EPW041648 ENGLAND (1933). New housing estate at Haveley Road and Alders Road, Wythenshawe, 1933

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Title [EPW041648] New housing estate at Haveley Road and Alders Road, Wythenshawe, 1933
Reference EPW041648
Date June-1933
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Place name WYTHENSHAWE
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 382264, 388248
Longitude / Latitude -2.2667195686717, 53.390508925598
National Grid Reference SJ823882

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Hollyhedge Road

John Ellis
Sunday 5th of January 2014 01:12:00 PM
Nettlebarn Road

John Ellis
Sunday 5th of January 2014 01:11:35 PM

John Ellis
Sunday 5th of January 2014 01:10:22 PM
Barncroft Gardens

John Ellis
Sunday 5th of January 2014 01:09:08 PM

John Ellis
Sunday 5th of January 2014 01:07:25 PM
Moat Road Benchill

HOOD
Tuesday 20th of August 2013 08:35:27 PM
Moat Road later build then continued up to the now Gladeside Road (late Greenwood) and Cook's Farm.

HOOD
Tuesday 20th of August 2013 08:42:11 PM
This area became part of Honford Road

HOOD
Tuesday 20th of August 2013 08:33:26 PM
When Haveley Circle shops were demolished after a short life of 30 years, this house was turned into a small 'corner' grocery shop for a few years to serve the needs of residents nearby. The shop was run by a Mr Ronnie Coley who had one of the shops before they were demolished

HOOD
Tuesday 20th of August 2013 08:28:18 PM
Broadoak Road used as part of a bus route from Civic Centre Wythenshawe to Manchester Piccadilly

HOOD
Tuesday 20th of August 2013 08:19:03 PM
This house property was used as a 'BACK STREET BOOKIES' in 1940's into 1950's

HOOD
Tuesday 20th of August 2013 08:15:28 PM
Cook's Farm lasted here until demolished 1952 for parade of shops with flats above. The flats above were removed 1980's and left as single level of small retail shops

HOOD
Tuesday 20th of August 2013 08:12:52 PM
The name of this farm is Haveley Hey.

John Ellis
Sunday 5th of January 2014 01:05:48 PM
Prefab shops (4) built here at start of WW11 and remained in business until 1960

HOOD
Tuesday 20th of August 2013 07:49:27 PM
Harry H Corbett of Steptoe and Son fame lived about here for a time when young.

HOOD
Tuesday 20th of August 2013 07:46:23 PM
Nice parade of 8 shops with flats above built here in 1950's only lasted until 1980's due to no parking provision being made when built - now a nice play park for children

HOOD
Tuesday 20th of August 2013 07:40:13 PM
Home guard used this house property during WW11 as a meeting centre.

HOOD
Tuesday 20th of August 2013 07:23:42 PM
The house referred to as a meeting place for the Home Guard at the Rushey Road School entrance was actually the Home Guard Headquarters. The "meeing place" or Drill Hall was in the School Hall. I went on many patrols into the country across Greenwood Rd. looking for parachutists and Germans who had been shot down.

Samcree
Tuesday 10th of February 2015 08:27:53 PM
site of Benchill Infant & Junior School

HOOD
Tuesday 20th of August 2013 07:21:19 PM

User Comment Contributions

Taken at the same time as the previous two shots, this picture shows the first stages of construction of what became the largest of the pre-war Manchester public housing developments on Wythenshawe estate land. By the outbreak of the war, most of the open country between the Northen Etchells township hamlets of Sharston Green in the north and Brownley Green in the south had been built on.



This early development was on land on and adjacent to Lower Haveley Hey, the site of which lies almost exactly under the circle on Haveley Road. At the top of the picture, and with the camera looking almost due south, Haveley Hey (Cook's Farm) is the one relic of the old rural scene still remaining on this shot. This housing estate ultimately got the name of "Benchill", after a large farm of that name (Benchall on very old maps) a couple of fields north-east of Lower Haveley Hey.



The countryside in this area before development can be seen - though from a rather higher altitude and on a rather cloudy day - in image EPW017393, taken in April 1927. There's a link to this shot on the left of the image record.

John Ellis
Sunday 5th of January 2014 02:19:51 PM