Photographs of Cheadle in the 1870s
A rare picture of Abney Hall with its original two storey conservatory. The conservatory was removed by James Watts when the bay window was extended in the 1890s
Young boys stand on the unmade road outside the George and Dragon pub many years before it had its mock Tudor facade added.
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The Cheadle to Manchester horse-drawn bus, with several passengers on the upper desk, stops along its journey. A particularly notable feature about the bus is that it is being pulled by three identical pure white horses.
A horse drawn bus with passengers on board stands outside the White Hart Hotel.
A horse drawn bus with several passengers on the upper deck is about to depart from the White Hart Hotel for Didsbury and Palatine Road.
Local entrepeneur Fletcher Moss and other passengers board a new horse-drawn bus service in 1876 between Cheadle and Manchester. The Cheadle terminus is outside the White Hart Hotel.
A horse drawn taxi waits outside the White Hart Hotel in heavy snow with St Mary's church in the background.
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