epw017411 ENGLAND (1927). Wythenshawe Road and the area around the junction with Altrincham Road, Baguley, 1927

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Pennawd [EPW017411] Wythenshawe Road and the area around the junction with Altrincham Road, Baguley, 1927
Cyfeirnod EPW017411
Dyddiad 8-March-1927
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Enw lle BAGULEY
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Gwlad ENGLAND
Dwyreiniad / Gogleddiad 380059, 389576
Hydred / Lledred -2.2999625177923, 53.402368299961
Cyfeirnod Grid Cenedlaethol SJ801896

Pinnau

Lilybank (demolished)

John Ellis
Tuesday 21st of October 2014 05:57:46 PM
Beech Avenue (now Briarwood Avenue; the first council houses ever to be built in Baguley, by the then Bucklow Rural District Council)

John Ellis
Tuesday 31st of July 2012 10:35:37 PM
Warrington-Stockport railway line

John Ellis
Sunday 22nd of July 2012 11:27:07 AM
Railway View (demolished)

John Ellis
Sunday 22nd of July 2012 11:26:09 AM
Baguley View (demolished)

John Ellis
Sunday 22nd of July 2012 11:25:13 AM
Moorland House (formerly Baguley Moor House - demolished 1950s)

John Ellis
Sunday 22nd of July 2012 11:23:23 AM
Arden Lodge (demolished; name perpetuated in the road name of the houses built on the site)

John Ellis
Sunday 22nd of July 2012 11:19:34 AM
I went to nearby Sandilands primary school 1957-1963 where a young buddy was John Hall, who lived with his family at Arden Lodge. I remember playing in the orchard when two surveyors came to the plot and we ran to his mother to tell her two men were in the garden.

I wonder where John is now? I last came across his name in 1971 when a girlfriend in Chorlton was a member of the same amateur dramatic society.

Brierley Stubbs
Sunday 20th of January 2013 04:34:39 PM
Butcher Farm

John Ellis
Tuesday 17th of July 2012 10:00:44 PM
Fir Tree Farm

John Ellis
Thursday 5th of July 2012 10:43:15 PM
Footpath to Gratrix Lane, Sale Moor

John Ellis
Thursday 5th of July 2012 10:40:40 PM
Baguley Lane (to Sale Moor)

John Ellis
Thursday 5th of July 2012 10:39:16 PM
Lawton Moor (demolished 1930s)

John Ellis
Sunday 1st of July 2012 03:37:42 PM
Hazelhurst (demolished 1930s to build the Lawton Moor estate)

John Ellis
Sunday 1st of July 2012 12:09:13 PM
Oldhouse Farm

John Ellis
Sunday 1st of July 2012 12:00:50 PM
Moor Nook, with Sale Moor beyond

John Ellis
Sunday 1st of July 2012 12:00:10 PM
Baguley bottom village

John Ellis
Sunday 1st of July 2012 11:58:58 AM
Baguley top village

John Ellis
Sunday 1st of July 2012 11:58:05 AM

John Ellis
Sunday 1st of July 2012 11:57:17 AM
Nan Nook Wood

John Ellis
Sunday 1st of July 2012 11:56:40 AM
Altrincham Road (A560)

John Ellis
Wednesday 27th of June 2012 07:50:51 AM
Woodwise Lane

John Ellis
Wednesday 27th of June 2012 07:48:48 AM
Gardener's Arms pub

John Ellis
Wednesday 27th of June 2012 07:47:22 AM
St John the Divine Church School (demolished 1960s)

John Ellis
Wednesday 27th of June 2012 07:46:27 AM

John Ellis
Wednesday 27th of June 2012 07:45:11 AM

John Ellis
Wednesday 27th of June 2012 07:44:35 AM
Wythenshawe Road (B5167)

John Ellis
Wednesday 27th of June 2012 07:43:46 AM

John Ellis
Wednesday 27th of June 2012 07:42:55 AM
Butcher Lane

John Ellis
Wednesday 27th of June 2012 07:42:15 AM

John Ellis
Wednesday 27th of June 2012 07:41:38 AM

Cyfraniadau Grŵp

Yes John Ellis. Old age creeps up whilst you aren't watching. In 4th year at Sandilands primary we went on a school trip to York. We caught the steam train at Brooklands Station - non stop to York! Another buddy in those days was James Renshaw who lived in the cottages on a short lane off Shady lane next to the station. We spent hours train spotting from Shady Lane bridge. I guess you are local too?

Brierley Stubbs
Monday 13th of April 2015 08:03:10 PM
I think those cottages alongside and just south of Shady Lane railway bridge were older than the railway, and the cobbled lane which they fronted was the original line of Shady Lane, before the railway and the station were built and the bridge constructed.



Yes, I grew up just west of Brooklands Road, right on the Timperley border. I was an engine-spotter from Shady Lane bridge too, back when I was 11 or 12, after which I got a bit bored with it. That would have been 1957/8. It was a good spot, because you could squeeze through the fence on to a sort of triangular platform immediately above the line, which had the advantage of a really low wall allowing optimum viewing of trains.



Rather less worry about health and safety back then. Maybe we stood there side by side, with our pencils and little books?!

John Ellis
Monday 13th of April 2015 08:03:10 PM
My eldest son, Gary, lives in an apartment on the site of Moor Farm on Moor Road. They were built 2006-10. Before that it was the site of West Wythenshawe Technical college where I did my A-Levels, and before that, Moor Farm until the 1950s. Opposite, you can see on the photo the Moor Ponds where as kids we would go to catch tadpoles and watch them turn into frogs in a bucket of water in the garden.

A running joke with my son whenever and EVERY time we visit is; "did I ever tell you that as a boy I used fish for tadpoles at the ponds opposite . . . ."? YES DAD!!!!

Brierley Stubbs
Wednesday 1st of April 2015 05:19:40 PM
I get the same sort of response in my family when I say I recall catching steam-hauled trains at Baguley station where the platforms and the waiting rooms were still lit by gas ... !



Just how and and when did we imperceptibly morph into the nostalgic grandfolks saying "Did I ever tell you ...?" and "I remember when ..."

John Ellis
Wednesday 1st of April 2015 05:19:40 PM
This is probably the only remaining photo of Arden Lodge. There may have been more but they have not surfaced in recent years. The House had stables at the back and a billiard room above which my father used as a workshop.

John Hall
Wednesday 25th of March 2015 06:47:52 PM
Hi



I lived at Arden Lodge, one of the houses referred to below and would like to get in touch with Brierley Stubbs but there is no reply button visible on my screen.

John Hall
Wednesday 25th of March 2015 10:45:22 AM
Much of the area covered by this photo is now changed beyond recognition.The area in the centre alongside Altrincham Road is now an industrial estate and retail park, and parts are now in their second phase of redevelopment. Sandy Lane no longer exists, being entirely built over - partly by a vast Tesco hypermarket.The Metrolink light rail extension to Wythenshawe and the airport is currently being constructed along Moor Road.



At the time when this photograph was taken, Baguley was not in Manchester, but in the Bucklow Rural District area of Cheshire.

John Ellis
Tuesday 21st of October 2014 03:44:25 PM
So at the time of this photo, were the people living in these dispersed houses involved in agriculture, or other jobs?

Whittocks
Sunday 1st of July 2012 01:09:36 PM
The bigger houses such as Baguley Moor House and Arden Lodge, with their spacious grounds, were built on previously agricultural land as country homes by prosperous local business men enabled to live further away from their works and factories by improvements in transport, particularly the coming of the railways.



In this area the opening of the Manchester - Altrincham railway line in 1849 was the beginning of this trend, reinforced by the construction of the east-west line from Stockport to Warrington and Liverpool in 1866. A local entrepreneur bought land south of Sale, persuaded the railway company to open an extra station - "Brooklands"; named after him! - and constructed a new road in the hope of cashing in on the fashion.



Some preferred to buy old instead of building new: for example another contributor to this site recalls that around the beginning of the twentieth century his great-grandfather, who owned the Demmings Bleach and Dye works in Cheadle, bought Sharston Hall, a smallish historic house of minor local squires about two miles to the east of Baguley, from the Worthington family who had previously owned it. No doubt he thought it was a property befitting his station and success in life.



The smaller properties seem to have been mostly the farms and market gardens of tenants of the Wythenshawe estate, and the cottages and terraces of their farm workers - plus the inevitable odd self-employed shopkeeper, blacksmith, &c.

John Ellis
Tuesday 21st of October 2014 03:44:25 PM