Walley Range
Walley Range shown within Greater Manchester
OS grid reference	SJ831948
Metropolitan borough	City of Manchester
Metropolitan county	Greater Manchester
Region	North West
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	MANCHESTER
Dialling code	0161
Police	Greater Manchester
Fire	Greater Manchester
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	Manchester Gorton
European Parliament	North West England
List of places: UK • England • Greater Manchester

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Whalley Range is a locality within the City of Manchester, in North West England. It lies about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south-southwest of Manchester city centre. This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ... North West England is one of the nine regions of England. ... City of Manchester. ...

House prices have increased in recent years with the extensive redevelopment. As with nearby Chorlton, parts of it have become gentrified since the 1990s. Whalley Range is also a multi cultural part of the city, with non-white Britons making up the slight majority of the population. Chorlton-cum-Hardy or Chorlton is a suburb of Manchester. ... This once impoverished part of Jersey Citys historic downtown is quickly becoming gentrified. ...

History

Whalley Range was one of Manchester's first suburbs, built by Manchester banker and businessman Samuel Brooks as "a desirable estate for gentlemen and their families".^[1] Samuel Brooks (1792–1864) was born at Great Harwood, near Whalley in Lancashire, England, the second son of William Brooks. ...

Brooks bought 63 acres (25 ha) of land, then called Jackson's Moss, drained it, and built villas for wealthy businessmen such as himself. He was born near Whalley, Lancashire, after which he named his own home Whalley House, which may be the origin of the area's name. A toll gate guarded this exclusive area and this place is still called Brooks Bar.^[2] Whalley is a large village in the Ribble Valley on the banks of the River Calder in Lancashire. ... Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ...

Geography and administration

Political divisions

The area is represented on Manchester City Council by Faraz Bhatti, John Grant and Mary Watson.

Education

William Hulme's Grammar School was established as an independent school in 1887, and became a direct grant school in 1976. In 2007, the school rejoined the state education sector, scrapping its annual tuition fees and selective admissions test in exchange for funding as an academy. The school's specialist subject is languages, and it will continue to select 10% of its pupils on the basis of their aptitude for modern languages. William Hulmes Grammar School is City Academy mixed school (as of September 2007) in Whalley Range, Manchester, England. ... Mossbourne Community Academy, the controversial successor to Hackney Downs School. ...

Whalley Range 11-18 High School and Business and Enterprise College is a large non-denominational secondary school for girls. The large majority of students are from minority ethnic backgrounds, mostly of Pakistani origin. Almost all of the students in the sixth form are from minority ethnic backgrounds. The number of students whose first language is other than English is much higher than the national average, with the three most common languages spoken by students being Urdu, Somali and Arabic. The school has specialist status as a business and enterprise college, and from September 2007 it will also be a designated sports college. The school was assessed as "good" in its March 2007 Ofsted report.^[3] Estelle Morris, now Baroness Morris of Yardley, one time Secretary of State for Education and Skills and Minister for the Arts, is a notable alumnus.^[4] Ofsted logo The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial government department, established in 1993 under the Education (Schools) Act 1992. ... Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley, PC (born 1952) is an English Labour politician and member of the House of Lords. ... The Secretary of State for Education and Skills is the chief minister of the Department for Education and Skills in the United Kingdom government. ... In the United Kingdom government, the Minister for the Arts is a ministerial post, usually at junior or Minister of State level. ... “Old girl” redirects here. ...

Further information: List of schools in Manchester

The following is a partial list of currently operating schools in the North West region of England. ...

Musical associations

The area has a number of musical associations. It was immortalised by Morrissey in the 1984 song by The Smiths, Miserable Lie, which featured the lines:
"What do we get for our trouble and pain? / Just a rented room in Whalley Range". For other uses, see Morrissey (disambiguation). ... The Smiths were an English rock band active from 1982 to 1987. ...

Morrissey briefly lived in Whalley Range with his friend the photographer and Ludus singer Linder Sterling, in a house shared with other musicians.

James formed in 1981, in Whalley Range

Former Stone Roses drummer Alan "Reni" Wren lives on Grosvenor Road, in Whalley Range. The classic line-up at the time of Spike Island The Stone Roses were one of the most influential bands to come out of Britain during the late 1980s and early 90s. ...

Mark Collins, guitarist of The Charlatans grew up in Whalley Range, though he today lives in Chorlton. The Charlatans could refer to two bands The Charlatans, a United States band The Charlatans, a British band, sometimes known in the US as Charlatans UK This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Nico, singer with the Velvet Underground, also lived in Whalley Range in the 1980s. The Velvet Underground and Nico (from left to right: John Cale, Nico, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker) The Velvet Underground (Affectionately known as The Velvets, or V.U. for short) was an American rock and roll band of the late 1960s. ...

An earlier musical association is that Jimi Hendrix stayed in a house on the corner of Wellington Road during his final UK tour. Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitar virtuoso, singer and songwriter. ...

The mother of Irish rock star Phil Lynott, front man of Thin Lizzy, ran the now demolished, Clifton Grange Hotel, on Upper Chorlton Road. The hotel was used extensively by touring rock bands during the 1960s and 1970s. George Best also frequented the hotel. Lynott spent part of his youth living with his mother at the hotel and went to the nearby Princess Road Junior School. He immortalised the hotel on the eponymous track from Thin Lizzy's debut album. Philip Parris Lynott (August 20, 1949–January 4, 1986) was an Irish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter, who first came to prominence as a member of Thin Lizzy. ... Thin Lizzy are a hard rock band who formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1969. ... George Best (22 May 1946 – 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish football player best known for his years with Manchester United. ... The A5103 is a major road in England, it runs from Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre to junction 3 of the M56 motorway and is one of Manchesters principal radial routes. ...

Whalley Range became the city's main red light district during the 1960s but now the area is beginning to lose this negative label since extensive gentrification has taken place.

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