22 ECCLES, BARTON, HOPE, MONTON, • [SLATER'S

• Schools• cemetery at Newlands has three mortuary chapell', and was St. Mary's National (mixed & infants), Albert st. built in opened in I 879 : the whole covers a space of 40 acres, and is 1866, for 720 children & enlarged in 1897, for x,ooo tastefully laid ont. The union workhouse will hold about 400 children; average attendance, 509; W. Mason, master; inmates (for particulars of union see ). Barton Miss Margaret Ann Seckerson, infants' mistress is on the late , now the Ship Canal, St. Andrew's Church (mixed), Harwn st. for Boo children; and also on the famou<~ Bridgewat.er Canal, one of the average attendance, 488 ; George Fanthorpe, master; earliest undertakings of James Hrindley, the celebrated en­ Miss M. Lomax, infants' mistress; average, I 50 gineer, which is here carried over the St. Mary's Catholic (boys, girls & infai).ts), Oxford st. built by an aqueduct, constructed as a caisson trough, moving on in I865 & enlarged in I887, for soo children; average at­ rollers, the span on each side being go feet ; full le~h 235 tendance, 402 ; J ames Doyle, master : Miss Margaret feet, width I8 feet, depth 6 feet and the weight when swing­ Byrnl', girls' mistress ; Franciscan Sisters, in charge of ing, I,4oo tons. The high road is carried over the Ship infants Canal by a swing brid~e. Here also is the first of the series Congregational (mixed), Clarendon road, built in I863 & of locks and sluices on the Ship Canal, 6oa feet long by 56 enlarged in I873, for 500 children; average attendance, feet wide, and 350 feet by 45 feet, the 4 sluices being each 30 320; W. H. Hughes, master feet wide, with a. descending level of 15 feet ; there are also Congregational (infants), Wellington road, for I50; average barge lifts and coal tips, so that the transfer of traffic can attendance, So; Miss Mary A. Price, mistress be easily and rapidly effected. Trafford Hall, the seat of the family of de Trafford since the Norman Conquest, and Congregational Sunday School, enlarged in 1873 1 for 6oo children one of the most ancient families of , stands in a park of I,I83 acres; in I896 the property was sold, Newspapers. and is now used as a golf club and hotel. Harton Old Hall, Eccles Advertiser & District Recorder, 88 Church st­ formerly the residence of the Barton, Booth and Leigh Thomas Ball, proprietor; published Friday families, is now a farmstead. The soil is clayey and sandy; Eccles & Patricroft Journal, 72 Church st-Tillotson & Son the subsoil is rock. The chief crops are wheat and oats. Limited, proprietors ; published Friday The old acreage of the township was Io,62I ; area of the

new township of Barton Moss is I 14o7 acres ; rateable value Railway Station, John Stafford, station master £8,939· The population of the old township of Ba.I"".On·on­

Irwell in I88I was 25,991 1 and in 1891, 35,8571 and in 19011 Trams. 401 168. EccLES (viti Chapel street & Oldfield road) :-From Black­ Parish Cle1·k-Benjamm Wright. friars Bridge 5.30 a. m. then every 10 minutes to n.3o PosT & M. 0. 0. & S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, 70 p.m. ; Sundays 9 a.m. & every 15 minutes to r.45 p.m., Barton road.-Mrs. Eliza Ann Cordwell, postmistress. then every ro minutes to IO.JO p. m. From Victoria Letters through Patricroft arrive at 7 a. m. & 12.30 & 4.30 Bridge (viti Cross lane): 7·35 a. m. then every 10 minutes p.m. ; dispatched at 9·35 a. m., 12. IS, 4 & 7·I5 p.m. ; Sun­ to I0.55 p.m. ; Sundays 1.50 pm. and every IO minutes days, 6. IS p.m. The nearest telegraph office is at PatricrCift to 10.55 p.m. Return to Blackfriars Bridge & Victoria SCHOOLS:- Bridge alternately, 5.30 a. m. and every 10 minutes to 7 National (mixed & infants), erected in 1846, for 271 a. m. then every 5 minutes to 11 p.m.1 then every Io children; a\Terage attendance, 251; William Guest minutes to 11.30 p.m.; Sundays 8.30 a.m. and every 15 Phillips, master; Miss Maggie Davidson, infants' mistress minutes to 1.30 p.m., then every 5 minutes to 10.30p.m De Trafford (All Saints) Catholic (mixed), Trafford road, EccLES (via Pendleton & Eccles Old rd.) :-From Hlackfriars built in t8go, in place of the former school, built in st. every half hour from 9 a. m. to 9 p.m. ; return every I856, & removed on account of the site being required 30 minutes from 9 a. m. to 10 p.m.; Sundays from 2 to for the Manchester Ship Canal ; it will hold 550 children ; 9.30 p.m. every half hour, winter months; summer average attendance, mixed Igo, infants II4; Thomas months, 2 to 9 p.m. every half hour Driscoll, master ; Miss Georgina Broe, infants' mistress Wesleyan, Barton road (mixed), for I8o children; average JJARTON-UPON-IRWELL,originally a township, 7 attendance, ISO ; Joseph Needham, master miles in length by 5 wide: it forms part of the civil parish LosTOCK is a hamlet in Barton-upon-Irwell; population of Eccles and is the head I:Jf a nnion, 5 miles west from in I89I1 155; I90I 1 I59 Manchester, 8 south from Bolton, 12 east-by-north from and 193 from London, in the Eccles division ' is a small place in Barton-upon-Irwell. of the county, petty sessional division of Manchester, PosT & M. 0. & S. B. Office, 5I3 Liverpool rd. Peel Green.­ Salford division of , Salford county court Mrs. Susannah Da.rbyshire, sub-postmistress. Letters district, rural deanery of Eccl~ archdeacnnry and diocese through Patricroft. Box cleared at 8 & g. 5o a. m. & 1.151 of Manchester. This large township has, under the" Local 4.0 & 7.30 p.m. Patricroft is the nearest tele2'raph office Government Act, I894 " been divided intn the townships 1 CROF'l' IS 11. hamlet of Barton-upon-frwell; population in of Barton Moss, , Eccles and Irlam. The urban 1891, 167, and in rgai, I 1 2":JI. It is now taken with Davy­ portion of the township is governed by the council of the hulme and has a Rural District Council, with offices at borough of Eccles. Part of the township was formed int~ Croft's Bank. an ecclesiastical parish March 1st, 18671 from the civil parish of Eccles. The church of St. Catherine, erected Monton, formerly a hamlet of Barton-upon-Irwell, but in I843, is a building of stone in a debased style of Gothic, now included within the municipal borough of EccJoes, ia consisting of chancel, nave, western porch, transepts and an I mile north-east from Barton church and I north-was' embattled western tower, with pinnacles and spire, contain­ from Eccles eh urch, with a station on the Eccles and Wigan ing one bell: the chancel was added in 1893 at a cost of branch of the London and :North Western railway. Monton £1,670: there are memorial windows to the late Henry church, on Monton green, replacing the old Monton chapel Boddington and others: there are 6oo sittings, of which half which dated from 16<}7·8, was opened in I875, and will sea' are free. The register dates from the year I843· T\te over 500 persons. The congregation is connected with the living is a perpetual curacy, net yearly value [395, "Provincial Assembly of Presbyterian and Unitarian with re~idence, in the gift of five trustees, including Ministers and Congregations of Lancashire and ." the Bishop of Manchester and the vicar of Eccles, and The Monton Memorial schools, adjoining, replace older held since 1898 by the Rev. Thomas Henry Davies, of school buildings and were opened in 1889; there is a Mis­ St. Aidan's. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Metho­ sion room here in connection with St. Andrew's church, dist chapels. The Catholic church, in Redclyffe road, is Eccles, in which services are held on Sunday evening at, 6.JO the successor of the old chapel first e.<~tahlished at Trafford p.m. and on Thursday evening at 7.30 p.m. The population Hall and also of a later building erected in in in 189I was 2,992 and in rgoi was 5o440. 1798. The present building was erected in I868, at the sole expense of Sir Humphrey de Trafford Bart. and dedi­ PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, cated to All Saints, and is a noble edifice of stone in the I99 Monton rd. - M. Darbyshire, postmaster. Letters Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles a.nd a through Eccles. Box cleared on week days 8. ro & 9.25 tower with spire containing one bell: an attached chantry a. m. & I2.3o, 4· Io, 7 & 8.40 p.m. ; Sundays, 6.15 p.m. contains the family vault of the De Tmfford family, in WALL LETTER Box, M on ton green, is cleared on week days which Sir Humphrey de Trafford Hart. the founder, d. 4th at 7.50 & 9.40 a. m. & 12.30, 4.2s, 7 & 8.45 p.m. ; Sun­ May, I 8 86 ; his brother' Charles Cecil de 'I rafford, d. X sth days at 6.15 p.m. Dec. 1878, and his son, Gilbert Joseph, d. I8go, are WALL LETTER Hox, Parrin lane, is cleared on week days a\ interred: here also is buried Canon Ker,ohaw, Ist rector of 8 & 9.30 a..m. 12 noon, 4.2o, 6.30 & 8.~5 p.m. the church, d. x8go: on the south side of the chancel is a ScHOOLS:- beautiful lady chapel, erected by the Right Rev. Mgr. Gadd Monton Day (mixed), built in I888, for 425 chil~i v.G. from designs of Mr. Pugin, of London: there a.re seven average attendance, 404; Harry Tyson, master i Mull stained "Windows in the church, chiefly memorials. The Mary Burgess, infants' mistress