EAW043349 ENGLAND (1952). Manchester Airport, Castle Hill, from the north-west, 1952

Sunbank Lane (formerly Back Lane, leading circuitously round, via Warburton Green, to Hale Barns - the new centre of local population, where the modern successor to Ringway Church is.

Woodhouse Farm

Haletop

Ringway village centre. The white building is the "Romper" pub - originally said to have been "the Red Lion", but a particularly droll inn sign in the early 20th century led it to be nicknamed "the Romping Kitten". Now "The Romper" has become the official name. The darker building on the nearer side of "the Romper" was the old village smithy. On the opposite corner of Sunbank Lane, the roof of St Mary & All Saints CE church is visible. The church isn't now used for regular services, as growth of the airport diminished the village's already small population, though the graveyard is still open. The current building is early 18th century, but a chapel of ease (to St Mary, Bowdon) had stood on or near the site since the late middle ages.

WILMSLOW

Cloughbank Farm

Lane End Cottages

Manor Farm (in the 19th century known as Tanyard Farm) - now under the fringe of the airport's Cargo Centre.

Pinfold Lane

"The Grange"

Fields Farm - now under the tarmac west of Terminal 2

Hasty Lane

Wilmslow Road (A538), towards Altrincham

Ringway (St Mary & All Saints) Vicarage

Wilmslow Road (A538 Altrincham-Wilmslow road) - original course. The road is now diverted, and runs under the airport's much extended runways via a tunnel. Until the early 1960s, the original road, as shown here, used to be briefly closed like a manually operated railway level crossing each time a large plane took off or landed.

Styal village

Quarry Bank Mill, Styal

Heyhead (hamlet)

Woodhouse Lane, Heyhead

Ringway Road

Yew Tree Lane

Yew Tree Lane

Thorley Lane - towards Timperley and Baguley

Etrop Green

Outwood Lane

Thorley Lane