Send flowers to Old Trafford, Manchester

Flower Delivery to Old Trafford by Clare Florist

Old Trafford can be found in the Stretford area of Greater Manchester and it is found around 2 miles from the city centre. It is fair to say that most people who know the name around the world think of sporting venues that share the name as opposed to the part of Manchester itself.

This is because Old Trafford is the name of the home stadium of Manchester United Football Club and it is the cricket ground where Lancashire County Cricket Club plays their games. Both of these grounds can be found at opposite ends of Warwick Road, although parts of the road have been renamed in honour of some of the most illustrious sporting heroes who are adored in this part of the world. There is also a Metro stop which adjoins the sporting grounds and the city centre.

The association with sport can be explained by the fact that in the 1800s, this was a part of Manchester that was considered to have clean and unpolluted air, unlike so many other parts of the city. This was capitalised on in the 1820s when this part of the city was selected by John Dalton, a local scientist, to play host to a Royal Horticultural and Botanical Gardens. This kick-started the association with recreation and this part of Manchester, which blossomed into an area where sport was accepted and could thrive.

There are around 13,000 residents in Old Trafford in the current era, a sum that is dwarfed by the regular home attendances for Manchester United. There is a wide spread range of ethnicities in Old Trafford, which helps to create a cosmopolitan and varied vibe in the local area. While the Old Trafford is considered to be an area of poverty in Manchester, there has been considerable work carried out to provide hope and forward development planning to the local area.