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Maine Road Football Club is a football club, based in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England. Founded in 1955 by Manchester City supporters, they are currently members of the North West Counties League Division One North and play at Brantingham Road.
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British Muslim Heritage Centre
The British Muslim Heritage Centre, formerly the GMB National College, College Road, Whalley Range, Manchester, England, is an early Gothic Revival building. The centre was designated a Grade II* listed building on 3 October 1974.
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St Werburgh's Road tram stop
St Werburgh's Road is a Manchester Metrolink tram stop in south Manchester, England. It is historically located in the Hough End area, though it is now commonly regarded as being part of Chorlton-cum-Hardy. It is on the South Manchester Line, in fare zones 2 and 3. This stop was constructed and opened as part of Phase 3a of the network's expansion on 7 July 2011; it has step-free access.
This stop is located on a former railway trackbed, at the former Chorlton Junction where the Manchester South District Line and Fallowfield Loop Line converged. The railway lines were left derelict when they closed; however, the Fallowfield Loop was converted to a shared-use path in the early 2000s. Part of the Manchester South District Line's trackbed was restored and converted to Metrolink; however, this tram stop itself is not a converted railway station.
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Manley Hall, Manchester
Manley Hall was a large house in Whalley Range, Manchester. It was a two-storey Victorian Italianate building with fifty rooms, very grandly furnished and with a fine art collection. It stood in 80 acres (32 ha) of exotic gardens with artificial lakes and many greenhouses in which orchids were grown.
The house was built for the wealthy businessman Samuel Mendel and was completed in 1857. Mendel occupied the house from 1858. Born in Liverpool of Jewish origin he was the so-called "Merchant Prince" of Manchester's textile industry, who made a fortune by providing the fastest export routes round the Cape of Good Hope to India and Australia. At the height of his commercial success he converted from Judaism to High Church Anglicanism, and became a significant local figure as trustee of St Clement's Church, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, despite Manley Hall being outside the Parish boundary. When the Suez Canal opened in 1869 he lost his commercial advantage and in 1875 was forced to sell Manley Hall and its contents. The contents of the house were sold in an auction that lasted five days.
A second sale was held on 9 July 1879 by order of the Court of Chancery for the County Palatine and was bought by Mendell for £85,000. In 1879 a company formed to buy the estate and turn the gardens into a public pleasure park which failed after two years. Its most famous visitor was "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show". The grounds were then progressively sold for housing and the hall itself finally demolished in 1905. Manley Park playing fields is the only part of the original grounds which has not been built over.
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Hough End tram stop
Hough End tram stop was a proposed tram stop on the phase 3b plans to Manchester Airport. It was originally due to open in 2016 but was dropped from the plans.