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Family Quest - Looking for an historic address in Manchester

Hi! My other half's grandmother was born in England. She was born on a street which apparently no longer exists by the same name.

We realize that the original property where she lived is long gone. All we want to do is find the approximate location of Adeline Street in Manchester. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!!

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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. :-)

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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.