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Thanks Alpine and Orinoco and Mike

The 1857 is very good and I've had a browse through alan godfrey too.

It's made me realise how good Manchester Corporation/Council have been at demolishing all of my ancestors homes!

The Corporation/Council has had two goes at Hulme. The first was probably the biggest social housing disaster ever (have you seen the web site www.exhulme.co.uk). I believe these concrete monstrosities have now been demolished too. I'm not sure what has replaced them.

In West Gorton, the Shawcross, Rathbone, later Sullivans (and me for my first 2 years) lived next to the fantastic Belle Vue pleasure park and zoo on what was known as the 'prison grounds'. It sounds awful but in fact they were lovely late Victorian redbrick terraces built on the grounds of the old BelleVue prison which had been demolished 50 years before when Strangeways was built. The houses were compulsorily purchased for a pittance in the early 1980s. Having lain derelict for years, it's now a motorway and car auction site!

Glad I got that off my chest. Hope you don't mind.
Jeannie

Hi
The info on this thread is great. My Gr, Gr Grandfather Henry Bowman was living at 13 Fawcett St in 1851 with wife Elizabeth and 7 children. He was a Mechanic/ Machine Maker/ Turner and was born in Carlisle circa 1810.  His wife was born in Manchester at about 1810. In 1841 the family was at 17 Galloway St. Is this on the map?

It seems to have been an area for craftsmen.

All the best
Jeannie