You know, that does now ring a bell and I think you're right. No idea when it became a hotel, and I don't think it was a "pub" type of establishment - more what they used to call a "private" hotel, a sort of b & b for commercial travellers, business people and the like who were staying in the area. I think it was being used for that purpose at least by the mid-1950s.

As to the "park", there never was an actual park, as far as I know. At the end of the 19th century, the stretch of road from West Timperley to Timperley station, previously known as "Timperley Lane", seems to have been renamed "Park Road". The stretch of the same road on the other side of the railway, towards the Timperley Village end, was known as "Wash Lane", and still had that name around 1910. Some time later, the whole road from West Timperley to the Village became "Park Road" - perhaps because it was gradually being built up with nice villas and the new residents thought "Wash Lane" an inelegant address?

My guess is that "Wash Lane" came as a consequence of frequent flooding from the adjacent low-lying boggy ground - the A56 through West Timperley and Sale was known as "the Washway" - later Washway Road - for the same reason.

All the other adjoining, "tributory" roads off Park Road were developed later, and would be likely to have taken their names from it.

Dear oldhall,

We'll make the correct identification "official" as soon as we can, and the updated location, title, grid reference and administrative area details will appear here in due course. We try to leave enough time for plenty of useful information to be gathered on these unlocated images, before collecting up the correct identifications. It is very helpful to have corroborative data such as a range of road names, building identifications and so on.

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I don't think so. Leys Road (it was unmade in the '50s) was the next road off Park Road west of Frieston Road in my day, and, though I don't go that way very often these days, the maps I've got still say the same. Unless the name's been changed recently?

Except that the spot you've tagged is south of the bridge!

But you're right: that patch of ground was just rough grassland for years. I don't think it was developed until the 1960s at the earliest.

You could be right. Your comment prompted me to a closer look, and I can now see what looks as if it could be an electric cable gantry just south of the bridge, beside Canal Road. Can't spot the one you say you can see at the station, though.

A later date may explain the presence of completed houses in Sylvan Avenue, which I thought were built slightly later than the mid-1920s.

I used to pass the place several times a week in the late '50s and early '60s, but time dulls the memory. But that's where the internet comes to the rescue.

From John Sherratt & Co. Ltd.'s website, in the "Tradition" section:

"The company was started in the 1880’s by John Sherratt and Ernest Hughes, trading as Antiquarian Booksellers. The partnership flourished and resulted in the birth of the famous Sherratt & Hughes bookshop in St Anne’s Square, Manchester.

By the turn of the century books publishing was added to the business and then printing equipment installed in the rear of the premises. In the 1920‘s printing had become a major part of the company and a large factory was opened in Timperley in the south of Manchester, which was equipped to produce books from typesetting to printing and case binding.

In 1947 the bookshop was sold to W H Smith Ltd and the company changed its name to John Sherratt & Son Ltd; it continued to be a major Manchester publisher and book printer to many London publishers."

Surprising to see that Hawthorn Road hasn't got its corner with Park Road filled in by the bank yet in 1927

Yes - this is the MSJ&A, not electrified until 1932.