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HISTORY
Victoria Villas, located at the southern end of Humphrey Lane, were built in 1897, the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The name and date is indicated on the front of the building. There was a large garden, coach house and stables to the rear.
Victoria Villas
In the early 1900s, one of the tennants of Victoria Villas was John Tiller - who founded The Tiller Girls dance troup in 1889.
In 1990, another house was built alongside Victoria Villas to the right.
Victoria Cottage
As transport conditions improved, use of the coach house likely declined, and this was converted into a dwelling house called Victoria Cottage. Initially let to tennants, it became the smallest house this side of Urmston. Extensions were added when it was sold in 1958.
Victoria Cottage, from the Urmston Hotel car park, 2025.
Urmston Hotel
Around 1939, part of the Victoria Villas land was sold to Walker and Homfrays Ltd who built the Urmston Hotel. This advertisement appeared in the Manchester Evening News on 10 March that year.
Manchester Evening News, 10 March 1939.
The hotel was extended in the 1960s, In later years, the car park was extended, taking up part of a garden.
The Urmston Hotel, Victoria Villas and Humphrey Lane 1960s, taken from Stretford Road.
Urmston Hotel & Victoria Villas, 2008.
Urmston Hotel & Victoria Villas, 2023.
1910 & 2025.
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