IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Shawbrook Road, MANCHESTER, M19 1JE

Taken from the east side of Errwood Road, which is the slightly more distant of the two roads in the photograph. Note that some wag has turned the blue direction signs through 90 degrees so that instead of pointing north and south along Errwood Road they now direct walkers and cyclists east and west along Shawbrook Road.

An ancient water-filled trench that provides an oasis for frogs, birds and other wildlife in the midst of Heaton Moor golf course, a more cultivated and sterile environment.

A Greek Revival villa with a Doric portico built "between 1832 and 1840 for Joseph Chessborough Dyer, an inventor who came to Manchester in 1812". It employed "recently developed fire-resistant building techniques for a dwelling, using Hodgkinson cast-iron beams [which had been developed in Manchester]". Grade II listed. It was a hospital for many years, but according to Wikipedia is now the official residence of the Chinese Consul General. Enabling development seems to have mushroomed behind.

A view of Peel Moat on Heaton Moor Golf Course. Looking roughly west. The moat is now often dry and nothing remains on the small central island. It is a small rectangular moat, described by 19th Century sources as having once enclosed a square fortified tower. The central island is the sunlit patch of grass in the centre of the frame. The moat extends from the shrubs on the rhs of the path, just below the centre of the frame, through the area of "brown" reedy grass then round the island and back to the path. SJ87509247.