Ford Lane towards Bradley Fold allotments

Compare this picture with the photograph from 1944.

Ford Lane towards Didsbury village

Ford Lane towards the allotments

Compare this scene with the 1942 photograph.

Ford Lane towards Didsbury village

Compare this scene with the 1950 photograph.

Ford Lane towards the allotments

Compare this view with the 1927 photograph.

Ford Lane towards the allotments

Ford Lane towards Didsbury village

Note damage to the grassy knoll caused by vehicles.

Ford Lane towards Didsbury village

The original lane went to the right of the grassy knoll.

Ford Lane, with Broomcroft Hall in the distance

Ford Lane from Deneford Road

The old Ford (Carr Brow) Lane emerged from just right of the red car.

Holt House pictured from the junction of Ford Lane and Deneford Road

Right of the gate once stood an entrance drive that went past a lodge before reaching Highfield Mansion, now the site of Highfield on Dene Road. A wall, once marking the boundary of the land belonging to the Ashton and Levinstein families and now partially hidden, extends from this point to Dene Road and then alongside other properties on the other side of the road. Compare this picture with the 1961 photograph taken from a similar position.

The Whitehouse, Ford Lane

From 1960 until her death in 1972, this was the home of Lady Shena Simon, the well-known Manchester politician and educational reformer. Formerly, she and her late husband, Lord Simon of Wythenshawe, had resided for many years at Broomcroft Hall.