Hattersley
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 Hattersley
Hattersley shown within Greater Manchester |
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| OS grid reference | SJ982945 |
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| Metropolitan borough | Tameside |
| Metropolitan county | Greater Manchester |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | HYDE |
| Postcode district | SK14 |
| Dialling code | 0161 |
| Police | Greater Manchester |
| Fire | Greater Manchester |
| Ambulance | North West |
| EU Parliament | North West England |
| UK Parliament | Stalybridge and Hyde |
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Hattersley is an area of Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, 4 miles west of Glossop and 10 miles east of Manchester city centre at the eastern terminus of the M67. Historically part of Tintwistle Rural District in Cheshire until 1974, it is the site of an overspill estate built by Manchester City Council.[1]
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History
Construction of the estate
Between 1894 and 1936 Hattersley was a civil parish in the Tintwistle Rural District in the historical county of Cheshire. In 1936 it was annexed to the municipal borough of Hyde but remained undeveloped. In the 1960s most of the area was purchased by Manchester City Council to build a large overspill estate. Another estate was built in Gamesley. Both these estates consist primarily of council-owned houses.
Renewal and privatisation
Regeneration in Hattersley is coordinated by Hattersley Neighbourhood Partnership.
The city council transferred control of most of Hattersley's housing stock to Peak Valley Housing Association in 2006 after an attempt to transfer it to the Harvest Housing Group which collapsed when a £20 million gap in funding to refurbish the homes to new housing standards was identified. The transfer will bring a £40 million, seven-year improvement plan for existing housing tied to a £140m investment from a private developer.
Selective demolition has begun to remove some obsolete housing leaving space for redevelopment and investment in education and public services. Seven 1960s tower blocks were demolished in 2000.[2] Demolition of 1960s low-rise houses on the estate took place in 2007 and 2008.[3]
In 2008 the Tameside Advertiser reported that leader of Tameside Council, Roy Oldham, claimed that a Tesco supermarket would be built on part of a site earmarked for a new district centre, causing concern to residents.[4]
Crime
Moors murderers Myra Hindley and her grandmother (the actual tenant) were rehoused in Hattersley in 1964 and lived at 16 Wardle Brook Avenue. Ian Brady spent much of his time at the house with Hindley and together they carried out the killings of ten-year-old Lesley-Ann Downey and seventeen-year-old Edward Evans, at the property. The body of Lesley-Ann Downey was buried on nearby Saddleworth Moor the day after her murder on Boxing Day 1964, but the body of Edward Evans was found at the house in October 1965 before the couple could dispose of it. In October 1987, Manchester City Council demolished the house as they could not find tenants willing to live there.[5]
According to football hooligan Colin Blaney in his book The Undesirables, Hattersley was also home to members of a network of football hooligans known as the Wide Awake Firm who travelled the world, stealing jewellery and committing other acquisitive forms of crime.[6] A member of the Hattersley contingent of this group was recently interviewed for Vice magazine and stated that they specialized in a form of crime called 'twining' that involved performing confidence tricks on shop keepers to con them out of their money. They travelled as far afield as Thailand and Australia committing this trick.[7]
Convicted murderer and drug dealer Dale Cregan, who shot two police officers, resided in Hattersley.[citation needed]
Culture and community
Hattersley as a large overspill estate had four main shopping areas and five pubs, as well as another four pubs adjoining the main estate. The main shopping area was The Precinct, and contained around twenty shops. Notable shops included a post office, Wilds butchers, a large Co-op, the chippy, a sewing shop, a charity store, Battersby chemists, a launderette, a large supermarket called Hugh Fayes, a hardware shop, a bookmakers, Lowes paper shop, a clothes shop run by Asian brothers, a Greggs bakery, and a double unit which sold new and second-hand electronics. Attached to this precinct were a community centre, a large library and a large pub called the Four in Hand.
Hattersley has a monthly community newspaper, the Hattersley & Mottram Community News, produced by local people. It is home to No 468 (Hyde and Hatterley) Squadron Air Cadets.[8]
Notable people
- Ricky Hatton, the former two-weight world champion boxer, is Hattersley's most notable resident.
- Lisa Huo, brought up in Hattersley, was a contestant on Big Brother 7.
- Shayne Ward, from Hattersley, was on The X Factor.
References
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