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Mawdsley Street is a residential street in Weatherfield, connecting with Rosamund Street on the west side and Viaduct Street on the east. Built in 1902, the street is comprised of a row of nine terraced houses, all of which lead out into the ginnel connecting it with the terrace houses of Coronation Street, Weatherfield which is located behind.

At some point there was a chapel on the street, where Emily Nugent married Ernie Bishop on 5th April 1972. The street contained a public phone box which was decommissioned, though not removed, and became a mini-library for residents.

History[]

Construction[]

By the turn of the century, Sir Humphrey Swinton's vision of new Weatherfield was taking shape. Tenements were being cleared and demolished, and replaced by modern working class housing. Two of the last streets to be constructed were Mawdsley Street and Albert Street, two rows of terraced houses built in the shadow of Hardcastle's Mill, a major centre of employment since 1882. The new houses were partially intended as accommodation for the mill's workers, and Charles Hardcastle was involved in their planning. Upon Swinton's death in 1900, his mistress Mabel Grimshaw saw his plans to completion.

In keeping with most local streets, the houses in Swinton's streets were typical two-up-two-down terraces. Each of the seven houses in Albert Street consisted of a front room, a living/dining room with a coal fire for heating and an adjoining scullery on the ground floors and three bedrooms on the upper floors. They contained no indoor lavatories, with outdoor toilets installed in the backyards.

Construction of the terraces was completed on 8th August 1902, one day before the coronation of King Edward VII.

List of buildings in Mawdsley Street[]

3 Mawdsley Street, home to the Hawker family. The family was one of the worst affected by the tuberculosis epidemic in late 1904 and lost nine members in a month.

6 Mawdsley Street, formerly the family home of Edna Barlow.

7 Mawdsley Street, the home of Percy and Martha Longhurst after they married in 1919; later home to the Andrews family.

10 Mawdsley Street, hit by a bomb in the Manchester Blitz in 1940, killing Madge Mason who was standing nearby.

15 Mawdsley Street, home to Len Fairclough from 1946 until 1968, when he knocked the house down to expand his builder's yard situated behind it.

16 Mawdsley Street, home to the widowed Daisy Todd and her children. Daisy felt less suffocated when the clan moved out and into 9 Coronation Street in 1926, but she ended up joining them at No.9 when the property became uninhabitable due to the bomb which hit during the Manchester Blitz of 1940.

17 Mawdsley Street, which was in 1989 home to Norman Hargreaves and his wife.

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