Hi Steven,
I think you mean the part of Heywood St just north of Brideoak St. I do recall the 1930s semis. They were built on both sides of the road, on what had been allotments to the west side, and a field on the east. I don't remember those garages at all. I also had a look at my 1931 map of Cheetham and the Northern Hospital does not appear at the top of Heywood Street. It must be just off the map, further south down Cheetham Hill Rd, as it was built in 1856 and still operating in 1931.
I remember the Huxley Ave houses as somewhat better than you recall them. We lived at the extreme end of the last terrace and the houses got bigger as you neared our end. This was mainly because the building line was out of true. My Dad once tried to wallpaper our lounge with squared paper and, as he turned a corner, the lines veered up towards the ceiling. He scratched his head for a bit and then realised the room angles were not square but acute. We had 3 bedrooms, the master bedroom rant he full width of the house and had two windows, a bay and a small leaded casement, overlooking the mature trees and grounds of the convent; a tiled upstairs bathroom as well as an outside loo (our rabbit lived in there!); a front parlour with bay window with stained glass panes (tulip design) and an art nouveau cast iron fireplace (more tulips); a walk-through dining room with large window and similar fireplace; a kitchen with fitted cupboards and big black cooking range and then the lean to scullery for washing. We had a sizeable L shaped back yard which was big enough for my Dad to park his Austin A30 in (once he'd added garage gates to the wall which opened out onto the end alley). We also had tiny front gardens and a sturdy wooden capped top fence between us and next door, which sloped down from the top of 3 large steps to the front gate, so I could slide down it.
They were certainly better quality than the Cheetham Hill Rd Houses, which is why they are still standing today while then rest were demolished, I suppose. We had plaster corbels in the hall way, but no gargoyles etc. The style was definitely turn of the century. Perhaps the terraces at the Cheetham Hill end were of a lesser standard tho? I never went in one. I id once visit some folks down in Larch St and these were awful houses. They were Georgian and had smelly dank cellars and ropey Georgian sash windows. Next to our house in Huxley, across the alley, at the Heywood St end, was a small factory which, everyone said, manufactured shrouds! They had a boiler house at the back and a croft (on Kelvin Grove). The place had a glass roof and it got so hot in there in summer that they had to leave all the doors open. Kids would peer in, in hopes of seeing a shroud with a body in it, but no luck, only hundreds of yards of coarse white cloth running around steel rollers.
There were some old lock up garages on Heywood Street but half way down, going south on that block between Kelvin Grove and Wordsworth Ave (they're shown as stables on my map!) and that's where we had our first (and only, to my recollection) car wash. I remember the day (1960s) they took away the lovely old 1930s hand operated elegant petrol pumps and installed short squat electric ones. Watching the automated car wash was all a bit of a five minute wonder for us kids, then we'd head home for Saturday tea (it was always cottage pie on a Saturday at our house) and watch 'Dr Who & the Daleks' on our black & white set.