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looking for a place in the manchester area chorlton-on-medlock if any one can help please. chris australia

It is bounded by Rusholme, Moss Side, Ardwick and Hulme. Its area includes the University of Manchester and the Manchester Museum, and flowing though it, hidden for the most part, is the River Medlock, which gives the district its name. Chorlton on Medlock starts at the Mancunian Way flyover just south of the city centre. It lies between Upper Brook Street, Plymouth Grove and Ardwick Green. Stockport Road goes through the area, giving good access to south Manchester. Until the 19th century it had been a small country village, but the Industrial Revolution and the building of Chorlton Mills catapulted it into the urban landscape which it now is. By 1900 its population had multiplied a hundred fold as people flocked in to live in filthy slum houses and work in the new textile factories that abounded within its borders. Its back-to-back jerry-built houses were the most distinctive feature of the Mancunian industrial landscape and typified the worst excesses of profiteering and human exploitation by unscrupulous mill owners and landlords. The Chorlton mills occupied land alongside the Medlock between Oxford Street, Cambridge Street and Chester Street. The area around Rosamund Street, Charles Street and Jenkinson Street became known as "Little Ireland" due to the large numbers of Irish immigrant workers living there. This place came to be synonymous with all the evils and squalour of unregulated industrialisation for Manchester became notorious.

On some sites the registration of bmd shows the area to be chorlton,then the numbers. This covers a wide area of manchester not just those shown above.

Hi Chris Have you got rellies who lived in Chorlton around 1900 - my g.g.g uncle was police officer there. He was married with two kids but can't trace them. Hazel