epw017396 ENGLAND (1927). Floats Road and environs, Baguley, 1927

Recently passing this way for the first time in quite a while, I noticed that the old congregational church now seems to have vanished, along with the nearby last remaining traces of the former junction of Floats Road with Altrincham Road.

This half-timbered historic house was built around 1540 by Robert Tatton of Chester, and remained the home of the Tatton family for almost four centuries. A year before this picture was taken, his successor, another Robert Tatton, sold the extensive estate to Manchester Corporation for overspill housing, so this series of photographs show the area on the eve of an era of unprecedented change, which at this point had not quite begun.