Six Houses, Ellor Street

TO BE SOLD – Six substantially built and well-tenanted dwelling houses, situate in Ellor Street, Pendleton, either with or without land for six more adjoining. For particulars and to see plan of the same, apply to Mr W H Hodson, architect and surveyor, 18 St Ann Street, Manchester. [Manchester Guardian 30 August 1851 page 2]

By the 1930s this was among the most impoverished districts in the country, made infamous by Walter Greenwood’s novel “Love on the Dole.” The whole area was demolished as part of the slum clearances of the 1960s.

Reference           Manchester Guardian 30 August 1851 page 2 - classified