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Withington Road, MANCHESTER, M16 8FB

The disused and derelict Nello James Centre on Withington Road.

A well-preserved 1960s building. Now St Margaret's Church of England Primary School.

This is Sunnyside Villa, Whalley Range, built in 1858 and now one of the last couple of original villas in the area dating from Samuel Brooks layout of Whalley Range. The building with extensive servants quarters hasn’t been lived in for over 40 years and is now under threat from demolition. **UPDATE MARCH 2009** Sunnyside Villa was demolished in March 2009 to build over 20 terraced houses. Thanks to Jim Thornbury of Range Warehouses

This is the entrance gates to Sunnyside Villa, Whalley Range, built in 1858 and now one of the last couple of original villas in the area dating from Samuel Brooks layout of Whalley Range. The building with extensive servants quarters hasn’t been lived in for over 40 years and is now under threat from demolition **UPDATE MARCH 2009** Sunnyside Villa was demolished in March 2009 to build over 20 terraced houses. Thanks to Jim Thornbury of Range Warehouses. This lovely boundary wall, of solide yellow sandstone with the inscription "SUNNYSIDE" carved in it has been terribly mutalated by the contractors

This piece of grassed-over land behind the railings used to be occupied by some large houses. The land is part of St Bede's College. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/633140 for pictures of the houses

This building, part of St Bede's College, is called the Henshaw building. This was constructed circa 1930s and housed Science laboratories.

The house on the far left, No 5, was owned by St Bede's College, the main buildings of which are situated on the opposite side of Wellington Road. This house was used in the distant past for the preparatory class of pupils at the school - the "Lower Third". The next house, number 7 was owned by the Salford Diocese and was rented out. An author, H W Timperley who wrote "A Cotswold Book" lived at 7 Wellington Road in June 1929. L S Lowry contributed twelve drawings for this book and corresponded with H W Timperley at this address. See http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/download/GB%200425%20u52 The other houses were privately owned. The land at the end of this side of the road was owned by the College, which later acquired all these properties which were then demolished. This road used to be unadopted, but was later tarmaced in the 1970's? by the local authority. Also see Image] Image] Image]

This semi detached Victorian house at 7 Wellington Road no longer exists, nor do any of the houses on this side of the road. St Bede's College - the "Beck" building is visible in the background - bought the houses and the ground is now part of the school. Snow in Whalley Range, Manchester, was a rare event.