Old Map of Manchester
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aqua
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I adore this thread, it's created such a lovely mental image for me and my mum tooI love these threads
I also love it when they get bumped after a long time with shining nuggets of information.
Apathy
Roll us yer cap Grandad!!
loads of great old pics of the area getting uploaded on a daily basis by peeps on this FB page...
https://www.facebook.com/groups/6549572185/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/6549572185/
Mick the Hat
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farmerbarleymow
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I've just wasted an hour poring over old maps! It looks like where I live didn't exist in the early 19thC, but later on was industrial slum hellhole that characterised the area back then.
The John Rylands Library linked to above has a good collection of maps - they do occasion talks on old maps of Manchester which are really interesting, and you get to study the original paper maps too.
The John Rylands Library linked to above has a good collection of maps - they do occasion talks on old maps of Manchester which are really interesting, and you get to study the original paper maps too.
Lazarus62
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I lived on Forge Lane and my grandmother lived on Hutchin street in the 1940s,1950s and 60s until the area was compulsory purchased. The gasometer used to blow every now and again and twice it blew the windows out of the houses on Forge Lane. I am in the process of completing a book for my granddaughter and it is asking about where I was born and what it was like. This site was useful as you can overlay todays map over old maps to see how things have changed. Manchester Historical Maps
walter jackson
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walter jackson
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hutchins st beswick 1897.
walter jackson
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walter jackson
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the three pictures ive posted are of number 22 hutchins st beswick 1897.
Alicia Mather
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Completely gate crashing a thread here... but what a great find! Just come across the site whilst trying to locate Hutchins Street, saw that the pictures are no 22, my family were at no 20 on 1891 census (Mather) so evidently next door. Really fascinating, thank you everyone for this info!
Pickman's model
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just a maps update: the national library of scotland are putting up fuck loads of 25"/mile maps, and they have covered much of england and are pushing at the boundaries of manchester:
six inch maps are already on their website
Ordnance Survey Maps - National Library of Scotland
six inch maps are already on their website
Ordnance Survey Maps - National Library of Scotland
Chilli.s
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Map heaven, well linked, good work.
Hello I lived st number 27 Hutchins st in the 40s to 60s it was renamed by the council in the 50s to Howland street I found a pic taken in the 50/60s on line
I'll post here and one outside number 27
aqua
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Oh my god you're going to make me lose HOURS of my life to that site! That's amazing thank you so much!
Man I love a good old map
Ancoats Blue
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Hi Mate ... another old Hutchins Street resident here , i lived there from the late fifites until the day they kicked us off the land in the late sixties ... as others have said, it was wanted for development.
I lived at Number 21, near to the junction with Philip Street, and i am laden with memories of the place, the alleyways , the cobbles, the people i played out with as a kid ... it didn't really change much during the time i was there ..... we had an area called the 'Old Jig' down the gasworks end of the street , and at the Stuarts Street end of the street we had a wireworks bobbins yard , and a Granellis ice cream factory ..... there were a couple of shops on the front where Mill Street/Phillips Park was , as well as a couple of pubs ..... there was also a row of shops close to the top entrance to Philips Park, on Mill Strret. .... the area where the MCFC car parks now are, the canal is, and metrolink station now stands, well we as local kids knew that, back then, as 'No Mans Land'
Like i say i don't recall much, if any, actual demolition work taking place during my time there , but as there were certainly a few crofts or wasteland areas in the immediate Hutchins Street area so i could well imagine that demolition of houses etc had certainly taken place at some previous time there.
When i go back there now, and see all the redevelopment, it's hard to imagine that Hutchins Street was ever really there , but believe me ... it was!
By the way, contrary to some of the posts on here, Hutchins Strret was NEVER, at ANY stage, ever in Beswick ..... it was in BRADFORD (Manchester 11) !
I lived at Number 21, near to the junction with Philip Street, and i am laden with memories of the place, the alleyways , the cobbles, the people i played out with as a kid ... it didn't really change much during the time i was there ..... we had an area called the 'Old Jig' down the gasworks end of the street , and at the Stuarts Street end of the street we had a wireworks bobbins yard , and a Granellis ice cream factory ..... there were a couple of shops on the front where Mill Street/Phillips Park was , as well as a couple of pubs ..... there was also a row of shops close to the top entrance to Philips Park, on Mill Strret. .... the area where the MCFC car parks now are, the canal is, and metrolink station now stands, well we as local kids knew that, back then, as 'No Mans Land'
Like i say i don't recall much, if any, actual demolition work taking place during my time there , but as there were certainly a few crofts or wasteland areas in the immediate Hutchins Street area so i could well imagine that demolition of houses etc had certainly taken place at some previous time there.
When i go back there now, and see all the redevelopment, it's hard to imagine that Hutchins Street was ever really there , but believe me ... it was!
By the way, contrary to some of the posts on here, Hutchins Strret was NEVER, at ANY stage, ever in Beswick ..... it was in BRADFORD (Manchester 11) !
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