I've recently started working at a place in Trafford park, specifically 'the village'   I know trafford park was originally a country estate, the house turned into a hotel for businessmen to stay in while surveying the park with a view to moving there.   The land is essentially an island with the ship canal on one side, a 'normal' canal on the other and businesses tended to set up along either of those.   The village was obviously built as terrace or back-to-backs for the workers for th