Albert Place (3)
Going up between the Old Market Tavern and the Orange Tree, this curved road may pre-date the medieval town and represent where an older Saxon village existed. Behind the Old Market Tavern was was the stable yard of the hotel, later Arnold’s Yard, now town houses.
Jacobite troops stayed in the area in 1745 on their way to Derby following the recruitment of 200-300 troops in Manchester. 500 of the 6,000 troops were acting as a decoy as though making for Wales. The Jacobites arrived in Altrincham in snow on Sunday 1st December having had to rebuild bridges the previous day which had been demolished at Barton, Stretford, Cheadle and Stockport by the pro-Hanoverian Liverpool Regiment. Horses were stolen in Sale and farmers in the Altrincham area hid their animals in woods and barred doors and windows while the troops were passing through.
Some troops probably stayed in the old wooden buildings in Arnold’s Yard, certainly at the Red Lion Inn in Old Market Place, in George Street and at Thorley Moor Farm, now St. John’s Church off Ashley Road. One local was standing at the top of Victoria Street off Old Market Place and was informed by a Highlander that 'he must give up his brogues'. They then passed through Hale on the way south via Macclesfield to join the rest of the troops. The innkeeper of the Bleeding Wolf in Hale is said to have slain a straggler at Thorley Moor Farm with his own sword and a farmer at Ringway shot another.
The 1810 St. George’s Jubilee School stood on the left side of the entrance to Arnold’s Yard until 1859.