hyde road

[Aulus]

loved the photo of your gt aunt Aulus why was she the black sheep?...sue

We know she's on my dad's side, but don't know which branch (Stevensons/Smiths/Steventons/Nobles/Burtons/Wilds/Holdens) - she was always referred to as someone "we don't talk about".

What little we could get out of my grandparents were that she went to London and was on the stage.  The London bit is correct (the photographer was Van der Weyde of Regent Street, though bizarrely somebody has deliberately tried to scratch out his details on the photo) and I think the photo is quite glamorous, so maybe the being on the stage thing is true too.  I've been unable to find a likely Florence on any of the censuses attached to known family.  All a bit odd!

[tony h]

Quick update
The OS map for 1960 covering Ardwick and West Gorton shows two 190 addresses, that together with the info on the map i posted earlier suggests three 190 Hyde Road's in a two mile stretch
I checked the house numbers for the chippy and plumbers on the 1960 map and they are in the odd 170's range, which means that 190 Hyde Road, Ardwick would have been somewhere opposite, and demolished to make way for the infamous Fort Ardwick.

190 Hyde Road, West Gorton has also been demolished but my friend who had a shop there at 223 Hyde Road has an ownership map of that section when the house numbers were rationalised along its full length. And finally 190 Hyde Road, Gorton i'm still trying to locate the exact position of on a map so i can compare with what's actually left.

As well as the so-called slum clearances there was a lot of demolition to make way for a road widening along the eastern corridor. In the event only about a mile of this was ever built at the eastern end with the resultant planning blight that has dogged this area ever since. I think trying to widen the road under the main Manchester - London railway line may have been the cause of the programme being dropped.

Sue, if you would PM your e-mail i can send you a lively account of life in and around Gorton in 1920's

Best wishes
Tony

[Mr. MIGKY]

Hi there you may want to check out the Gorton web site full of old pictures. click on the image on the left hand side of the site

                  http://www.gortonnews.org.uk/

Hope this is of some use to you?

Migky

[Mr. MIGKY]

And to show Hyde road Gorton in all it's pride, how about this one the building on the left hand side of the road is called the Lake hotel this picture was taken looking down Hyde roard towards Manchester.

Images removed as it may infringe copy rights


Migky

[harewoodhouse]

  what a great photo....I just love the bobby!...thanks

[harewoodhouse]

"MOVE ALONG NOW....THEIR IS NOTHING TO SEE HERE !"   

[Mr. MIGKY]

I am amazed at how many people and shops there were but yet not one piece of rubbish to be found, no littler any where? time may have been hard but people seem to have more pride in them selfs.
 If you would like any more pictures of Hyde road or of Gorton, please let me know.

Migky

[harewoodhouse]

  yes all those horses and no MUCK!....maybe there was a bylaw saying you had to carry a bucket or everyone ran out and collected it for their roses.
I love that photo and yes please to any more that you have, I will put them all on a disk and take them over to show my aunt who lives in Australia...she was born and raised in gorton and still misses it.
 I have already saved all the photos from the gorton news, what a great site.  thank you

[tony h]

Hi Sue,
No luck with 190 Hyde Road yet i can't quite pinpoint it's position, but the row of terraced shops
still there that i thought were candidates have doors to the left of the shop window. Your row
seems to be the block before which has gone.

If you go back to
http://www.images.manchester.gov.uk/web/pages/common/imagedisplay.php?&irn=30101&reftable=ecatalogue&refirn=36845&size=600x452
it should be somewhere behind that bus

We have hundreds and hundreds of photos of Gorton but this is my favourite. The Monastery
on the right absolutely dwarfs everything else. Its roof height  matches that of the tower of
All Saints on the left. The bell tower has still to be added and this dates the photo to pre 1911.
The picture is of Gorton Park and the bandstand. Notice the little chap in the centre appearing to
mimic the photographer. The lost innocence of youth about to be blighted by two horrendous
World Wars. I often wonder how many of those young men survived. I've downsized the photo
to fit here but will e-mail the original for your collection. Not entirely given up on 190 till i can point
to it on a map. Bee and Bonnet spring to mind. 

Best wishes
Tony

Migky, pop in and see us sometime, we're almost there.