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Old Trafford is an area of Stretford in Greater Manchester, England. It is situated directly south-west of Manchester city centre. The crossroads sites of two old toll gates roughly delineate the borders of the area: Brooks Bar to the north and Trafford Bar to the south.
Old Trafford is the site of two major sporting venues; Old Trafford Football Stadium and Old Trafford Cricket Ground (home of Manchester United F.C. and Lancashire County Cricket Club respectively).
The stadiums are at either end of Warwick Road, two parts of which have been renamed Brian Statham Way (formerly Warwick Road) and Sir Matt Busby Way (formerly Warwick Road North). The interconnecting strip of road between the stadiums now retains the name Warwick Road and the southern section on the other side of the Metrolink line is called Warwick Road South.
Old Trafford was a crossing point over the River Irwell in ancient times. The name Old Trafford possibly derives from the time when there were two Trafford Halls, Old Trafford Hall and New Trafford Hall. The old hall was situated close to what is now the White City Retail Park, and was said to have been the home of the de Trafford family since 1017, until the family moved to the new hall in what is now Trafford Park, sometime between 1672 and 1720. The name of the area around Old Trafford Hall may subsequently have become shortened to Old Trafford. The old hall was demolished in 1939.
In the 1820s, Manchester scientist John Dalton chose Old Trafford as the site for a Royal Horticultural and Botanical Gardens because of its clean, unpolluted air, and so began the area's association with sports and recreation. The popularity of the botanical gardens – which was a kind of northern Crystal Palace – led wealthy people to build large houses in the area. In 1857, and again in 1887, the gardens staged exhibitions of art treasures, the latter of which was in celebration of Queen Victoria's silver jubilee. The Hallé Orchestra was formed to participate in the first of these exhibitions. The site of the botanical gardens was purchased by White City Limited in 1907, and it subsequently became an amusement park. From the 1950s to the 1970s, White City Stadium was used as a greyhound racing track and for stock car racing. This site is now White City Retail Park. The front entrance is all that has been preserved of the old botanical gardens. Nearby, on the site of what is now the Greater Manchester Police Headquarters, was Henshaw's Institute for the Blind, which originally opened as Henshaw's Blind Asylum in 1837. Next door on the same site was the Royal Institute for the Deaf, where the film Mandy was made.
Old Trafford expanded and became an urban area after the building of the Manchester Ship Canal in the 1890s, and the subsequent development of nearby Trafford Park Industrial Estate, in the early 20th century. Trafford Park provided employment for thousands of local residents. Employment was also provided on a smaller scale, notably by Duerrs Jams, Vimto, Arkady Soya Mill and Ludwig Oppenheimer Mosaics.
Old Trafford has been the site of Manchester United Football Club's Old Trafford stadium since 1910, apart from an enforced eight year gap from 1941 to 1949, caused by bombing damage during World War II. Lancashire County Cricket Club's ground, which is also known simply as Old Trafford, is close by. Before the club's formation, in 1864, it had been the home of Manchester Cricket Club, who had moved here in 1856.
Old Trafford makes up the northern tip of Trafford and adjoins St. Georges, Hulme, Whalley Range and Moss Side – all of which are within the boundaries of the City of Manchester – and Ordsall to the northeast, which is within the boundaries of the City of Salford. The crossroad of Brooks Bar divides Old Trafford, Moss Side, Hulme and Whalley Range.
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