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Sharston
Sharston is an area of Wythenshawe, south Manchester, England. The population at the 2011 census was 16,754. History Built on former farming land (as was most of Wythenshawe when the estate was first being built in the 1920s), the area was initially mostly industrial, with Sharston Industrial Estate containing a post office (with an area sorting office), a dairy, a Bisto factory, and various other businesses. Wythenshawe Bus Garage was built in Harling Road off Sharston Road in 1942 by Manchester Corporation Transport Department to house and service 100 double deck buses used on routes to and from the expanding housing estates. It still exists in other use and is a listed building. Northenden railway station was just off Sharston Road, but closed in late 1964. However, more recent boundary changes in the Wythenshawe district now consider Sharston to cover a considerable portion of residential housing along Wythenshawe's east side. The industrial estate consists of sectors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wythenshawe
Wythenshawe () is an area of Manchester, England. Historically part of Cheshire, in 1931 Wythenshawe was transferred to the City of Manchester, which had begun building a large housing estate there in the 1920s. With an area of approximately , Wythenshawe became the largest council estate in Europe. Wythenshawe includes the areas of Baguley, Benchill, Peel Hall, Newall Green, Woodhouse Park, Moss Nook, Northern Moor, Northenden and Sharston. History The name Wythenshawe seems to come from the Old English ''wiðign'' = " withy tree" and ''sceaga'' = "wood" (compare dialectal word shaw). The three ancient townships of Northenden, Baguley, and Northen Etchells formally became the present-day Wythenshawe when they were merged with Manchester in 1931. Until then, the name was only used to refer to Wythenshawe Hall and its grounds. Due to spending cuts, the hall was temporarily closed to the public in 2010. One proposition was that Manchester City Council could sell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M56 Motorway
The M56 motorway serves the Cheshire and Greater Manchester areas of England. It runs east to west from junction 4 of the M60 at Gatley, south of Manchester, to Dunkirk, approximately north of Chester. With a length of , it connects North Wales and the Wirral peninsula with much of the rest of North West England, serves business and commuter traffic heading towards Manchester, particularly that from the wider Cheshire area, and provides the main road access to Manchester Airport from the national motorway network. Between junctions 9 and 16, the motorway forms part of the unsigned European route E22 on its route in the UK between Holyhead in Anglesey and Immingham in Lincolnshire. Route Although the main line of the motorway starts as a continuation of the A5103 Princess Parkway, the M56 begins on the Sharston Spur (also known as the Sharston Bypass) where it leaves the M60 motorway at its junction 4 (clockwise exit and anticlockwise entry), adjacent to where the slip r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchester City Council
Manchester City Council is the Local government in England, local authority for the City status in the United Kingdom, city of Manchester in Greater Manchester, England. Manchester has had an elected local authority since 1838, which has been reformed several times. Since 1974 the council has been a metropolitan borough council. It provides the majority of local government services in the city. The council has been a member of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority since 2011. The council has been under Labour Party (UK), Labour majority control since 1971. It is based at Manchester Town Hall. History Manchester had been governed as a Ancient borough, borough in the 13th and 14th centuries, but its borough status was not supported by a royal charter. An inquiry in 1359 ruled that it was only a market town, not a borough. It was then governed by manorial courts and the parish vestry until the 18th century. In 1792 a body of improvement commissioners known as the 'Manchester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wythenshawe Bus Garage
Wythenshawe Bus Garage is a Grade II* listed building in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, England. History Designed by Manchester City Architects Department under G. Noel Hill, and completed in 1942, the garage was a pioneering example of its type of construction. It is located on Harling Road, off Sharston Road in the Sharston district of Wythenshawe. It was the second-largest reinforced concrete shell roof structure to be constructed in England. The building's structure was particularly innovative for its time. Its concrete arches have a span of from side to side, are high and spaced apart. The tensile concrete shell roof between these concrete arches is just thick and is punctured by large rooflights. Wythenshawe Garage proved to be the model for much larger buildings using the concrete shell roof structure technique, which was an economic method of achieving large uninterrupted roof spans. Originally designed to garage a hundred double-decker buses, the building on its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wythenshawe And Sale East (UK Parliament Constituency)
Wythenshawe and Sale East is a parliamentary constituency in the city of Manchester and the borough of Trafford. It returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system. The constituency has always been a safe Labour seat, and the southern tip of the constituency includes Manchester Airport; the constituency also borders rural Cheshire to the south. The current MP is Mike Kane of the Labour Party who was elected at the 2014 by-election in February 2014. He succeeded Labour's Paul Goggins who died in January 2014, and who had held the seat since its inception in 1997. Boundaries 1997–2010: The City of Manchester wards of Baguley, Benchill, Brooklands, Northenden, Sharston, and Woodhouse Park, and the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford wards of Brooklands, Priory, and Sale Moor. 2010–present: The City of Manchester wards of Baguley, Brooklands, Northenden, Sharston and Woodhous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gatley
Gatley is a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, 3 miles north-east of Manchester Airport. History Toponymy Within the boundaries of the Historic counties of England, historic county of Cheshire, in 1290, Gatley was known as ''Gateclyve'', which in Middle English means "a place where goats are kept". Early history Until the 20th century, most Gatley residents either worked in the material trades or were farmers. An open field system existed around Gatley in the late 17th century, but the practice of common farming seems to have fallen into disuse when William Tatton allowed tenants to buy their own land.Arrowsmith, Peter ''Stockport, A History'', published 1997, Gatley Carrs was the lower, marshy ground running down to the River Mersey and west to Northenden. Before 1700 it was a place for osier beds which local people had used for basket making or for wattles for cottages or fencing. In 1800, Mr Worthington of Sharston Hall planted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northenden Railway Station
Northenden railway station served the suburb of Northenden, in Manchester, England; it was located to the south-east of the town in Sharston. Opening Northenden station was built by the Stockport, Timperley and Altrincham Junction Railway (ST&AJ) and opened for passenger and goods traffic on 1 February 1866. On 15 August 1867, the ST&AJ became part of the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC); it became jointly owned by the London and North Eastern Railway and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway on 1 January 1923. Some railway timetables described the station as ''Northenden for Wythenshawe'' because, lying between the road bridges at Sharston Road and Longley Lane, it served the two districts. Facilities The main brick-built station building was constructed to a typical Cheshire Lines Committee design, with steeply sloping roofs and decorative wooden barge boarding. It contained the booking office, passenger waiting room, parcels office, toilet facilities and the station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Rourke
Andrew Michael Rourke (17 January 1964 – 19 May 2023) was an English musician best known as the bassist of the 1980s indie rock band the Smiths. Regarded as one of the greatest bassists of his generation, he was known for his melodic and funk-inspired approach to bass playing. Rourke joined the Smiths after their first gig, having known guitarist Johnny Marr since secondary school, and played on their entire discography. After the group broke up in 1987, he performed on some of lead vocalist Morrissey's early solo releases. Rourke recorded with Sinéad O'Connor and the Pretenders in the early 1990s, and was a member of the supergroup Freebass and the band D.A.R.K., and later Blitz Vega with Kav Sandhu. He organised the Versus Cancer concerts from 2006 to 2009. Early life Rourke was born in Manchester, Lancashire, in 1964, and grew up on the Racecourse Estate in Ashton upon Mersey. His Irish father, Michael, worked as an architect; his mother, Mary (née Stone), was Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry H Corbett
Harry H. Corbett (28 February 1925 – 21 March 1982) was an English actor. He is best remembered for playing rag-and-bone man Harold Steptoe alongside Wilfrid Brambell in the long-running BBC Television sitcom '' Steptoe and Son'' (1962–1965, 1970–1974). His success on television led to appearances in comedy films including '' The Bargee'' (1964), '' Carry On Screaming!'' (1966) and ''Jabberwocky'' (1977). Early life Corbett was born on 28 February 1925, the youngest of seven children, in Rangoon, Burma, (now Myanmar) where his father, George Corbett (1885/86–1943), was serving as a company quartermaster sergeant in the South Staffordshire Regiment of the British Army, stationed at a cantonment as part of the Colonial defence forces. Corbett was sent to Britain after his mother, Caroline Emily, ''née'' Barnsley (1884–1926), died of dysentery when he was eighteen months old. He was then brought up by his aunt Annie Williams, in Earl Street, Ardwick, Manchester, and lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Edward Watkin
Sir Edward William Watkin, 1st Baronet (26 September 1819 – 13 April 1901) was a British people, British Parliament of the United Kingdom, Member of Parliament and railway entrepreneur. He was an ambitious visionary, and presided over large-scale railway engineering projects to fulfil his business aspirations, eventually rising to become chairman of nine different List of railway companies involved in the 1923 grouping, British railway companies. Among his more notable projects were: his expansion of the Metropolitan Railway, part of today's London Underground; the construction of the Great Central Main Line, a purpose-built high-speed railway line; the creation of a pleasure garden with a partially constructed iron tower at Wembley; and a failed attempt to dig a Channel Tunnel under the English Channel to connect his railway empire to the Rail transport in France, French rail network. Early life Watkin was born in Salford, Greater Manchester, Salford, Lancashire, the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Hill, Northenden
Rose Hill on Longley Lane in Northenden, Manchester, England, is a 19th-century Victorian villa. It is most notable as the home of Sir Edward Watkin, "railway king and cross-channel visionary",Hartwell et al. 2004, p 465 and in the late 20th century it was in use as a children's home. The house was designated a Grade II* listed building on 10 April 1991. History In 1832, Rose Hill was bought by a wealthy cotton merchant, Absalom Watkin (1787–1861). Watkin was a social and political reformer, an anti corn law campaigner and a diarist, recording life in early Victorian Manchester. The house was inherited by Absalom's son, Edward Watkin. Edward was a noted transport entrepreneur who made his fortune as the managing director of nine separate railway companies at a time of vast expansion of the railways in mid-Victorian Britain. He was responsible for driving the expansion of the Metropolitan Railway into the rural areas outside London, and he also founded the Channel Tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
