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Hale Road, ALTRINCHAM, WA15 8SW

When built, these replaced the last thatched cottages in the area but are of superior quality in design and construction - unlike the 1960s shopping precinct which is, justly, now being demolished.

Junction of Wicker Lane and Hale Road

From Holy Angels' car park. See the same scene in 1975, before the town houses were built: Image

Takes its name from the adjacent parish of Ringway, famous for having given its name to Manchester's airport, now more anonymously known as Manchester International. The Club dates back to the beginning of the last century and was established in a former farmhouse (Halemount) but was forced to rebuild after the old premises burned to the ground in 1987(?).

This café occupies corner premises in the village that have seen a variety of retail uses - including a hardware shop, chandlers, and a carpet fitter/retailer. It is not the most restful of locations for outdoor tables - alongside the ultra busy Hale Road - but seems to attract plenty of customers. It takes its name from the 19th century Smithy, next door. The new proprietors are luckier than they realise: before the First War, Lord Egerton - the landowner in Hale and Ringway - forbade all his tenants to sell and serve tea to visitors (i.e. day trippers) on pain of instant eviction!

A tall sandstone cross on the small island at the junction of Hale Road and Wicker Lane. The names of those of Hale Barns and Ringway who fell in the two world wars are inscribed on the base (see http://www.carlscam.com/hale/warbarn.htm for a list of the names).

This appears in several old photographs of Hale Barns. The Green was originally fenced off, and provided with a drinking fountain, at the expense of wealthy Conservative MP for Altrincham, Sir William Cunliffe Brooks (1819 - 1900). Interestingly, he was succeeded as MP in Altrincham by C R Disraeli, nephew of Benjamin. Like his father (Samuel Brooks) he lived, for a period, up the road at Prospect House. The Brooks' private bank, of which there was a prominent branch in Altrincham, was sold to Lloyd's in 1900.

War Memorial, Hale Barns, with inscriptions covering the First and Second World Wars.

A tall sandstone cross on the small island at the junction of Hale Road and Wicker Lane. The names of those of Hale Barns and Ringway who fell in the two world wars are inscribed on the base (see http://www.carlscam.com/hale/warbarn.htm for a list of the names).

A tall sandstone cross on the small island at the junction of Hale Road and Wicker Lane. The names of those of Hale Barns and Ringway who fell in the two world wars are inscribed on the base (see http://www.carlscam.com/hale/warbarn.htm for a list of the names).