Ponderosa became a waste tip when the works closed. It had as couple of chimneys for kilns and or
steam engines. Maps and aerial photos shows a railway bridge on Groby Rd over the Denton and Dukinfield
line in front of thes hooley hill tunnel with no apparent purpose.
Audenshaw reservoir - Large man made lakes built in the late 1800's by Manchester council on old parts
of mainly agricultural Audenshaw and Denton. Historically, their purpose and current use remain a mystery
to the people living around them.
Cardboard hill - slope on the edge of Peter Pan park down to Shepely estate and the river Tame.
Used by children in hot dry weather to slide down when the grass was less verdant.
May have been a dumping ground for Hooley hill cardboard box makers?
Cock lane - now Stamford road and was previously Earl Stamford’s land - probably named to show the boundary of Lord Stamford’s possession.
Corporation road - probably named as Manchester council owned the land (aka the corporation) and
built the road possibly as a replacement for Taylor lane which was included in its reservoir.
Enville street & Groby road - names of parts of Earl Stamford's estate in Staffordshire (7th Earls birthplace) and Leicestershire respectively.
King George the 5th playing fields - AKA Peter Pan park. After the death of King George V, the
Memorial fund or my
Memorial fund was used to provide a large number of parks and playing fields.
There is an entrance plaque at the bottom of Bank St. The park is close to the
Dukinfield border and
the river Tame.
Paddy walk - probably existing local pathways and short cut used by navies during construction work
of railways and waterworks in the 19th century.
Wall of death - Coined before the 1970's, this is located somewhere below Jones sewing machines. It is
between the Paradise Street
entry to St Georges playing field and railway bridge over the river Tame. Its possibly above the disused railway line which runs by the river. The wall of death may have become
muddled with an apocryphal story of a train falling off the Denton & Dukinfield line into the river.
Its plausable that this has become confused with a works bus from Audenshaw that crashed through the river Tame bridge on Shepley
Road, dated 5th dec 1955.
