Amazing Manchester Garden Suburbs

Nov. 3, 2021 - PRLog -- The name of Wythenshawe seems to come from the Old English wiðign = "withy tree" and sceaga = "wood".

This beautiful park is set in 109 hectares of open parkland in South Manchester, with historic woodlands, open grassland and meadows. The park is steeped in history and there are three Grade II Listed Buildings located within its boundaries: North Lodge, the Statue of Oliver Cromwell and Wythenshawe Hall.

Wythenshawe was one of the garden suburbs created to tackle the nineteenth-century back-to-back and terraced housing that had deteriorated into slums in Manchester. In 1929 land was bought south of the city for development, much to the horror of some, concerned about the lost of the countryside.

In 1926, to the surprise of the impoverished Manchester suburb - politicians Shena and Ernest Simon of the Labor Party donated the Wythenshawe Park to the city of Manchester for use of the people living on the Wythenshawe estate. A similar theme for residents occurred within the City of London with the built by London County Council between 1918 and 1939.

Cottage-Type Homes With Gardens

Another council house garden rule which most council houses (and housing associations) were given in Wythenshawe and other councils was that the council house tenant should ensure that their gardens are kept to a 'satisfactory standard'. The hard-working dedicated residents were green-thumbed and understood community. Two slogans were adopted: 'nothing great is ever won without toil' and Beautiful gardens make happy homes' as illustrated:

Homes With Edible Gardens

The working-class rural gardener had once been the mainstream of Great Britain. We again must ignite this passion for edible gardens.

As documented in a chapter entitled 'All About Gardening' G. H. Preston John Coutts (Author):

Old cultivars... lingered much longer, often much more than a century longer and occasionally for several centuries longer, in the cottage gardens than in the gardens of the prosperous burgesses or of the rich. The fact is that the cottage gardener, if only by his want of means, did a public service by preserving, for later generations who might again appreciate them, old garden plants banished from the great gardens and the gardens of the middle class.

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