Tunnels & secret passageways

[She]

Whats BLUE OVAL PLATE? Have you a photo? Joking aside.....I may just do that. Several hundred people.....really!

[Podstar66]

Maybe we could put up our own version of the English Heritage, Blue Oval Plaques, 'NH' plaques for 'Newton Heritage'

Pod

[bob]

Just searched the Rityat name, the only one i can find is this one -
JAMES RIDYAT
Marriages:
Spouse: MARY HAMPSON Family
Marriage:
18 APR 1750 Cathedral, Manchester, Lancashire, England,

She, the Blue plates -
like this

blue plate.jpg

bob

[radman]

just came across another small cockpit clue from PMC in Lanes...

cockpit.JPG

[radman]

I forgot that I had "acquired" this picture a few weeks back, the large building was identified as the cockpit by someone who was supposedly onsite working for Lord Newton when it was demolished in 1966.

Even if it's not the cockpit it's still a really nice picture of that area of town

Woodlegh, Priory, Willows & Cockpit (Big Builing Behind LN Office Park Rd N. Demolished in 1966 by Lord Newton's Workmen).jpg

[She]

Brilliant photo. Do you mean the large building on the corner of Willow Road or is it the square building behind the Kirkfield?
If its the square building (the other looks like a house) then its exactly where are 2 friends described it to be.

I could spend ages looking at this photo.

[radman]

The square building behind the Kirkfield. It was mentioned that it was behind Lord Newton's office on park road North.

[mike59]

I think that picture you "acquired" Andrew, was one I put on the other channel.

The square building behind the Kirkfield was the Estates Office of Mr. Legh, on Park Rd. The one on the corner of Willow Rd was 'The Alders,' the one set back on the High St, where the tyre place is now, was 'Woodlegh,' and the other building[s] behind St Peters were 'The Priory' and 'The Willows.'

Mike

[Sonofacalendarman]

I think that picture you "acquired" Andrew, was one I put on the other channel.

The square building behind the Kirkfield was the Estates Office of Mr. Legh, on Park Rd. The one on the corner of Willow Rd was 'The Alders,' the one set back on the High St, where the tyre place is now, was 'Woodlegh,' and the other building[s] behind St Peters were 'The Priory' and 'The Willows.'

Mike

Are you looking at the same building Mike? I see the one that the others are talking about and it is set back behind the houses on Park road. The estate offices, as far as I understood it, are the two white cottages which are the last houses before the flats now built on the Civic hall site.

[mike59]

With respect Sonofacalenderman, could I ask who you are?

Mike.

[mike59]

I think you need to read the last couple of posts again, and pay special reference to She's reply.

Mike

[Sonofacalendarman]

Hopefully this section of the photo will better explain what I'm asking.

I think the square building everyone is referring to is the one I've put a red box around. What I've always understood to be the Estate offices is the rooftop that I've put the blue box around.

So am I looking at the same 'square' building as everyone else, and are you saying that this was also part of the estates offices?

[Sonofacalendarman]

Present day front view of the houses I've marked in the blue box.

[bob]

here is another angle for you to consider, taken in the 30s i guess.
Bob

another angle.jpg

[Chorlton1]

Since everything else seems to have been thrown into this thread I was wondering Mcfalls is built on such a prominent position and we know it has a water source underneath feeding the horse trough also it has tunnels running underneath could this also be a good castle location? It always strikes me that there is alot of stone used to line roads was it all cut specially for this purpose or was it reused from unother location such as a disused castle?