to know about Hough End Hall ……… But never knew who to ask …. The talk today

 Join me to celebrate the birthday of Hough End Hall today with Chorlton Good Neighbours. *

Happy birthday, Hough End Hall

Of course, I can’t be exactly sure that today 429 years ago Sir Nicholas Mosley threw open the doors to family, friends, and assorted guests but it will do for me.

Over an hour and a bit accompanied with heaps of pictures and maps there will be stories of the Elizabethan Hall including a special present from the first Queen Elizabeth, tales of avaricious land grabs, and dissolute family members, mixed with tales from its days as a farm and culminating with memories of a place for scary adventures and later of nights of good food amongst friends.

The birthday celebrations begin at 1.30pm, hosted by Chorlton Good Neighbours in St Wilbraham Ninians Church on Egerton Road South, today October 14th.

 Sir Nicholas Mosley, undated 

Location; Hough end hall at anytime between 1596 and now, and Wilbraham St Ninians Church, Egerton Road S, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester M21 0XJ

Picture; courtesy  of Peter Tipping, 2019, and the man himself, from Mosley, Sir Oswald, Family Memoirs, 1849, Printed for Private Circulation

*Chorlton Good Neighbours, https://chorltongoodneighbours.org/

* Wilbraham St Ninians Church, https://wilbrahamstninians.com/

Today ...stories of the Narnia lampost, four pubs and heaps more

 The History talk and walk is back.

Today we will be exploring tales of the odd, the scandalous and the bizarre taking in some local historic landmarks, more than a few interesting people, and of course our four local pubs.

The Narnia Lamppost, 2020

In the course of which we will look for the missing plaque to a murdered policeman in the Bowling Green, wonder why the Methodists were cheated of their Sunday school on the site of the Beech Inn, and ask who was Trevor at the Trevor Arms?  

Snow on the green, 1984

And we will end inside the Horse and Jockey who will be our hosts as we round off with tales of suspected murder, the arrest of a prize fighter and the man who stole the village green.

In between there will be that string quartet, the Narnia lamppost and myths of tunnels under the green from the Jockey to the church and on to the Bolwer

So meet on the village green by the Narnia Lamppost at 12.30 pm on December 15th and finish in the Horse and Jockey.

Tales in the Horse and Jockey, 2024

A free history talk and walk.

All welcome

Location Chorlton Green

Pictures, The Narnia lamppost, 2022, and inside the Horse and Jockey, 2024, from the collection of Andrew Simpson, and Chorlton Green in the snow, courtesy of Tony Walker, 1984