HARPURHEY

'Harpurhey' is a district of the City of Manchester, in North West England. It is approximately three miles northeast of Manchester City Centre.
Notable attractions include the "World Famous Bernard Manning Embassy Club".
It serves as the centre for this suburb, with a large daily market and shopping district, as well as local police station and leisure centre. Areas of Harpurhey included Kingsbridge Estate, Barnes Green, Shiredale Estate and Baywood Estate.

Contents

History

Governance

Geography

Transport

Notable people

Trivia

References

History

Harpurhey is recorded in 1320 as ''Harpourhey'', meaning "hedged enclosure by a man called Harpour", who owned the area in the 14th century.^[1]
In 1868, Harpurhey Cemetery became the final resting place of Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy.^[2]

Governance

Harpurhey is represented on Manchester City Council by three Labour Party councillors:

★ Patrick Karney

★ Joanne Green

★ Paul Fairweather
More information on these Councillors can be found on the Manchester City Council website [1]

Geography

Transport

Harpurhey is served by a number of bus services on the main Rochdale Road corridor, as well as non-radial services to and from Salford and Oldham.
Additionally when the Manchester Metrolink light rail tram system is installed on the Manchester to Rochdale via Oldham Line railway line, two stations are proposed close to Harpurhey - one at Monsall and one at Central Park (North Manchester Business Park, which borders Newton Heath) ^[3].

Notable people

Harpurhey was the birthplace of the novelist Anthony Burgess.

Trivia

★ The Little and Large comic duo started their careers in Harpurhey.
(Little and Large started in Norbrook Boys Club where they met)

★ Les Dawson worked as a butcher in Harpurhey before his comedy career blossomed.

★ Freddie Garrity lived in Brewery (now renamed Brewster) Street.

References

1. Dictionary of English Place-Names (2nd ed), , A D, Mills, Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-19-280074-4
2. Greater Manchester's Mysterious Sites
3. Metrolink Phase 3 - Rochdale, July 2006 (PDF)