Fawcett St, Hulme, Manchester

[alpinecottage]

Alan Godfrey do brilliant maps for about £3 each - www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk

[silver55silver]

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

[davidurk]

Hi I have relatives that had according to 1911 census were "beerhouse keepers" for a brewery at 62 Wilmott st Hulme. They lived on Devonshire Street as per marriage certificate.
Joseph and Elizabeth Robinson. They were my ggrandparents.
I cannot find anything about what the pub was or where on Wilmott St it was.
can anyone point me in the right direction please
thanks
Karen

[Barbara.H]

Hi Karen

Joseph is in the 1911 Street directory for Manchester (on the Historical Directories site ).  After the entry for 62 Wilmott St it says 'here is Bloom St', so I guess the beerhouse was on the corner of Wilmott and Bloom St. 
He is listed as a 'beer retailer, so it sounds more like an off-licence type of place rather than a pub. It might not have had a name other than Robinson's beerhouse.

Hope that helps
  Barbara

[davidurk]

thanks Barbara
On my grans marriage certificate in 1928 Joseph's occupation was a licensed victualler still at Wilmott st  and apparently another relative was born there in 1929/30. Unfortunately there is nobody to ask now to verify anything.

In 1906 when my gran was born they lived at 26 Devonshire st, that was a few roads along wasn't it? He was a tripe dresser then and had been since at least 1883 when he married his first wife. Bit of a swap of occupations! know which I would prefer

Karen

[doug.davies]

 Hi
  All I was also Born in Hulme Freeman Street in 1940 I can't locate on any maps due to all
 the wholesale demolition,has anyone any ideas where it is  ( or was ) it would be great if I could
 get hold of a copy of a old map.
 Just thought of something else it was near a pub "The Robin Hood "
 Keep up the good work ,I enjoy reading your memories about my Hulme
 Regards Doug Davies
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[Barbara.H]

Hi Doug, welcome to Rootschat 

Freeman St ran parallel to Booth St - I can see it on an old map but I have software problem at the moment and cannot upload it for you. 

Never mind - go to this site
http://www.artus-familyhistory.com/source/Early%20Maps.html/source/Early%20Maps.html

select 'Manchester and Salford Various' then 1935.  Hulme/Chorlton on Medlock is on section 3B.  Scroll around and you will find Freeman St (locate the University and move left from there)

Sorry I can't upload it here, but Im sure you'll enjoy wandering round this brilliant site

  Barbara

[mitmoor]

I followed this thread with great interest, my mother worked at the junction pub
in the 1930s, and I went to the pop or the crescent every saturday morning
I don't remember any underground toilets on preston street but remember
the underground toilets on clopton street.

mitmoor

[Luzzu]

Hi,

 

I would recommend this book for some good background information and photographs of the area:-

Looking Back at Hulme.Moss Side.Chorlton on Medlock & Ardwick
Chris Makepeace
ISBN 0946361 34 7
published by Willow Publishing

Luzzu