Photographs Related To Baguley Hall Farm
Mayer, Roger, b 1900, of Heyhead, Manchester
1900-1969
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Title:
Photographs Related To Baguley Hall Farm
Date of work:
1900-1969
Reference number:
GB124.DPA/1718
Level of description:
Sub-fonds from Fonds: Documentary Photographic Archive (GB124.DPA)
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Custodial history:
Mr. Mayer is the youngest of a family of five boys and two girls. He was born on Oct. 28th 1900. His family farmed at Sandlebridge Farm, Warford, near Alderlêy Edge, and moved to Baguley Hall Farm in about 1905 because the David Lewis Colony was being built and taking over farmland in the Warford area. They could choose a farm in Handforth or Baguley Hall Farm. The old farmhouse is in the process of being renovated for Manchester Corporation at the moment - the main hall is thought to date back to the fourteenth century. In 1948 he was given notice to move with only three months notice instead of the year he should have had. The 300 acre farm was run as a mixed farm. It had been owned by the Tatton family, until Manchester Corporation bought the land in 1926. A family called Marsland had the farm before the Mayers.
Mr. Mayer moved to another farm on the Tatton Estate, Birkinheath Farm at Rostherne, Cheshire. The hay he produced went into Manchester, and the milk to a dairy in Fallowfield. In 1965 he retired and moved to Heyhead to be near his only daughter Una who had married Bernard Halman, of Holly Bank and Poplar Grove Farms, Heyhead, both run as market gardens.
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Record types:
Greater Manchester County Record Office
Language:
English
Record number:
7202272
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