epw017410 ENGLAND (1927). The River Mersey at Didsbury Golf Course and Millgate Farm, East Didsbury, 1927

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Title [EPW017410] The River Mersey at Didsbury Golf Course and Millgate Farm, East Didsbury, 1927
Reference EPW017410
Date 8-March-1927
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Place name EAST DIDSBURY
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 384223, 389875
Longitude / Latitude -2.2373411679334, 53.405197077267
National Grid Reference SJ842899

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I'm interested to understand what building this was? It has since been demolished and is different in size and period from the rest of the buildings.

IanWeinstock
Tuesday 29th of December 2020 03:03:36 PM
The lane led up to a bridge over the railway and then on to School Lane. It was known locally by us kids as 'The Old Bridge' because it was never made up. The lane was closed one day a year to preserve the owners rights in law.

didsburybloke
Monday 7th of October 2019 10:19:54 PM
Known locally by us kids as 'the old bridge' because it was never made up. The lane was closed one day a year to preserve the owners rights.

didsburybloke
Monday 7th of October 2019 10:16:10 PM
Dalston Drive. Parrs Wood Road was built to the right of the houses on an embankment to clear the railway line.

didsburybloke
Monday 7th of October 2019 10:11:18 PM
Dalston Drive.

didsburybloke
Monday 7th of October 2019 10:06:54 PM
while they were digging up what was to become the roundabout, an unexplded bomb was found adjacent to the Tennis Club

darkdays
Saturday 17th of November 2018 10:27:36 AM
Sandhurst Road

John Ellis
Monday 23rd of February 2015 01:08:01 PM
Future site (1960's) of Didsbury Teachers College.

thirteen
Sunday 22nd of February 2015 06:31:52 PM
This shows the route of an old footpath whch ran from School Lane to Wilmslow Road down what is now Parrs Wood Avenue. The houses at the top of the avenue are a later date (and different style) to the others. The developers had to wait until the path could be closed and built over, presumably when Parrs Wood Road was laid out.

tony.g
Friday 14th of June 2013 11:03:51 PM

chuffmeister
Friday 15th of March 2013 11:32:55 PM

John Ellis
Saturday 13th of October 2012 05:56:51 PM
"The Towers" - now demolished and replaced by a business park.

John Ellis
Saturday 13th of October 2012 05:53:01 PM
The Towers, which was designed by Thomas Worthington and built between 1868 and 1872, it still very much in existence, and most certainly has not been demolished.



The original building is clearly visible on Google Earth.

Tony Nelson
Friday 28th of November 2014 09:35:54 AM

John Ellis
Friday 12th of October 2012 05:40:04 PM
Parr's Wood Avenue

John Ellis
Friday 12th of October 2012 05:38:27 PM
Glass houses and fields owned by W Rogerson (Didsbury) Ltd a nursery business based at Willow Bank Farm.

Merlin
Friday 12th of October 2012 03:51:01 PM
I don't remember Willow Bank Farm when it was still standing, but I lived in Didsbury between 1997 and 2007 and grew up on the borders of Baguley, Brooklands and Timperley in the '50s and '60s, so even back then I knew the Didsbury area vaguely.



But I still have a collection of local maps which I bought in the 1950s, as well as a number of even older ones that I picked up one way and another. That's one way of identifying farms and houses long gone. The other is the Chester Record Office's superb website - search "Cheshire Archives and Local Studies" and then click "Tithe Maps Online" - designed to make the Tithe Maps of the 1830s and '40s accessible, but which also has the 1875 and 1910 OS maps on line, and all can be compared with a modern street map, on parallel panes. Didsbury's not Cheshire, of course, but several of the on-line maps cover areas on the Lancashire side of the Mersey for a mile or two north, including the whole of Didsbury.



I'd recommend the site to anyone interested in the local history of the area which is so fascinatingly brought to life by the "Britain from Above" photographs.

John Ellis
Friday 12th of October 2012 05:33:06 PM
Fletcher Moss Gardens

paul296
Thursday 12th of July 2012 12:09:41 AM

John Ellis
Tuesday 10th of July 2012 12:11:34 AM

John Ellis
Tuesday 10th of July 2012 12:10:50 AM
Didsbury Lodge

John Ellis
Tuesday 10th of July 2012 12:09:42 AM
Wesleyan College (now Manchester Metropolitan University)

John Ellis
Tuesday 10th of July 2012 12:07:25 AM
Will also become Didsbury Teachers College in the 1960's, 70's and 80's together with land to it's right.

thirteen
Sunday 22nd of February 2015 06:29:00 PM
St Paul's Methodist Church

John Ellis
Tuesday 10th of July 2012 12:05:38 AM
St James's Parish Church, the "Old Cock" and "Didsbury" pubs - the original centre of Didsbury village

John Ellis
Tuesday 10th of July 2012 12:04:42 AM
Also the setting for the early part of Howard Spring's "My Son, My Son"

chuffmeister
Friday 15th of March 2013 11:30:47 PM

John Ellis
Tuesday 10th of July 2012 12:01:52 AM

John Ellis
Tuesday 10th of July 2012 12:01:18 AM

John Ellis
Tuesday 10th of July 2012 12:00:44 AM

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:59:41 PM

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:59:11 PM
Underbank Farm (demolished; now a sports ground)

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:57:16 PM
Willowbank Farm (demolished)

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:55:42 PM
Parr's Wood Road

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:52:23 PM
This is Kingston Road. Parrs Wood Road wasn't built until the 1930s

Tony Nelson
Friday 28th of November 2014 09:31:31 AM

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:51:37 PM
Wilmslow Road (A5145)

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:49:55 PM
Catterick Road

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:49:03 PM

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:48:07 PM
Wilmslow Road, Didsbury village

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:47:16 PM
Ford Bank (now demolished)

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:46:03 PM
Simon's Bridge

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:45:23 PM
Didsbury Golf Club: club house

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:44:46 PM

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:43:55 PM
Sandhurst Road

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:42:35 PM
Manchester Central-Stockport Tiviot Dale/Cheadle Heath/Derby/London St Pancras railway line

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:41:59 PM

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:40:17 PM

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:39:14 PM
School Lane Farm, Didsbury

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:38:36 PM
Styal loop railway line

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:36:43 PM
Parr's Wood Road

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:35:53 PM
East Didsbury railway station

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:34:54 PM
Kingsway (now A34; then newly constructed)

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:32:50 PM
the original A34 was Wilmslow road,through Cheadle, up Schools Hill and through Long Lane etc past Cheadle Royal Mental Hospital which is also featured on this site. Kingsway Extension which was the bit from Parrs Wood ( The Gateway pub) to the river, ended in a roundabout, but was always intended to be part of a trunk road to the south ( some of which has finally happened!) the bridge over the mersey and the extension through Gatley to schools hill (Cheadle By Pass) opened in 1959. saw my first road accident on the bridge on the first day!

darkdays
Saturday 17th of November 2018 08:57:05 AM

John Ellis
Monday 9th of July 2012 11:29:53 PM

User Comment Contributions

Thanks to Tony Nelson for both of his corrections; checking more carefully, I can see he's right - I'd incorrectly marked Kingston Road as Parrs Wood Road. I had thought that "the Towers" was gone under the office redevelopment, but hadn't checked it out - as Tony's right about Kingston Road, I'm sure he's correct about "the Towers" too!

John Ellis
Tuesday 23rd of December 2014 06:10:51 PM