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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