Daisy Bank Road

This was once an entry point into Victoria Park, a Toll Gate and Booth sat across Daisy Bank Lane.






Ahead at the junction with Longford Place is the former Calvanistic Methodist Church, now home to the Victoria Park Christian Fellowship.








The junction with Laindon Road.




Once a family home called Hirstwood, now the Methodist International House.




This house, on the corner of Scarsdale Road, was built in 1914 and features a castellated corner tower.  The name on the gate post is Chadlington.










Across the road is The Limes, once a family home now used by the charity Chapter 1.  It provides,  "... supported housing for 26 young men. The accommodation provided consists of a detached house with twenty furnished single rooms spread over 3 floors and an annexe building at the rear with six furnished rooms over 2 floors."




Back across the road again is Summerville, home between 1857 and 1858 by Lt Col Sir Harry Smith who, among his other roles in life, was once the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.  The city of Ladysmith in South Africa is named after his wife.  In 1859 William Kessler, a prominent Manchester Mercant, became the occupant until 1904.  After the Kesslers left Summerville, it was converted into the Unitarian College.







Today Summerville contains fully furnished apartments.




Newbury was once home to Sir Harry Platt, an eminent orthopaedic surgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. Prior to that it had been a nursing home for soldiers in the second world war.  Today it appears to be an addiction rehabilitation facility.




Addison Terrace was built between 1848 and 1850 and comprises six pairs of houses making up a terrace.  Number 102 was home to Charles Hallé after whom Manchester Symphony Orchestra is named, and later it was occupied by the artist Ford Madox Brown, while he was working on the murals in the great hall of Manchester Town Hall.






Beyond Addison Terrace on the same side of the road are three stucco buildings that make up Buckingham Crescent.




Number 4 Buckingham Crescent, also known as 114 Daisy Bank Road, was once home to Emmeline Pankhust and her daughters, Manchester's famous suffragettes.  I think that the house on the right below is number 114.








On the south side of the road at this point is a church designed by the Middleton and Manchester architect Edgar Wood.  It was built as the First Church of Christ Scientist in 1903 - 1904.  Today it is home to the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God.





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