Strangeways, Manchester

History

Strangeways Brewery

Timeline

• 1459: First known mention of the de Strangeways family in the area.
• 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.
• 1641: Strangeways Hall appears on a map. It was in Elizabethan or Jacobean style.
• 1624: John Hartley bought Strangeways Hall. His father Nicholas Hartley and elder brother Richard were wool merchants in Manchester.
• Early 18th century: A grey stucco, palladian-style addition to Strangeways Hall was built.
• 1713: The Reynolds family took over the hall.
• 1768: Francis Reynolds granted a lease to Robert Norton to build a house and silk dyeing works by the Hall's fish pond.
• 1777: Strangeways Hall first known to be let to a tenant.
• 1788: Strangeways Hall was run as a girls' boarding school.
• 1816: Start of the area being built over with houses.
• 1838: Land in Strangeways area was sold to the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company; Manchester Victoria station is there now.
• 1858: Strangeways Hall demolished and its materials sold
• 1859: A newspaper report that the Hall was "several times rebuilt".
• 1864: Completion of building of the Assize Courts on the site of Strangeways Hall..
• 1868: Strangeways Prison opened. It was built on the site of Strangeways Hall's fish ponds.
• late 19th century: Jewish immigration to the area, fleeing from violence in Russia.