My memories of the place are still there. Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events, All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated, 127 - Manchester Archives and Local Studies, About our The maps, though covering quite a small area, are Now, the Mancunian Way and that great 21st century British export, the university, dominate the area. Poor and others. Manchester, created in 1896. "Everybody mixed together and sat outside on their front doorstep and they brought chairs out into the street and looked after the babies.". mentioned. The Salutation pub is still there, but everything else is gone, even the street where we lived. a Welsh Wesleyan chapel at Greenheys. They just needed a bit of updating and electricity putting in. The principal streets are Oxford Street and Upper Cemetery, formed in 1823 for the use of Protestant [3], In May 1868, a part of the parish of St Saviour's was assigned to the church of St John Chrysostom, Rusholme. "When I was a boy, my father took me to an exhibition in the Manchester Town Hall to see the plans for the future of the city, it looked like Utopia. "Its not the city centre, its not the leafy suburbs, it's one these kind of transition areas that lose their shape after World War II, cleared and cut through with different road projects. But Chorlton-on-Medlock is one of south Manchester's biggest and most important neighbourhoods - starting at Whitworth Park, travelling north up Oxford Road, taking in streets to the east and west of that great thoroughfare, bordering Ardwick, Greenheys, Hulme, Longsight, Moss Side, Rusholme and the city centre. 32), At one time GREENLOW HEATH appears to incorporation in 1838, and was then divided into two "When they first bulldozed the houses and built the flats in Hulme it just looked horrendous as they had been such nice houses," Bridget says. It saw thousands of Manchester families moved into new council homes, where many enjoyed modern comforts for the first time in their lives. xv cent. "Mum always wanted to us to do better than what she had done," she recalls. At the top there are ornamental pinnacles at each corner; and four flying buttresses supporting the base of the spire. In 1962 on the demolition of St. Luke's, Chorlton upon Medlock, the two parishes were united as St. Paul with St. Luke, by Order in Council, 25 January. The idea was that this corner of inner city south Manchester would have its own Princess Parkway style dual carriageway, and that traffic would be diverted from Oxford Road. its demesne lands were in 1590 sold by Sir Edmund Behind the wall running alongside the warehouse is Grape Street; the site of Coronation Streets first outdoor, brick-built sets. St. Stephens School, Milton St. Chorlton on Medlock William Crossley front row 2nd from right. Acres, 700. She was five at the time and the picture was taken in around 1965 and is now 60. The Church of the Holy Name of Jesus was founded by Jesuits, who were invited to establish a base in Chorlton-on-Medlock by the first Bishop of Salford, William Turner. The ancestor of the University of Manchester, Owens College, moved to the area from Cobden House, Quay Street, a couple of years later. Sisters play at Honduras Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock. 11) and in 1212, when the great survey For a full list of maps for Lancashire, return to the. Cholerton, perhaps by mistake, Acres, 700. was made. buildings in the township, in addition to churches and This church was built in dark brick to the designs of Desmond Williams & Associates in 196768. Dr. Burton; of St. Luke, the Repr. He lived, was educated and worked in the area until the 1960s, and recalls how people who had lived in Chorlton-on-Medlock and cycled to work in the city centre and Trafford Park, were rehoused in Wythenshawe, Handforth and Hattersley, away from old friends and neighbours, suddenly dependent on public transport. that of Ellis Hey, with five hearths liable to the tax; in 44), and a letter acknowledging a gift towards the proposed church, 1860 (M35/9/7/238). 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ST STEPHENS CHURCH, CHORLTON-ON-MEDLOCK LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE On Thursday morning last, the Right Rev the Lord Bishop of Manchester laid the foundation stone of St Stephens Church, which is now being erected at the junction of the Everton Road and Milton Street, not far from the Stockport Road. capstans and mooring posts, lamp-posts, the layouts of back yards, and even the interior of certain buildings such as churches. Road, and a drill shed at Greenheys. 1) The new Infirmary is within this township. (London Gazette, 26 January 1962). Chorlton was recognized as That was just the beginning. 15) Internally here will be a nave 80 feet 7 inches long and 40 feet 10 inches wide with centre and side aisles; and transepts 25 feet 10 inches wide, each projecting 19 feet from the line of the building, making a total length of 78 feet 7 inches. The council often refer to this area as Manchester's 'Knowledge Corridor'. Bridget, at five, was the youngest of four sisters who were all born within four years. A plaque on Chorlton-on-Medlock's town hall commemorates it as the venue for the Fiifth Pan-African Conference of 1945 - a criticial moment for civil rights and independence movements. The former Primitive Methodist Chapel can be seen in the background of this 1956 picture, by that time it had been converted to a factory. 44), and a letter acknowledging a gift towards the proposed church, 1860 (M35/9/7/238). (fn. Chorlton-on-Medlock wasn't left as unrecognisable as Hulme was, but lost its definition to the point where it's common to see parts of it described as Longsight, Ardwick, Rusholme, or just 'Town'. "When my parents first came over they couldnt get a house. of the Victoria University of Manchester. share, paying about a fifth of Here, the M.E.N looks at some of the city centre and inner city streets which have been lost to the wreckers ball. Then heading off towards the city centre having passed below Ashton New Road. 27) This part was sold in the The housing conditions were described in 1931 by the Manchester and District Social Survey Society. in Moston. 36) "If you looked in archives of the Manchester Evening News and the Manchester Guardian from the 1950s, you would see how often the name Chorlton-on-Medlock appeared in print, but after the 1970s, it rarely gets mentioned," Dr Martin Dodge, of Manchester University's Human Geography department says. "Because I'm the youngest, my sister Mary (with the red curly hair) remembers much more. There's some irony in the fact the arrival of the original Manchester tram made Chorlton-on-Medlock an attractive place for 19th century commuters, before 20th century transport schemes contributed to its dimunition. Cromford Court, Hodson Square and Pool Fold had been covered by cottages, barns, gardens and pigsties, but building after building metamorphosed into warehouses", he wrote. This sepia image, which shows a horse-drawn carriage at rest, was taken in 1903 - before cars were commonplace in Manchester. Prayer was as popular as the pub in Manchester not so long ago; Chorlton-on-Medlock had dozens of churches. Mohr, Peter D. (2003) "Dr Catherine Chisholm (18791952) of the Manchester Babies' Hospital", in: "The Holy Trinity Armenian Church of Manchester", "Elizabeth Gaskell House, 84 Plymouth Grove", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chorlton-on-Medlock&oldid=1125251541, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. The Ormond Building of the Manchester Metropolitan University was originally the home of the Chorlton Union Board of Guardians (responsible under the 1834 Poor Law for most of what is now south Manchester). 17), The Grelleys, on acquiring the lordship, appear to While vast council estates were built in Hulme, Chorlton-on-Medlock's new housing was confined to the Brunswick estate, which includes low-rise, red brick homes, and the flats that can be seen from the Mancunian Way. In Plymouth Grove is a large Home for Anglican churches which are disused include St Stephen's (E. H. Shellard, 1853), St Paul's (Clegg & Knowles, 1862), and St Ambrose (H. C. Charlewood, 1884):[5] these have all been demolished apart from St Ambrose which was used by the University of Manchester as an Islamic prayer room but the prayer room is now elsewhere. (fn. The slum clearance of the post-war era removed 53 acres around Chorlton-on-Medlock from the landscape, including Honduras Street, where photographer Shirley Baker snapped children playing in the sixties. The building hulks above a pub, and if you look carefully, you can identify the brewer as Newton and Ridley. "These unrealised schemes didnt directkly impact on the physical landscape but they affected the kind of mindset of the people in the town hall. It was one of three pre-1851 chapels serving this township region next to Manchester City proper, and included All Saints and St . In 1835 Chorlton on Medlock was a township in the parish of Manchester. held by the Traffords of Garrett. transferred to this site in 1873; it is now the seat Man United play West Ham in the fifth round of the FA Cup on Wednesday and we'll bring you live updates from the match. 1) lies on the south side of the Medlock, and has an area of 646 acres. Watling Street shares its name with the ancient, Roman thoroughfare which stretched all the way from Mancunium to Ribchester, Cumbria. streets were then being laid out. "People didn't think their houses were slums," Jane adds. Chorlton-on-Medlock or Chorlton-upon-Medlock is an inner city area of Manchester, England. Steps from Temple Street led to the Altrincham Street viaduct, Friday Street, pictured at its junction with New Brown Street, (Image: Manchester Local Image Collection), Grape Street, seen from Water Street in the seventies, Grosvenor Place, pictured here in 1903, was demolished in the 80s, Cromford Court, seen here at its junction with Hodson Square, gave its name to a social housing complex on the Arndale roof, The poultry market between Shudehill and Watling Street pictured in 1889, Rosamond Street East was lost to post-war slum clearance, The 1970s concrete shopping plaza at Shambles Square. (fn. 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