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Thanks once again to Toni Hunter for additional research on the Gytes of Byrom House.
For the last 6,000 years or so, give or take a few hundred, people in Britain have been enclosing space and buildings with walls and fences, using whatever material was locally abundant. Before that, although they might have recognised the idea of a territory, our ancestors were basically nomadic, and had no need to divide space. They lived in temporary camps and shelters before moving on to the next hunting ground – this was from about 700,000 BCE, so for most of human existence. Around 4,000 BCE people began to settle down to farm the land and domesticate animals and at the same time they built divisions – field boundaries, walls around their settlements to keep out wild animals and intruders.
For some time I have been interested in why we build walls, why we feel the need to mark out space and to keep things and people in or out. Walls send out signals – perhaps as a warning not to enter private space, or announcing that you are entering a place with a particular function. During lockdown I became interested in walls that no longer enclose anything, where the building or space they once surrounded has disappeared, walls that have lost their purpose – what I call shadow walls. I me
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Gorton has been in existence since Roman times and a settlement was noted in 13th-century records, but it is from the 16th century onwards that the populace of Gorton grew, booming in the 18th-century thanks to manufacturing and the subsequent Industrial Revolution. Many families all over the world can trace their ancestors back to Gorton, whether via railroad workers the 19th century or religious dissenters in 16th century.
Whichever era you can trace your family back to, here are some helpful resources to aid your research.
Continue reading →While we are all staying safe indoors during this Covid-19 pandemic, here is a selection of previous posts that you may find interesting or entertaining, covering the history of Gorton, from the 1780s onwards. For more posts about Gorton, use the ‘categories’ in the sidebar to navigate to an area that interests you.
Continue reading →In Britain Gorton is known very little outside of Manchester, but in the United States of America, it is a name which is much more commonplace, largely thanks to a small group of people originating from Gorton travelling the Atlantic in the early days of the thirteen colonies and establishing themselves for future generations. One of those people was Samuel Gorton, the son of Th
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