Friends of Longford Park are delighted to share the news that Trafford Council’s Lottery bid for Longford Park has been successful. Click to access the link to Trafford’s website.

In Old Stretford, Bosdin Leech recalls that on Edge Lane, there were very few houses east of Stretford railway station around 1860.  However, this soon began to change and two early examples were the large houses known as Rye Bank and Meadow Bank, which at a later date came to be separated by Rye Bank Road. The rate books suggest