EPW038535 ENGLAND (1932). Housing surrounding Edge Lane, Longford Hall and Longford Park, Gorse Hill, 1932

Bridgewater Canal heading for Manchester City Centre.

Talbot Road

A56 Chester Road bridge across the Bridgewater Canal

Edge Lane Bowling and Tennis Club https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/2019/05/that-old-bowling-green-and-tennis-club.html

Bandstand in Gorse Hill Park

Stretford Boys Grammar School at the time of this photo, now Stretford High School, mixed.

This was the Longford Institute built by John Rylands, Britains richest mill owner, as a Temperance and Sports Club to entice the local men away from those establishments that served the 'demon drink' or alcohol. I last temember it as the Kenwood Sports and Tennis Club and it has since been demolished and new housing built on the site. The original caretakers house can still be seen at the rear of 78 Kenwood Rd and the gateway still has the original cast iron pillars.

This is Standish House and was renamed by its new owner John Hulme as Ingleby after the name of his first house at number 2 Lime Rd nearby. It was later gifted to the people of Stretford and retirement flats built there in the 1950's. The house now known as Ingleby was used during WWII as a civil defense base by auxilliary firemen.

Byron Rd

Gorse Park School.

I think this is Gorse Hill Park

Boundary between Stretford (now part of Trafford) to the left and Chorlton (Manchester) to the right.

Alderfield Road, Chorlton

Cromwell Road, Stretford

Gorse Hill

Longford Park

Longford Hall - Italianate Victorian rebuild on the site of an older house by the cotton entrepreneur and philanthropist John Rylands.

Union Church (Baptist/Congregational) - built in the 1860s by John Rylands, cotton entrepreneue and philantripost, who lived at Longford Hall, which he rebuilt. The church closed back in the 1980s, and after a spell of office used has been acquired by a Manchester Filipino Christian community.

Edge Lane (now A5145)

Turn Moss Road

Edge Lane (now A5145)

Manchester - (Lymm/Warrington Bank Quay/Liverpool Lime Street) Altrincham - Chester (Northgate) railway. The line between Manchester and Altrincham had been recently electrified at this date, and the new overhead gantries are visible.