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        semi detached properties,
        some rows of terraced houses
        and a lot of shops.
            But beyond the railway
        line, east as far as Withington
        Road, Lord Egerton’s grand
        highway continued to be
        bordered by fields and the
        casual traveller would have
        had clear views of the
        orchard beside Hobson’s Hall                               Hobson’s Hall Farm 1952
        Farm, along with Whalley Farm, and, in the distance, the fast
        growing estate of Whalley Range.
            And, if he or she ventured off the road onto the fields, they
        could have walked north to Longford Brook which snaked, open
        to the skies, across the fields, or on a whim head south till they
        were stopped by the railway tracks of the Manchester Sheffield
        and Lincolnshire Railway and that of the Manchester Central
        Station Line.






































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