Julian Peck trained as a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with top 5 practice E C Harris & Partners in Leeds.

Via Project Management roles within both the Profession and Contracting (Taylor Woodrow/Condor PLC) he established Julian Peck Associates Limited (now trading as Julian Peck Properties Limited) in October 1985. His partners, were Jim Rowson FRICS (continues as Company Secretary) and Kevin Gaskell M. Sc. Eng, sadly departed 2010, RIP.

Initially working from Old Trafford in Manchester, new offices were taken in the Manchester City Centre in 1999. In 2002 a facility was set up at Pall Mall, London to accommodate our City dealings & Southern based transactions and clients.

Despite a permanent base in Manchester from inception, Julian Peck Properties has undertaken remits throughout the UK, from Bournemouth to Aberdeen.

 
25th Anniversary

The Wap, Dark Lane, Whittle Springs.

To celebrate our 25th anniversary in 2010, Peck Properties commissioned local bespoke construction specialist Primrose, to painstakingly restore an historic building back to its former glory.

Built as the entrance Lodge to visitors of the much celebrated alkaline and chalybeate spring in the 1840s, within the magnificent 5 acre gardens of the former Howard Arms Hotel, the property had fallen into complete dereliction before achieving planning approval to be refurbished. The hotel, erected by proprietor H. Heys Esq. in 1847, also closed in the 1980's and is now a select residential development, Heys Lodge. The spring itself was discovered in 1836 and opened to the public in 1841.

According to archivists, in Jackson's history of the Whittle Springs Brewery, "drinks of all kinds were available at the Porters Lodge for those passing by" and in the days when the canal was busy with commercial traffic serving the many nearby thriving Mills of the industrial revolution, the bargees became accustomed to buying a drink there with their boats waiting to clear in the neighbouring Jackson Locks. Hence "just wap up for a drink" was the colloquial cry and so the Porters Lodge got its nickname of the Wap, which has stuck to this day. Wap up and see it some time. We have an impressive CD of before and after photographs for anyone that's interested...

The Wap, Dark Lane, Whittle Springs