Market Street (7)
Going forward into Market Street this was originally part of a burying track going from Old Market Place to Bowdon Church across fields. This end of the road was called Windy Harbour, later King Street then High Street, with the far end known as The Narrows or Bowdon Lane.
The Georgian part of Market Street was the main Chester Road until the 1850s when the direct route to Old Market Place was made. The Elite Agency building was formerly Morrison’s Auction Rooms. Morrisons were established in Altrincham in 1875 as accountants and estate agents. Numbers 1 to 7 Market Street are listed. Number 3 is the original Altrincham Post Office built by Brooks about 1880. Number 5 and 7 are early 19th century. Number 5 had a croquet ground behind in 1852. Number 7 was used as the Bucklow Rural District Council Offices at the end of the 19th century and is where Hugh Wallis, the local metalworker, first set up his studio in Altrincham in 1900 (see The Downs). Keoghs, Nicholls, Linsell & Harris on the left at number 23 have expanded from solicitors originally established in 1733 as Nicholls and Worthington.
Numbers 10 to 16 and the Stamford Estates Office are listed and 6 to 10 have fragments of 16th/17th century buildings. Numbers 10 to 12 are mainly early 19th century and the long plots had workers' cottages and gardens at the rear extending over what is now the Dunham Road. Numbers 14 to 16 are early 19th century although the rainwater head has 1752 on it. Number 16 has a Blue Plaque to the artist Helen Allingham who lived here from 1849-62 and which was afterwards the Board of Health and the Overseers and Tax Offices. Helen's parents lived at number 5 opposite. The bricked-up arch just beyond was the old carriage entry to the Stamford Estate Office.