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Sharston Hall

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From 1941 until 1957 Sharston Hall's coach house served as Wythenshawe's fire station. In 1948 the Sharston Community Association, founded that same year, was allocated part of the hall for use as a community centre. Two years later the association took over the entire house, expanding in 1957 to
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By the late 1960s the hall was in a poor state of repair and was boarded up. Sharston Hall was demolished in 1986, replaced by offices in a sympathetic 18th-century style – or what Pevsner's architectural guide calls a parody of it – and houses.
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until 1856, when the last male heir died. The hall was occupied by the Henriques family in the 1920s, but following their death in a motor accident in 1932 the house was converted into
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and was involved in a head-on collision with a tram travelling in the opposite direction. Both Henriques and his wife died on their way to
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David Q. Henriques was a Manchester stockbroker and magistrate. He apparently lost control of the car he was driving in
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additions, it was purchased by Thomas Worthington, an early umbrella tycoon, and occupied by the
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also occupy the coach house then recently vacated by the fire service.
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Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2004),
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Demolished buildings and structures in Greater Manchester
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for use by the police, civil defence and fire services.
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Index

manor house
Sharston
Wythenshawe
Manchester
Victorian
Worthington family
flats
watch committee
Hazel Grove
Stockport Infirmary


"Halls Farms & Cottages"



Deakin (1989)
Deakin (1983)
"Man and Wife Killed: Motor's Terrible Crash with Tram"
British Newspaper Archive
Cooper (2007)


Deakin (1989)
Deakin (1989)
Deakin (1989)
Hartwell, Hyde & Pevsner (2004)
ISBN
978-1-85983-592-0
ISBN

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