Family Quest - Looking for an historic address in Manchester

If you get over there, you might start at the Greater Manchester Archive in the Central Library.

Edit - You might find on the "Manchester N/W and Salford 1915 Ordnance Survey Map" which is available on-line if you register or you can purchase it. I see an Adeline Street referenced in block A5 of sheet 104.06.

2 minutes searching has suggested that it was just north of the city centre, very close the the Manchester Arena. I'm going out today (make the most of a little sun!), I'll finish it tomorrow (rain due again...) and PM you the details.

or even give some of the details on the Forum so other interested individuals who do a bit of genealogy can follow the saga.....

It's taken me less than 10 minutes online to find a 1923 map of Manchester that shows Adeline St is located between Red Bank and Cheetham Hill Road, just north of Victoria Station, close to the recent bombing.

Adeline St no longer exists, as there is now a Park Inn hotel, several blocks of flats and a food store on what was the road. It's near Colenso Way.

This whole part of Manchester has been redeveloped, so, unfortunately, you aren't going to get any feeling of what it was like if you visit, as you will see if you look on Streetview.

Wow, that is absolutely fabulous Keith!! What a resource.

This article below isn't Adeline Street, but it is just across the road, so the background history maybe useful:-

https://library.thehumanjourney.net/2382/1/Brighton_Street_complete_rep%20smaller.pdf

The mill mentioned on Adeline St was hit in the Manchester blitz in WW2. Adeline St was still shown on maps as recently as 1960, but there are more maps of 1870 online than there are of 1970, so I am struggling thereafter.

A further article on the Green Quarter - what was Adeline St

http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/tours/tour12/greenquarter.html

Prior to development, the site had been cleared and used as a car park since at least 1997.

First of all - Sam, SteveB, Nigel, Jennifer & Keith - thank you for your responses! Seriously, thank you! I was so overwhelmed when I first started looking at this, but you have helped me take something abstract and make it more solid!

We have yet to make it to Manchester, but once I located the census records it became something of a quest/obsession to find the general area where my other half's grandmother (and great grandparents!) lived. I knew that the neighborhood would look vastly different, but we were thinking how cool it would be to at least find the general part of town where his grandmother lived. We are now looking at spending three days in that part of England next year, so I am trying to plan ahead to maximize our time there. We want to go find the Grandma's old neighborhood in its new form, take a picture, and say we were there.

Short version of the genealogy: That side of the family had emigrated from Tsarist Russia to England between 1888 and 1893. Grandma was born in Manchester in 1900. I have located the family on both the 1901 census (Adeline Street) as well as on the 1911 census (different address & also no longer residential but available to see on Google view). Sometime after that, Grandma and several members of the family (large family, part of which we didn't even know existed until I found the census records) emigrated to the U.S.

Anyway, thank you all so much for taking the time to help with my search and post the response here. :-)

Manchester gets a bad rap as a place to visit, but I spent two days there as part of a trip also including Glasgow and Liverpool, and I thoroughly enjoyed my time there. More details are in my trip report here: https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/trip-reports/uk-trip-report-glasgow-manchester-liverpool-in-september-2016

The area where your grandmother-in-law lived may no longer look like it did when she lived there, but other parts of the center, particularly those near the Museum of Science and Industry, are much less changed.

one problem you will have doing google searches for Manchester is that you are not in UK - which means you'll get pages of results about New Hampshire, Vermont etc etc. Because we can use google.co.uk we have the option to restrict answers to UK only - but I suspect google's built in "intelligence" will divert you back to the .com version if you have an IP address in the USA. And in years to come you'll have a car that insists it takes you to where it thinks you mean.........

anyway, whilst I was out in what little sun we've had recently others did some digging as well. As I suspected Adeline St is now covered by the Park Inn by Radision. Which means if you ever need to get close to it with a GPS or modern internet map you can try the Park Inns postcode of M4 4EW instead! But you might like this map from 1908,

https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/384158/399290/12/100674

it will probably appear blue to show print extent but there are two icons at the top right, click the first one and it should switch this off. Comparing with modern Google maps I'd say the factory part of Adeline St is almost the same as Colenso Way, although the southern edge of that is on the northern edge of what was Adeline St. The residential part of the street turned around the corner to be parallel with Cheetham Hill Road (still exists) until that turned as well and they met. The junction of Cheetham Hill Road and Adeline St is very important to shop-aholics in the UK and elsewhere. It's where another Jewish refugee from the Russian Empire lived for a while and opened a shop, he was Michael Marks and the shop was the worlds first Marks & Spencer!

Edit: if you use google maps and search for M4 4EW then keep zooming in, a small road called Victoria Place will emerge (really the drop off road for the hotel and office building). This is what has become of the end of Adeline St.

Thanks again for all the replies! :-) You have all been so helpful!