Regent Road (10)
The upper part of Regent Road was originally called Garden Walk or locally The Patch. Some of the large houses on its left were used to accommodate American officers during the war.
The lower part of Regent Road was known as Chapel Walk after the Wesleyan Chapel originally on the corner of Chapel Street. Meetings of local Roman Catholics originally started in George Street and then two cottages at 71/73 New Street on the left were bought and a small Gothic building erected in 1858 (now demolished). The present number 77 is in the 1918 directory as a Roman Catholic Club.
New Street, Chapel Street, Albert Street and Waterloo Place off The Downs were first developed from the 1820s on farm land belonging to Alcock’s Farm. This was not part of Lord Stamford’s estate and houses were not to his standards and in many cases ended up in multiple occupation. Until about 1850 there were a number of handloom weavers in New Street, Albert Street and Chapel Street (and Victoria Street). At that time there was little clean water, no proper sanitation and there were many middens around the houses.
The buildings at the bottom right of New Street were built in the 1840s and have graduated slates on their roofs. There were seven dwellings described as 'cellars' here in the 1920s. All Saints Church on the right, now offices, is six-sided and contained pews, a lectern and candlesticks from the workshop of Robert Thompson of Kilburn, Yorkshire with his mouse trademark.
There is a memorial on the side of The Grapes pub to the 161 men from 70 houses in Chapel Street who volunteered in the 1914-18 War (a national record). 29 of them lost their lives and the British Legion has documented the life of each person with photographs. See Carl's Cam, photos, memorials, WW2, Altrincham (Chapel Street) for full details.