Two storey Victorian terraces line an independent high street at Wilbraham Road and Barlow Moor Road, and South Drive in the Arts and Crafts estate of Chorltonville played Fitz's family home in Cracker.
What Chorlton looks like
meet on a corner lined with independent shopfronts, under two storey red brick terraces with gabled dormers over some of the upper floors. Newer shopfronts painted in flat colour sit beside older ones with hand lettered signs, cafes and a newsagent among them. Cars line the kerbs on the approach to the junction.
, a former Temperance Billiard Hall on Manchester Road, keeps a green and cream domed corner turret with arched windows and terracotta trim. stands close by in Portland stone, a shallow domed rotunda with paired Ionic columns over the entrance and PUBLIC LIBRARY cut into the frieze, built in 1914.
The side streets running off the high street are tree lined and mostly residential. Bay windowed Victorian terraces stand alongside red brick semis with hipped roofs and hedged front gardens, cars parked nose to tail along both kerbs.
South of the centre, the Chorltonville estate is laid out on twelve roads around a green called the Meade, its houses dating from 1910 to 1911. Ginnels connect some of the roads to the streets beyond, narrow paved lanes between hedges and garden fences.
Shot in Chorlton
The BBC drama Survivors used the Chorltonville estate as the home of Abby and David Grant in 2008. The ITV series Cracker used , one of the estate's own roads, as Fitz's family home.
Cracker
South Drive
Played Fitz's family home
South Drive, one of Chorltonville's twelve roads, was the location of Fitz's family home in the ITV crime drama Cracker. The street keeps the estate's curving layout and grass verges, with gardens set back behind a mix of hedges, low walls and fences rather than built up to the pavement.
What Chorlton can double for
Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire
Chorltonville was built in 1910 and 1911, within a few years of Letchworth Garden City's own earliest cottages. Both estates centre on a green with houses set back behind planted verges. Letchworth's plots run wider and its greens more open, so keeping the frame inside one road rather than showing the green avoids the difference in scale. Letchworth's houses carry a roughcast render Chorltonville's plain brick fronts do not, so a frame that stays close on brick holds the match better than one that takes in a rendered facade. Try searching houses set back behind verges now.
Hampstead Garden Suburb in London, England
Chorltonville's redbrick houses sit on curving roads with grass verges, the same Arts and Crafts layout Hampstead Garden Suburb used from the same decade. Both keep the roofline broken up by trees rather than by taller buildings. Hampstead Garden Suburb's houses run larger and more varied in style, so a tight frame along one curving road holds the match better than a wide establishing shot. Try searching curving roads and grass verges now.
Crouch End in London, England
The independent shopfronts under bay windowed Victorian terraces along Wilbraham Road read close to Crouch End's own high street, both built up in the 1880s and 1890s. Painted signs and awnings sit under the same repeated brick gables in both places. Crouch End's buildings run taller in places and its streets carry more traffic, so a tighter shot on one shopfront run holds the match better than a wide street view. Try searching independent shopfronts under Victorian terraces now.
