north Manchester

Blog posts:

locales: Cropper Street, Manchester (1)

Manchester committee to promote innocent recreation

Public space maps

Newton Heath enclosure and public space maps

extract from Newton Heath enclosure award map 1805 (Manchester Cathedral archives), with the poor’s land marked up. Yellow dotted line is the registered ROW under the 2000 CROW act.

extract from 1848 OS map with the poor’s land from the enclosure award superimposed:

1852 Board of Health map of Newton Heath:

1852 Sanitary map of Newton Heath Board of Health – plots to be sold for building:

1893 25 inch to the mile OS map:

1903 – offer of land adjoining Gaskell Street Recreation Ground:

1920s OS map:

1966 OS map:

1969 house clearances map (to be cleared areas marked in red and future proposals marked in pink). Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/15254209679/in/album-72157628617413397/

Open street map with classified Open Space:

Gaskell St recreation ground (google street view):

Cropper/Osborne Street – the most radical street in Manchester?:

Hear me discuss the radical history of Cropper Street on North Manchester Radio on Hannah’s Bookshelf, 19 February 2019: https://www.mixcloud.com/Hannahs_Bookshelf/a-helping-of-history-19022019/

The Most Radical Street in Manchester? at People’s History Museum

https://historyofpublicspace.uk/tag/cropper-street/

Cropper Street was isolated but also a thoroughfare. Footpaths on the 1794 Green’s map of Manchester, overlain over the 1849 1st edition OS map, showing how they crossed over what became Osborne Street (on their way to St George’s Fields), but then were extinguished by the railway:

Maps in progress:

Sources

1880 map of the sanitary districts of Manchester – University of Manchester digitised collections

Osborne Street and surrounding:

https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/s/i38eur