Old Trafford is an area of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. It is mainly notable for the presence of two major sporting venues. Trafford is a metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. ... Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England established in 1974 which covers an area roughly encompassing the conurbation surrounding the City of Manchester. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi   - Water (%) Population...

• Old Trafford Football Stadium - Home of Manchester United F.C.
• Old Trafford Cricket Ground - Home of Lancashire County Cricket Club.

The two stadiums are at either end of Warwick Road, two parts of which have been renamed Brian Statham Way and Sir Matt Busby Way. Only the interconnecting strip of road between the stadiums now retains the name Warwick Road. Old Trafford redirects here. ... Manchester United Football Club is a world famous English football club. ... Old Trafford cricket ground has been the home of Lancashire County Cricket Club since 1856. ... Lancashire County Cricket Club is an English first-class cricket club based at Old Trafford cricket ground, Manchester. ...

Boundaries

Old Trafford is a ward of Stretford and is situated south-west of Manchester city centre along the main arteries of Kings Road, Ayres Road, Stretford Road, Chester Road and the Bridgewater Way. It is the area that falls between the two sports stadiums in the south and the neighbouring districts of Hulme and Moss Side to the north. Old Trafford is the part of Trafford Borough nearest to Manchester city centre and the least prosperous part of the borough. The crossroads sites of two old toll gates also delineate the borders of the area: Brooks's Bar to the north and Trafford Bar to the south. The Stretford area in total covers Stretford, Old Trafford, Gorse Hill, Trafford Park and Firs Wood. Location within the British Isles Stretford is an urban area to the south-west of Manchester in the north-west of England. ... This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... Moss Side is an area of Manchester in England. ...

History

Old Trafford was a crossing point over the River Irwell in ancient times. It became an urban area after the building of the Manchester Ship Canal in the 1890s. The River Irwell is a river in Lancashire in England that flows through central Manchester before joining the River Mersey, and one of the rivers that drove the Industrial Revolution. ... The canal at its Manchester end, looking towards Old Trafford. ... The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no...

Earlier in the Victorian era Old Trafford came to prominence as the site of the Royal Horticultural and Botanical Gardens which staged exhibitions in 1857 and 1887, the latter for Queen Victoria's Silver Jubilee. The Halle Orchestra was formed to participate in the first of these celebrations. The site was purchased by White City Limited in 1907 and used as an amusement park. In the 1950s and 60s White City Stadium was used as a greyhound racing track and for stock car racing. This site is now White City Retail Park. Victorian can refer to: people from or attributes of places called Victoria (disambiguation page), including Victoria, Australia, people who lived during the British Victorian era of the 19th century, and aspects of the Victorian era, for example: Victorian architecture Victorian fashion Victorian morality Victorian literature This is a disambiguation page... The Hallé Orchestra is one of Britains longest established orchestras, and is based in Manchester. ...

The De Trafford family, who had owned much of the local land since feudal times, sold large tracts of it to the the Manchester Ship Canal Company in the 1890s and urban Old Trafford grew up around this development and the ensuing Trafford Park Industrial Estate. The canal at its Manchester end, looking towards Old Trafford. ... The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no...

Trafford Park provided work for thousands in factories such as Kellogg's, Massey Ferguson, Metropolitan-Vickers and GEC. The Ford Motor Company opened a Model-T production plant at Trafford Park in 1911. At its mid-20th century peak, Trafford Park employed 75,000 workers. From 1939-45 Manchester was responsible for producing more war goods than anywhere else in Britain and much of this work was carried out at Trafford Park. For other things with Kellogg in the name, see Kellogg (disambiguation). ... A Massey-Ferguson 135. ... Metropolitan-Vickers, or Metrovick, was a British heavy industrial firm of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse. ... The General Electric Company plc (GEC) is a British company that was renamed Marconi plc on November 30, 1999 after its defence unit Marconi Electronic Systems was divested and sold to British Aerospace. ... Ford Motor Company (also called simply Ford NYSE: F), is an American company that manufactures and sells automobiles worldwide. ... 1908 Ford Model T advertisement The Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie and the Flivver) was an automobile produced by Henry Fords Ford Motor Company from 1908 through 1928. ...

Employment was also provided on a smaller scale notably by Duerrs Jams, Vimto, Arkady Soya Mill and Oppenheimer Mosaics. Vimto is a purple soft drink in the United Kingdom. ...

During the slum-clearances of the post-war period much of the old Victorian housing stock in the area was demolished. However, after the perceived failure of the deck-access concrete crescents of Hulme, renovation was preferred to demolition by Old Trafford residents during the 1970s. For this reason there are still many Victorian terraced streets in the area.

In 1974 Stretford was subsumed into the newly formed Metropolitan Borough of Trafford. Before the administrative reforms of 1974 Stretford was a municipal borough of Lancashire. A Metropolitan Borough (or Metropolitan District) is a type of local government district in England, covering urban areas within metropolitan counties. ... A borough is a political division originally used in England. ...

By 1985 jobs at Trafford Park had nose-dived towards an all-time low of 24,500, as unemployment in the north-west soared above 30 per cent in some inner-city areas. Nearby Salford Docks, which had also been a major source of local employment, closed in 1982. As the revamped Salford Quays it has become an emblematic part of the regeneration of Manchester in general. Categories: Stub | Greater Manchester ...

For the history of the two sports stadiums see links above.

Life in Old Trafford

Today Old Trafford has approximately 13,000 residents and is multi-cultural in character. In fact, cultural diversity has been a feature of the area for over a century. Irish immigrants originally settled in the locality from the 1890s, coming to Manchester to work on the Ship Canal. Polish migrants arrived during and after the Second World War. The Afro-Caribbean community arrived and settled in the 50's and 60's. Since the 1980s Old Trafford has become home to two large South Asian communities - Gujarati Indians and Pakistani Urdu speakers - almost all being Muslim. There are three mosques in the area servicing the large Muslim community. There is also a smaller Sikh community, with its own Gurdwara. Micro-communities of Indonesian and Malaysian students also share the space. A ship canal is a canal especially constructed to carry ocean-going ships, as opposed to barges. ... Afro-Caribbean may refer to: the British Afro-Caribbean community other members of the African diaspora in or from the Carribean This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Map of South Asia South Asia is a subregion of Asia comprising the modern states of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, . It covers about 4,480,000 km², or 10 percent of the continent, and is also known as the Indian subcontinent. ... The Gujarati people, or Gujaratis, is an umbrella term used to describe traditionally Gujarati speaking peoples who can trace their ancestory to the Gujarat region in India. ... The phrase Zaban-e Urdu-e Mualla written in () is an Indo-European language of the Indo-Aryan family that developed under mainlyPersian influence in Central and South Asia during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire (1200-1800). ... A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Turkish: Müslüman, Persian and Urdu: مسلمان) is an adherent of Islam. ... A mosque is a place of worship for followers of the Islamic faith. ... A Sikh (IPA: [siːk] or [sɪk]; Punjabi: , , IPA: [sɪk. ... Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha, Southall, UK. A Gurdwara (Punjabi: , or , ), meaning the doorway to God, is the Sikh place of worship and may be referred to as a Sikh temple. ...

Old Trafford is amongst the 10% most deprived wards in England, suffering problems of unemployment, poor housing and low educational achievement. It also has levels of youth crime well above the national average.

Ayres Road and its environs are the heart of Old Trafford and a walk down this road will give visitors a real flavour of the multi-cultural nature of the neighbourhood, with its variety of Asian green grocers selling food stuffs from Europe, the Caribbean and South-East Asia; its Catholic church, St. Alphonsus, frequented by a predominantly Irish congregation, and the Chinese Health Centre on the site of the old Vimto offices. World map showing Europe Political map Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of Earth; the term continent here referring to a cultural and political distinction, rather than a physiographic one, thus leading to various perspectives about Europes precise borders. ... Central America and the Caribbean (detailed pdf map) The Caribbean (Spanish: Caribe; French: Caraïbe; Dutch: Caraïben; Portuguese: Caribe or Caraíbas) is a region of the Americas consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (most of which enclose the sea), and the surrounding coasts. ...

Schools

Primary

·Old Trafford School - Stretford Road

·St. Alphonsus R.C. Primary - Hamilton Street

·Seymour Park School - Northumberland Road

There are no secondary schools in Old Trafford

Places of Worship

Christian

·St. John the Evangelist, CofE - Ayres Road

·St. Bride’s Cof E - Blair Street

·St. Alphonsus R.C. - Powell Street

others to follow

Muslim

·Masjid-e-Hidayah – Humphrey Road

·Masjid-e-Noor – Stamford Street

·Jamae Masjid Imdadia – Blackburn Street

Sikh

Shiri Guru Gobind Singh Gurdwara Mission Centre - Upper Chorlton Road

Famous People

Famous people who were born or grew up in the area include artist L.S. Lowry, aviator John Alcock, Dodie Smith, author of 101 Dalmatians, opera singer Dame Isobel Baille, broadcaster Terry Christian and Smiths frontman Morrissey Lawrence Stephen Lowry (November 1, 1887 - February 23, 1976) was an English artist born in Rusholme, Manchester. ... There have been several well-known people named John Alcock, including: John Alcock (aviator) John Alcock (bishop) John Alcock (composer) John Alcock (producer) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Dorothy Gladys Dodie Smith (May 3, 1896 - November 24, 1990) was an English novelist and playwright. ... 101 Dalmatians is a live-action film produced by Walt Disney Pictures in 1996. ... Terry Christian (born Manchester, England, 8th May 1963) is an award-winning radio and TV presenter. ... This article is about the English rock band, for other uses of Smith or Smiths, see Smith The Smiths were a hugely influential British rock group and indie music pioneers. ... Steven Patrick Morrissey (born May 22, 1959) is a singer and songwriter from Stretford, Manchester, in Lancashire, England. ...

Links

• http://www.foot.org.uk

• http://www.stbrides.org.uk

• http://www.trafford.gov.uk

• http://ia310324.eu.archive.org/3/items/OldTraffordNewsOldTraffordNew5/OTN5.pdf (local news sheet; takes a few minutes to download)

• http://www.letsgoglobal.tv/

• http://www.masjidehidayah.com/