Rusholme Theatre below, now a petrol station & Spar supermarket
I would like to pay tribute to others before me who have written about Rusholme:
William Royle who 100 years ago published his History of Rusholme, (extended & revised in 1912);
John Shaw Buckley, the former Headmaster of Birch School who published in 1910 'A History of Birch-in-Rusholme';
More recently in the early 1970's Peter Helm & Gay Sussex produced 'Looking back at Rusholme & Fallowfield'.
Recently another book, published 2006, 'Rusholme & Victoria Park' by Jill Cronin & Frank Rhodes.
I hope that I will be able to continually add to, and update the site with more memorabilia & historical information about Rusholme & Victoria Park.
Friends to thank who have encouraged me and provide material & help with this website
I would particularly like to thank Peter Helm who has generously loaned many items from his collection & is always prepared to answer questions about the history of Rusholme.
Thanks to another friend in Rusholme, Stuart Bayley, who has also generously loaned some very fine pictures.
Harry Spooner in Rusholme is another colleague who provides every census question that I have with a quick and comprehensive answer.
Special thanks to Chris & Matt who set up the website for me at PagePlay, their knowledge and advice has made the website so easy for me to manage
1833 receipt below from Luke Parkinson, grocer on Rusholme Road.
Cold cream of Roses from the Post Office
Victoria Park Toothpaste
I have decided that this website should go 'live' before I have finished loading all of the presently available memorabilia etc.
The further pages that are planned will include Victoria Park, Dickenson Rd through to Longsight, & biographical information about William Royle.
From the Birch Villa - an empty flask
You can search the website by entering a keyword in th search box at the top of each page
Unlike the books referred to earlier, this website will be a continuing project and will not have a cut-off date when the book has to go to press.
Any new information about Rusholme & Victoria Park will always be welcome.
I hope that visitors to the website will be prepared to loan such items and you may have family members or friends who have memories of past events in Rusholme that I can also record & publish on this website.
Contact: admin@rusholmearchive.org
1934 Silver Watch Fob, Cup winners.
'A little bit of cheek' ?
Picture Postcards - The e-mail, text or mobile phone of their time!
Many of the illustrations used in this website are picture postcards, they were cheap to buy, cheap to post & contained a short message that could be reliably delivered very quickly.
Now they are a wonderful source of illustrations!
Wherever you see a 'Gallery' of smaller pictures as below then click on the picture and it will expand! On some pages you will have the opportunity to view other pictures on the Manchester Central Library Images website. This is a remarkable collection of city-wide photographs. After you have viewed that picture you will need to press the 'back button' on your browser to come back to this website.
