Thank you Jayess, I note that I have the house of Belmont and Sweet Green both listed as being Bright Futures. The correction is welcomed and will be changed for the next issue.

With reference to the two houses on Flixton Road - Belmont and Sweet Green

 

Belmont is now the Bright Futures nursery and Sweet Green was I think due to become a medical centre at one time.

 

Sweet Green was owned by a Samuel Faulkner (farmer) who died in 1876 leaving the house and several fields to his wife for her lifetime and then to his daughter Louisa.  Funnily enough Louisa married the boy next door at Belmont and when her mother died they moved into Sweet Green.  Later their children inherited, sold the land to a builder and so Glenhaven Avenue was born!

 

All this from house deeds and census returns.

Casper I think that would be a mammoth task although it would be fun. It is my intention to walk the streets, as being my main objective, in an effort to gather up some of the missing places and facts that are eluding me. While doing this, anyone who wishes to join in the walks is very welcome and I could point out much of interest while doing so.

Hi Divad

 

I notice from the other topics that you're due back in Urmston soon. As you seem to have an extensive knowledge of Urmston & surrounding area, would you consider giving a guided tour & history overview for newcomers to the town?

 

I'd be interested in coming along.

 

Thanks

I have posted the August edition of the A-Z for perusal. I was going to wait until I had been home and visited Urmston next month but I felt it would be of more value to have the latest copy available.

The Atlas is available here on Amazon.

Grammarbug posed this question.
The reference to the even numbers on Queens Road caught my eye, because before  and during WW2 I used to run shopping errands for an old single lady at No 4 Queens Road, by the name of Miss Mary Ellison.  I wonder if she appears on your list?

 

No 4 Queens Road was called Westcliffe, it was built around 1908 and a gentleman called Richard Ellison was the first occupant. Directories show the family there through to the first WW. After checking I found he passed on in 1925 and in 1926 confirmation that the home became Mary's.

(The house was a semidetached and its partner was Glaisdale)

Grammarbug, you have to activate your 'allow contact' on your home page for me to reply direct. I do have some small information about your request.

I don't know if anyone picked up on this months deliberate mistake, which it wasn't, in all reality. The Beatles ticket from the Urmston Show, sold at auction, raised £100 not £1000. I do not want to get anyone too excited if they have a ticket hidden away some place.

The latest version is up and running. This will be the last one for a while as I take a Summer break from it to enjoy my garden etc. This edition is large with over 200 pages so it takes a little longer to download, please be patient.

For some added interest I have raised questions in regard to the origins of the Jubilee Tree in Flixton and the Wesley Cottage on Moorside Road.

If you can't afford to go on holiday this year, take some time out to visit the many locations mentioned in the A-Z, even try to find any cottages or homes that are missing and could be recorded. There are so many places of interest with rewarding viewing to see, plus the walk is very healthy.

DUH!

I found it in my own A-Z, it was called the Criterion Laundry and they closed up in 1954.

JohnH, you are not wrong, there was a laundry in that shop there but it is now driving me nuts to remember the name of it. It wasn't Chinese in my day and I remember they picked up and delivered too.

The search for this took me on Google, I found a new house for some investigation. Next door to the right on Stretford Road it turned up a Coach House dated as 1874. Anyone know of this for some detail?

I remember a Chinese laundry on City Road not to far from the Northumberland Hotel, this was  between 1946 to about 1960 and as I travelled to Manchester daily on the bus I remember the lady doing the ironing upstairs

A big thank you to Lainy for sending me the disc's to Canada. I will be doing lots of reading for a while.

Hey pmk, you are dead right.  48 Westmorland is called Darley Dale.  Either side, 46 is called Richmond and 50 is called Lynton.  Every single house in Westmorland has a name in my directory.  You can send me a message via Urmston.net and my home page, and I will email you the whole list for the road if you like. 

PmK, I have a directory for 1911 which shows the names of all 28 even numbered homes from Queens Road. If you contact me via my home page I will send it to you then you can tell all your neighbours, if they are interested.

 

Thanks Divad and Graz for your responses. Both my neighbours stones are missing, as are many others on the street too, but I'll do some asking around. Good to have a starting point.

 

Lainy, would 48 Westmorland appear in either of your directories as Darley Dale or anything else?

 

Thanks again.

You are a star Graz, I will get right on it.

Keep you busy Divad

 

2-12 Haslemere Road, Flixton - "Woodbine" (Link)

2 Spennithorne Road, Flixton - "Silverdale" (Link)

4 Spennithorne Road, Flixton - "Braemar" (Link)

42-64 Princess Road, Flixton - "Howells Terrace" (Link)

37 Cornhill Road, Davyhulme - "The Knolls" (Link)

45 Cornhill Road, Davyhulme - "The Deans" (Link)

47 Cornhill Road, Davyhulme - "Hazeldene" (Link)

121-129 Moorside Road, Flixton - "North View" (Link)

189-221 Moorside Road, Flixton - "Salisbury Terrace" (Link)

18-32 Brook Road, Flixton - "Eden Terrace" (Link)

3-9 Brook Road, Flixton - "Ringmore" (Link) 

11-21 Brook Road, Flixton - "Shaldon" (Link)

10 Western Road, Flixton - "Oakleigh" (Link)

32 Western Road, Flixton - "St. Ives" (Link)

34 Western Road, Flixton - "Lyndhurst" (Link)

Thrilled to see others share my passion for house names.  I don't feel such a lonely saddo now.  I have 2 CDs of Street and Trade directories purely to "harvest" the house names from!  These are from Stepping Stones and I have "Manchester 1913 Street Directory" and "Slater's Lancashire 1848 Trade Directory".  If any other local history fans would like to borrow either by post, just contact me via my homepage on here.

Hi PmK, I can give you a starter, the house was named Darley Dale at that number in 1911. It is unfortunate that I cannot tell you if the post office has changed any of the numbering since that time. For a further clue, if the homes either side of you are named then they should show Richmond and Lynton.

 

My last note about Barnfield, I found a house named The Mooring which has now given me a small break for one side of the road. I am still seeking the other for a clue.

Today a new one turned up that of Laburnum on Davyhulme Road, it is a start but I can see I will have to pay a visit in person to get much further along there.

Hi, I am interested in finding out the original house name for 48 Westmorland Road, I have recently bought the property and the stone is missing.

 

In the A to Z the names are listed but not linked to the current house numbers

 

Can you help?

 

Thanks, Paul

Thank you Graz, I will have to do some amending to what I had. The cottage of Ivy was on Flixton Road but across at the corner of Princess Road. From memory, it would have almost been near Longfield Terrace but on the other side of the road.