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The Old Manor House is on Chain Bar Lane at the back of Hattersley Estate.
Probably only the TV aerial and the security camera give away the fact that this is a recent photograph.
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I know nothing of its history.
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9 comments:
a mysterious history!
ROG, ABC Wednesday team
What a wonderful house. I like it.
Beautiful house! It looks like it's got a story to tell.
Erika B
educational and insightful o post.
I am intrigued by the old manor house and also the name of the road, Chain Bar. Do you know the origins of the name?
HelenMac, ABC team
Subsequent research has revealed that the "Old Manor House" as it is now called was originally the Horseshoe public house.
Hi Gerald, been very interested in this investigation into the house on Chain Bar lane, known as the Old Manor House, which you say now was the PH known as the Horseshoe. Could you please let me know if there is any proof to this idea. According to the CC tithe maps there were two PH's on Chain Bar Lane, one the Old Manor house (is this a made up name??) and the other slightly further up, which is now demolished. The tithe map shows the occupier of the demolished one to be Aaron Williamson which I have as the landlord of the Horseshoe in 1843. Also there is further confusion as the pub seemed to change it's name to the Blacksmiths Arms around 1824 and then back to the Horseshoe in 1843. The possibility exists that these were the names of the two pubs on Chain Bar Lane. Further confusion exists in the fact that Chain Bar Lane is not in Hyde, I believe the address is in Mottram. Most interested in your thoughts
Paul Taylor
Paul
All I know is from what Dave Williams posted on http://hydonian.blogspot.com/2011/03/horseshoe-public-house.html He apparently spoke to the current owner. Mottram & Hattersley are postcoded SK14 and have a Hyde postal address.
Norman the pigeon man lived there from the 60’s through to the 80’s he was living in it and it was derelict with pigeons living in it.
This was the centre of old hattersley as the hamlet. And chain bar was ash worth lane or Stockport road being the old pack horse route from the salt mines of Cheshire through wished to Yorkshire , they would have died in Yorkshire if it wasn’t for salt on their fish and chips.
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