Manchester's tiniest village once attracted busloads of tourists before being abandoned and lost forever
A delightfully detailed miniature village built in the front garden of Manchester family home has sadly now disappeared forever.
Both Alan, a foreman gardener with Manchester corporation at Wythenshawe Park, and Nigel, the curator at the Fletcher Moss Botanical Gardens in Didsbury, spent years making their little empire look realistic. The project was finally completed in 1988 and came with intricate details like tiny glass windows and real electric lights.
The M.E.N. caught up again with Alan and Nigel again in 1992, a year before Alan took retirement and sold the house. By this time, word of the tiny village had spread and become something of a tourist attraction.Busloads of visitors would stop to see the miniature slice of old England in the unlikely setting of a Manchester suburb. Alan said: "People come in and many knock on the door saying how lovely it is.
Sadly, following Alan and his family moving down south in the early 1990s, things didn't fare well for his labour of love. The buildings were not maintained and began to decay.
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