Posted June 17th, 2008 by levadmin
Original post by: Nick Leeson
Levenshulme was once a rural community
Records show it dating back to the 13th Century,
and indeed by the 16th Century there were only 25 people paying rates!
By the 1850s though things were beginning to change with the onslaught of the industrial revolution, the population of Levenshulme exploded.
The building of the railways, mills and factories was the beginning of the end for Levenshulme as a farming community.
Houses were beginning to appear ,and because these were being built at the later part of the 19th Century, Manchester as a whole had learnt its lesson from earlier housing stock,which were built to a very poor standard,and were literally built back to back.
