Entrance to Brooks' Drive, Hale Road
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Entrance to Brooks' Drive, Hale Road
Image: © Anthony O'Neil Taken: 10 Nov 2013
The grand ornamental way envisaged by Samuel Brooks in the 1860s only went a short distance from the Hale/Wilmslow Road because he died before the ambitious project could be fully realised. His son - William Cunliffe Brooks - continued with some sections at the Brooklands end but the result was piecemeal, and nothing happened between Hale Road and Warburton Green except that a public footpath remained there. (When Brooks died in 1864 he left £3M - in cash alone - probably worth 20 times that in today's money.)
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Image Location
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53.366251
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-2.303825