Whalley Range
It was built by Manchester banker and businessman Samuel Brooks, who came from Whalley, as "a desirable estate for gentlemen and their families" in the 1830s.  It had to be drained, and it was crossed by a large number of streams, most of which are now covered. There was a railway station - Wilbraham Road railway station - which was made for the Alexandra Park Aerodrome, which is to the South.  It closed to passengers in 1958.  In 1964  Granada Television used the disused buildings as Chorltonville, a southern U.S.-style station, for a programme called Blues and Gospel Train with Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Rev. Gary Davis and Cousin Joe Pleasant.