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1544: A settlement document describes widespread property attached to Strangeways Hall, including 24 houses, 20 town properties, 20 cottages, and various land up to several miles away.
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1864: Completion of building of the Assize Courts on the site of Strangeways Hall. (It was destroyed in the 1939-1945 Blitz and its site is now a car park on Great Ducie Street).
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1624: John Hartley (1609-1655) bought Strangeways Hall. His father Nicholas Hartley and elder brother Richard were wool merchants in Manchester.
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1768: Francis Reynolds granted a lease to Robert Norton to build a house and silk dyeing works by the Hall's fish pond.
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Until the 19th century, Strangeways was a rural village, with Strangeways Hall, Park and Gardens.
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Link to part of Pigot's map of Strangeways area in 1813; the blue arrow marks Strangeways Hall.
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1868: Strangeways Prison opened. It was built on the site of Strangeways Hall's fish ponds.
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Early 18th century: A grey stucco, palladian-style addition to Strangeways Hall was built.
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A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland
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1641: Strangeways Hall appears on a map. It was in Elizabethan or Jacobean style.
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1777: Strangeways Hall first known to be let to a tenant (Hugh Oldham).
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originated in the village adopted the earlier spelling as a surname.
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1859: A newspaper report that the Hall was "several times rebuilt".
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1459: First known mention of the de Strangeways family in the area.
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meaning " a stream with a strong current". It was also recorded as
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Strangeways Prison, seen from Derby Street, down Blacklock Street
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late 19th century: Jewish immigration to the area, fleeing from
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1858: Strangeways Hall demolished and its materials sold
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1816: Start of the area being built over with houses.
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Manchester
Strangeways Prison
city centre

Anglo-Saxon
Strangways family

Strangeways Brewery
Boddingtons
Bitter
boarding school
Manchester and Leeds Railway Company
Manchester Victoria station
violence in Russia
The Place-names of Lancashire
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland
"The bitter end for Boddies"
Link to part of Pigot's map of Strangeways area in 1813; the blue arrow marks Strangeways Hall.
Development of Strangeways
Image of Strangeways Hall
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