4· , , (SLATER'S • All Saints', Regent road (in connection with St. Margaret's, St. Margaret's, Albel't street (infants), for xBo children; Dnnham); 10.30 a.. m. & 6.30 p.m. sun.; thurs. 8 p.m average attendance, 140 ; Miss Annie Percival, mistress St. Alban's )Ii!$sion Church, Sinderland lane, Broadheath (in The British School occupies large premises in Oxford road, conne<:tion with St. George's) ; 10.45 a.. m. & 6.30 p.m the property of a. body of trustees. The main building St. Elizabeth's Mission Church, Pownall street (St. John's), was erected in I 86o at a cost of near £2,500, but has had Rev. Arthur O'Brien Newenham M.A. curate in charge; various additions in later years & now contains more 10.30 a. m. & 6.30 p.m.; thurs. 7.30 p.m than 20 rooms. The school is open for 5 days in each St. Peter's, Ashley road (chapel of ease to Bowdon Parish week ; average attendance, 524 ; head master, John church), Rev. John Ritson Brunskill M.A. curate in Ferguson ; infants' mistress, Mrs. Annie Winstanley charge; 1p.3o a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7.30 p.m Catholic, Hamon road (mixed), erected in 1875 & en­ Catholic, New street, Rev. William Stanley & Rev. Edward larged in 1884, for 270 children ; average attendance, D Kirby, priests; 8.3o, xo & n a. m. & 6.30 p.m. ; • seniors, 129 ; Miss Mary Quill, mistress; Miss Anni.e daily, 8 & 8.30 a. m. ; thurs. 7.30 p.m Murphy, infants' mistress ; average attendance, 75 Baptist, road, Rev. Frederick Cowell Lloyd; 10.45 a. m. Wesleyan, New street, enlarged in 1896, for 300 children; & 6.30 p.m.; thnrs. 7.15 p.m average attendance, 220; Charles Basil Winn, master; ~ongregl\tional, Navigation road, Broadheath, Rev. Will D. Miss Miriam Parry, mistress Thomas, pastor; 10.45 a.. m. & 6.30 p.m.; tues. 7·45 p.m Rigby Memorial (mixed), Navigation road, Broadheatb, Congregational, Ashley road, Rev. A. T. S. James B.A.,B.sc.; erected in 1885, for 320 children; average attendance, 10.30 a. m. & 6.30 p.m.; wed. 8 p.m 290; Joseph Child, master Methodist New Connexion, George street, Rev. James Mitchell; 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; tues. 7·45 p.m Newspapers. Primitive Methodist, Oxford road, Rev. George Mitchell; Altrincham & Bowdon Guardian; office, 71 George street; 10.45 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; alternate thurs. 7.30 p.m pub. tues. & fri. ; Mackie & Co. Lim. proprietors ; head Unitarian, Dunham road, Rev. Dendy Agate B.A. ; n a.m. office, W arrington & 6.30 p.m Wesleyan Methodist, Woodlands road, Rev. T. Hardwick Altrincham Division .ddvertiser; branch office, 84 George Mawson, minister ; 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; wed, 7 p.m street; fri Wesleyan Methodist, road, Broadhea th ; 10. 30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; mon. 8 p.m Railway Stations. Wesleyan, Borough road; II a.m. & 6.30 p.m Manchester, South Junction & Altrincham (for passengers Salvation Army, George street ; 11 a.m. & 3 & 7 p.m & parcels) (Aitrincbam & Bowdon), Stamford road, Owen Trinity Mission Hall, Police street; 7 p.m Thomas, station master ; Charles Taylor, passenger & Central Gospel Hall, Moss lane ; 7 p. m parcels agent Manchester, South Junction & Altrincham, Samuel Schools Mitchell, goods agent, road .Jubilee, St. George's National, Church street, erected in London & North Western, Broadheath, Thomas Wm.Taylor, 1787; enlarged in x86o & again in 1900, for 530 children ; station master average attendance, soo ; John Goodall, master (seniors) ; Cheshire Lines, Hale, David Ernest Hewes, station master; Miss Maud Broadbent, mistress Uuniors) ; Miss Alice West , E. Dawson, station master Brandwood, infants' mistress St. Alban's National (mixed), Sinderland road, Broadheath; Water Conveyance. built in 1870, for 266 children; average attendance, 184; f'rom Hroadheath, The Co. per Miss Mary Leab, mistress canal, to Liverpool, Runcorn, Lymm, Warrington, St. George's National (mixed),Oakfield street, for 250 child­ Manchester, the Potteries & all parts of England, Henry ren; average attendance, 170; Miss Louisa Whit taker, Gee, agent ; John Hartley, clerk in charge mistress An omnibus runs from Broadheath to the Bleeding Wolf Bt John's National, Ashlcy road, for 400 children; average hotel, Ashley road, about every hour attendance, 300 ; Henry Stanley, master; infants' depart­ ment, Islington terrace, Newtown, for r6o children; average attendance, 135 ; Miss Nellie Percival, mistress Carriers. St. Margaret's, Albert street (mixed), erected in 1858, To Manchester, George Baguley, from Market place, daily for 250 children; average attendance, 200 ; Jonathan Suttnn & Co. Parcel Delivery Co. daily Critchlow, master John Hawkins, from Finchley road, daily BOWDON is an extensive parish and township, 9 miles acquitted, .1676, ob. 2 January, 1693-4; and to Mary 110nth from Manchester, 7 from Knutsford, 12 from North­ (Langham), his countess, ob. 23 March, 1690·91; here also wich and 1 south-west from Altrincham, with a station is another large mural monument, with Ionic pillars sup­ locally in Stamford road, Altrincham, on the Manchester, porting a pediment adorned with figures of cherubs, and at South Junction and Altrincham railway, and connected also the back a shield of arms of 6o quarterings and two with the neighbouring stations on the London and North medallion portraits; on the monument is a long inscription Western and Cheshire Lines railways, in the Altrincham to the Hon. Langham Booth, d. 12 May, 1-724; and to the division of the county, hundred and union of Bucklow, Hon. Henry Booth M.P. for Cheshire, 166r-8o, d. 2 Altrincham county court district, rural deanery of Bowdon, February, 1726-7: near the Carrington chapel is a fine archdeaconry of Macclesfield and diocese of Chester. The monument with recumbent effigies, to William Brereton township occupies a commanding eminence, affording fine esq. of Asbley, ab. 29 August, 1630, and .lane (Warburton), views of the valley of the Bollin and the surrounding country his wife, ob. 2 March, 1627 ; the figure of the former lies for many miles ; its delightful and healthy situation, and under an arch in the upper stage of the monument, and the facilities of railway communication which it enjoys, below, under a marble canopy, supported on pillars of the have made it a popular place of residence for the wealthier Corinthian order, is that of his wife ; ten members of the classes of Manchester. "The Local Government Act, 1858," Brereton family were buried here from 1570 to 166o, and was adopted 22 January, 1864, but under the "Local the registers also record numerous baptisms: in the chan­ Government Act, 1894," the township is now governed cel proper is a brass to the Hev. John Kingsley M.A. formerly by an Urban District Council, and supplied with water by curate here, and some t1me vicar of Dunbam l\Iassey, d. the North Cheshire Water Co. The parish church of the November, 1869; and one to the Ven. William Pollock n.n. Blessed Virgin Mary, first erected during the 8axon times, vicar of Bowden and Archdeacon of Chester, d. u October, and thrice restored, according to a brass inscription in the 1873 ; and there are other memorials to Thomas Assheton interior, in the years uoo, 1320 and 1570, was rebuilt with Smith esq. d. 1769. and Harriet, his wife, d. 1778, and w mlargements, on the same site, in 186o, at a cost of Thomas, their son, d. 1774; and to Edward Jeremiah £15,000, under the direction of Mr. W. H. Brakspear, Lloyd esq. of Oldfield Hall, d. 3 July, 1850: the stained &rchitect, of Manchester, in the Transition style between east window was presented by W. Neild esq. in memory of the Decorated and Perpendicular periods, and is a cruciform his wife, who died in 1859, and the west window, & edifice, consisting of chancel, with north and south chapels, memorial to Margaret Annie Clegg, was placed in 1854 by transepts, clerestoried nave, north and south porches, and her parents ; the large stained windows in the transepts an embattled western tower, 91 feet in height, with pin­ were given by Lady Murra.y, of Oldfield HaD, and E. n:icles, and containing a clock and 6 bells ; the base of the Joynson esq. of Bowdon, and there are five others, chiefly tower forms a western porch: both chapels were formerly memorials: the font, presented in x86o by Miss Joyn.son, used as the burying places for the Earls of Stamford and consists of an octagonal basin of Painswick stone, richly Warrington, but the present family vault is under the south carved, and supported on a shaft of Devonshire marble: er Dunbam chapel, in which chapel there is a fine mural the brass lectern was the gift in 1891 of F. G. Napier esq.: monument with inscribed tablet, sculptures and allegorical there are x, 164 sittings, in addition to those in the Dunham figures to Henry, 2nd Baron Delamere and 1st Earl of chapel : the churchyard was levelled and inclosed by a wall Warrington, tried for high treason, but honourably and railings in I 86o, and further extended and inrlosed in