lost street of longsight

[daid9]

i'd like to start by thanking all the lovely ladies for their warm welcome.
just wondering if anyone here is conversant with the Longsight area of Manchester? i am trying to confirm whether or not a street
named Malpas St. or Malpas Road existed in Longsight before the area was regenerated.
if my memory serves me correctly it would have been on the Gorton side of Stockport Rd. Running parallel with Stockport Road, just past the junction with Slade Lane travelling toward the city centre. It's about thirty five years ago since i was in Longsight last. Trying to trace an old friend but I can't remember the address.

[Lisa]

Hi Daid9, If you look on www.images.manchester.gov.uk and type in Malpas Street, you will see them all.

[lin]

HI DAID9...YOU ARE VERY WELCOME...HOPE YOU HAVE FUN BROWSING THROUGH THE SITE.

[daid9]

thank you lisa for your reply. had a look at the website (image- manchester) but unfortunately nothing seemed to ring a bell. the only Malpas Street that came up was in Gorton. did that part of Gorton come under Longsight back then.
Is there a site that shows a street map of the area for that era?

[catherine]

Oct 31, 2008 8:45:06 GMT -1 daid9 said:

thank you lisa for your reply. had a look at the website (image- manchester) but unfortunately nothing seemed to ring a bell. the only Malpas Street that came up was in Gorton. did that part of Gorton come under Longsight back then.
Is there a site that shows a street map of the area for that era?

Hi daid9, I've just had a look on the site Lisa posted and I got 9 Malpas Streets, they were in Gorton & West Gorton, I'm not sure where the boundary was for Longsight. Cath

[Lisa]

Hi Daid9, Keep checking the posts because one of our members is great at old maps of Manchester and we have several members who know the areas very well. It always amazes me just how well-informed our members are when it comes to the streets of Manchester.

[ETERNAL FLAME]

Hi Daid9 & welcome to Manmates. if you send me your email address in a PM (privet message ) i will find the street you want on a map for you and send a copy on to you. I would post it on here but pictures tend to slow the site down. Could you give me a time period you are looking for?

[bodzy3]

Oct 30, 2008 20:19:35 GMT -1 daid9 said:

i'd like to start by thanking all the lovely ladies for their warm welcome.
just wondering if anyone here is conversant with the Longsight area of Manchester? i am trying to confirm whether or not a street
named Malpas St. or Malpas Road existed in Longsight before the area was regenerated.
if my memory serves me correctly it would have been on the Gorton side of Stockport Rd. Running parallel with Stockport Road, just past the junction with Slade Lane travelling toward the city centre. It's about thirty five years ago since i was in Longsight last. Trying to trace an old friend but I can't remember the address.

Hi daid9
First let me say I didnt know a street around that area called Malpas St but if your traveling in the direction frm Slade Lane to Manchester the first real street you come to is Stanley Grove and that is in Gorton then after that is a row of shops and banks but there used to be streets there then the next junctionis Kirkmanshulme Lane and that was the boundrey for Gorton and Levenshulme the used to be a plaque on the wall of the first house on Stockport road corner of Kirkmanshulme lane dont know if its still there , I know Malpas street west gorton but not the other one
bodzy

[daid9]

thanks for your reply Bodzy. i've been looking at the AA street plan for longsight. where you mention there being rows of shops and banks comes up on the AA street plan as a shopping centre and health centre, if i'm correct. I seem to remember that there were streets of red brick terrace houses on or near that plot. the street i,m trying to put a name to would have been the first street,which was parallel to stockport road.

[ETERNAL FLAME]

Hi, Right, the only MALPAS STREET/ROAD was one near Belle Vue. It was at the top of Belle Vue street and Hyde road. I have marked it on the map with a red dot. you will be able to zoom in on it.This i the best copy i have and i taken from a 1939 map other maps i have don't show it up to well. Have emailed the ection of the map to you .

[bodzy3]

Oct 31, 2008 21:51:54 GMT -1 daid9 said:

thanks for your reply Bodzy. I've been looking at the AA street plan for longsight. where you mention there being rows of shops and banks comes up on the AA street plan as a shopping center and health centre, if I'm correct. I seem to remember that there were streets of red brick terrace houses on or near that plot. the street i,m trying to put a name to would have been the first street,which was parallel to stockport road.

Hi daid9
right starting from Stanley Grove going to M/c the first street that runs into Stockport Rd was called thingyinson Street it was a very small street it started where the wide corner of the shop that is now called Tammy Girl.a little further up where there is a break in the shops (which allows people to walk through to Asda ) that was Shepley Street there were 3 streets behind that (which is now Asda car park) they were Forbes st ,Coach street and Tunstall street, Oh and at the back of that was Chell street which ran across Stanley grove
But back to Stockport Rd and next to Shepley Street Where the bank is now was a Pub ,quite a big pub called the Railway (closed down years ago then pulled down to make way for this bank
At the back of the pub was a street called Bygraves street but that did not come onto Stockport road
then next to the pub was another street that did come onto Stockport Rd
and that was called Gleeb street and running off Gleeb Street was Gleeb Place which stopped just before Kirkmanshulme Lane

Now Ive named you every street that was in that area before the rebuilding of the area and I can honestly say there was no Malpas street there , but it maybe one of them

If I can help anymore please give me a shout

[daid9]

thanks mike. the map was very helpful. seems i've been searching in the wrong area. i remember there being a car repair garage on the left corner as you turn right off the main road (hyde road?) to enter malpas street.

[bodzy3]

hi daid right, I was in the Central Library to day to check up for you on the Electoral Roll for 1772 and 1969 and 1974 only to find dissapointment ! Why cos Malpass street doesn't appear on any of the rolls, and the reason for that is , it was NOT residental meaning there were no house's there There was a Malpas street in Beswick but that also does not appear in the electoral roll either So i looked in the street directory for different years and there were no residential premmises. yet there is a photo on M/c images showing houses in Malpas street Beswick but that was 1963 and it looks like it was nearly gone then
So the ball is in your court now, as they say, i will certainly look again at any info you can get me if thats what you want , no problem
bodzy

[daid9]

hi bodzy,
sorry it's taken so long to get back to you. i haven't been able to spend much time on the computer lately, just been checking my p.m.'s, thought your reply would come through there.
there is however another favour i'd like to ask.

[bodzy3]

Ok daid9 I know exactly where you want , When we first started this search we consentrated around the Stockport road area in between Kirkmanshulme Lane and Stanley Grove , now if you remember I told you there was a pub on stockport road called the Railway, Well thats where Shepley Street was, at the side of the pub
In relation to malpas street you would have to travel down Kirkmanshulme Lane ,keep to the leftat the traffic lights down Pottery Lane up to Hyde Road, turn right at Hyde Rd for 50yards and do a left into Birch Streetand then second right into Malpas street No Problem

[daid9]

thanks for that bodzy.

[bodzy3]

Hi Daid trufully I cant remember but some how i dont think it was a garage, cos the street was only one car wide and even now its just a walk-way through to Asda at the back, there has been a shoe shop there for years now but like i said i cant rememberif it was a shoe shop then
sorry about that but dont give up next week i'll go to the family history society and check it out
bodzy

[bodzy3]

Hi Daid I have checked on the Kelly's Index for Shepley Sreeet off Stockport Rd for the years from 1935-1967 and this is what i found
on both sides of Shepley Street were shops Alandale green-grocers and Meesons confectioners on the other
in 1961 Waterworth friuters took over from Alandale in 1961 to 1967 the Street was only one car wide and there was no through road except to go back to Stockport road
but i have made a big mistake calling the pub "the Railway " when it should have been called" the Church " as it used to be a spiritual church before becoming a pub cant think where i got the "Railway from but as soon as i saw the Church I knew i was wrong

bodzy
So if that helps i dont know

[daid9]

thanks bodzy,

[bodzy3]

DAID9 i too have a map of Shepley Streetwhich starts at Stockport road but the difference is mine does not show a Byron st or a Mundy Street in fact the street running first right parallel to Stockport rd is called Fordhouse St then one runs off there called Tunstall st and one off there called Coach st then first left off Shepley St is Wynford Street, wich runs into Gleeb St then on to Gleeb Place , So wHich is right I dont know as i am reading the old A-Z I assume mine is a later edition than your map so mine should be in the timeframe of your lifetime
let me know how you get on
bodzy

[daid9]

thanks for your reply.

[bodzy3]

Jan 19, 2009 14:34:08 GMT -1 daid9 said:

thanks for your reply. i spoke to my friend last night on the phone. she lived in shepley st. in 1972. she lived there for five years altogether. she lived at number twenty two, which was first right after coming off stockport road. that would be fordhouse st. on your map. she also remembered byron st. i guess that for some reason the powers that be changed the names of some of those streeets, does that seem logical to you?

daid9 Hi again , yes that sounds very logical from the councils point of view , but for me ,i fail to understand the reasons (but there again we are never told the reasons why they should change the names of the streets i used to live in Gorton in Elm Street and every street was named after a tree , Holly st, Cedar St, Walnut Street and so on Then when i was about 13 the council deceided to change the names Why !! one day Elm St next day Ewan St the mind boggles , but as long as your happy you got the right place in the end No problems bodzy

[daid9]

hi bodzy, thanks once again for all the help you've given