PATRICROFT, PEEL GREEX, 'YIXTON; &C
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DIRECTORY.] PATRICROFT, PEEL GREEX, 'YIXTON; &c. 23 St. A.ndrew's Church (mixed), built in 18Br, for 409 for political and other meetings. The Eccles and Patricroft children ; average attendance, 14'5 ; Mrs. Elizabeth H. Hospital, in Cromwell road, a structure of red brick with Lingard, mistress. There is also a Wesleyan Chapel in stone facin~s, erected at a cost of £3,500, was originally Grange Drive established in I877 as a dispensary, but enlarged and con Railway Station-James Ryder, station master verted into a hospital in 1883; it contains IO beds for patients and is supported by voluntary contributions. The Win ton, formerly a hamlet of Barton-upon-Irwell town Public Baths, in .Milton stref't, erected by the old Barton ship, but now included witl1in the municipal borough of Eccle:;, is I mile north of Barton church. The population Local Board at a cost of £I, soo, fonul a square edifice of brick containing a large plun~e bath for gentlemen, 70 feet m I88r was 3,364; in I8gr, 4,447, and in rgOI, 6,488. St. by 30 feet, another and smallt::r one for ladies, 30 feet by I5 Michael's Mission room here is in connection with Christ feet, and 8 slipper baths. The offices of the Overseers of tho Church, Patricroft, and services are held on Sunday morning townships of Eccles, Harton Moss, Irlam and Davyhulme, at 10.3o,and erening at 6.30. : holy communion second sun erected in I89r, in the Liverpool road, at a cost of £2,ooo, day in the month. There i!! also a Free Methodist mission are of brick with st'lne dressings, and contain the usual in Hridgewater street. room offices. Here are the silk weaving mills of Messrs. Robinson Letters through Patrit.:roft., which is the nearest telegraph & Millington, and }lort & C'o. ; Samuel Brown & Co. silk office handkerchief manufacturers ; the extensive iron works of PosT & l\1. 0. & S. B. Oftlce, at the junction of New lane & Messrs. Nasmyth, Wilsou & Co. Limited; L. Gardner &; Worsley road.-~Iiss lVIary Gough, sub-postmistress. Sons Limited, engineers, Peel Green; Ermen &Roby,Limited, Box cleared at 8 & 9.40 a.m. & 1.5, 4.20 & 1·35 p.m. cotton thread manufacturers ; Sir Elkanah Armitage & Sons, week days; 6.15 p. m. Sundays. Limited and The Rridgewater Spinmng Co. Limited, cotton WALLLErn;R Box, near the'' Brown Co•v," cleared at 8 & spinners, and Hrowett, Lindley & Co. Limited, electrical 9·35 a. m. & r & 7.30 p.m. week days or..ly engineers; there are also several iron foundries. The The Old School is now used as a Mission Church in con Bridgewater trustees, Sir Humphrey F. De Trafford bart. nection with St. Mark's, Worsley & supplied by the clergy J.P. of Hill Crest, Market Harborough and Lieut.-Cul. thereof. Holy Communion 3rd Sunday in month at 8 Henry M. C. Legh D.L., JIP. of Higl1 Legh hall, Knutsford, .a. m.; Children's Service 1st Sunday in month 2 IS p.m. ; are the principal landowners. The population in I8]I was E\·ening Service every Sunday at 6.30 & Holy Communion 6,283; in I88I, 8,887; in I8gi, rz,go2, and in 190I, 14,465. 7·I5 a.m. with Evening Service 7.30 each Thursday Church Schools (infants), erected in 1888, for 270 children ; PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insuranca average attendance, 83; & supported by the Earl of Elles Office, 309 Liverpool road.-Thomas Guest, postmaster. mere ; l\Iiss l\fary Retford, mistress Letters through Manchester & Eccles, arrive week days at 5 & 6 a. m. & I2, 3.30 & 6 p.m. ; dispatched at 9· Io, IO.IO HOPE is an ecclesiastical parish, formed May 25, r826, & II.40 a.m. & 2, 5, 7, 8~ 9 p.m.; on Stmdays arrive from the civil parish of Ecc~es. The church of St. James, at 5 a.m. ; dispatched at 7 p.m. ; parcels dispatched at in Eccles Old road, Pendletun, built in I 86o, is an edifice of 10.45 a. m. & 8 p. m stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, Yire Brigade Station, Town's yard, Liverpool road, Patri aisles and a tower with spire detached frum the church, at croft-William Woodhead, superintendent t*le north-west angle, and containing one bell : the whole of Public Baths, Milton street-John Gregory, superintendent the windows are stained: the church was restored in I874, County Police Station, Liverpool road- Thomas Howarth, at a cost of £r,455, and affords 624 sittings, of which 209 inspector; Henry Gaiter & Edward Curnrnins, sergeauts, are free. The register dates from the year 186r. The & 4 constables living is a vicarage, net yearly value £350, with residence, Green Lane Station, Joseph \Voffenden, sergeant & 4 earl in the gift of five trustees, and held since I 8gr by the Rev. stables Robert Peel Willock M.A. of Hrasenose College, Oxford. VOLUNTEERS. Apparitor-Eli Bentley, 22 & 24 Gilda Brook road, Volunteer Battalion (First) ]lfanchester Reuiment; drill Eccles. u hall, Patricroft SALFORD UNION INFIRMARY. Steward-Thomas H. Johnson lion. Colonel-Earl of Crawford K.T., v.n .Jfatr(JI'I-Miss Annie Gertrude Sibley Lieut.-Colonel Commandant-Ban. Colonel J. Higson V.D Lieut.-Colonel Seconr.l in Command-Henry Darlington Medical O.fficers-Albert Ramsbottom M.n., ch.B. & Rowe v.D Hrennand Fletcher M.n., ch.H Majo1' .f Hon. Lieut.-Colonel-P. Fletcher v.n Chaplain-Rev. Samuel J. Bastow B.A Pat1·icrojt Companies.-G, Capt. & Hon. Major J. Andrew v.n.; K, Capt. C. Higsun; 0 (Cyclists), Hon. Major J Stott - National School (mixed), built in 1845 & enlarged in r9oo for I82 children; average attendance, I22; John M organ, Lieutenants-H. C. Darlington, :X. S. Brown, A. Hewlett, master G. K. Dury, A. E. Cronshaw, W. K. de C. Shearman & T. Hunter P ATRI CROFT is a village and ecclesiastical parish, Lieutenants-H. M. Rogers, C. Fletcher, R. H. Le~h & A. L. formed Mart.:h rg, 1869, from the civil parish of Eccles, and Hryham AdJutant-Capt. R. Gardner 18 197! miles from London, 26! from Liverpool and 5 west from Manchester, in Eccles township, and forms part of the Quarter llfaster-Hon. Capt. A. Crawley borough of Eccles and is in the petty sessional division of Medical qfficers-Surgeon-.Major W. M. Roocroft, Surgeon• Capt. W. F. O'Grady & Surg.-Capt. J. Orr M.n E~cles borough, with a station on the LiYerpool and Man chester hne of the London and North -\Vestern railway, in Acting Chaplain-Rev. H. W. 1\I. Gunning M.A the Eccles division of the county, Salford hundred, Barton Drill Instructor o/ Orderly Room Clerk-Sergt. Instr. S. upon-lrwell union, Salford county court district, rural Wilson deanery of Eccles and archdeaconry and diocese of Man BARTON-UPON-lRWELL UNION. chester. Christ Church, erected in 1868, at a cost of £4,500, Board day, alternate -Wednesdays at ro a.m. at the Board is a building of stone in the Early English style, and con room, Green lane, Patricroft. llists of chancel, nave of five bays with clerestory, aisles, north and south porches, vestry, organ chamber and a Barton-upon-Irwell union comprises the following town ilmall pinnacled western turret containing one bJll : there is ships :-Barton Moss, Clifton, Da,·yhulme, Eccles, :Fiix a memorial window to Mrs. Dale, wife of the Rev. Samuel ton, Irlam, Stretford, Swinton, Urmston & Worsley; the Dale, late incumbent, who died in 187 5 : the church affords area of the union is 24,552 acres ; rateable value for xgor, 6oo sittings, of which 3r8 are free. The register dates from £sgg,I8o; the population in I90I was II4,638 the year 1868. The living is a perpetual curacy, net yearly Chmrman to the Board of Guardiw!s-Henry Yates, Ryda I value £330, in the gift of the Bishop of Manchester, and mount, Boothstawn held since I893 by the Rev. William Wilkinson Dibb Firth Clerk to the Guardians if Assessment Committee John W. H.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge and chaplain of Whitworth, Patricroft; assistant clerk, John Ashworth Barton Union. Here are Con~regational, Baptist Patricroft and Wesleyan chapels and a United Methodist Free Treasurer-William Tipping, Manchester & Liverpool Di3 Church. The Volunteer Drill Hall, in Cromwell road, trict Hank, Manchester erected at a cost of £3,670, from designs by Mr. Assistant Ove1·seers if Collectors-Eccles, Barton Moss, G. H. Hunt, architect, of London, and now the head Davyhulme & Irlam, James Andrew, Liverpool road, quarters of the 1st Volunteer Ba:taliou Manchester Regi Patricroft; Clifton, John Berry, 732 Bolton road, Pendle ment, was opened January 16, 18g2, and 1s a spacious bury; I<'lixton & Urmston, C. L. Griffin, Urmston; Stret budding, containing a hall 101 by 53 feet, with a gallery at ford, George Gibbon, assllitant overseer, Town ball, Stret the end, and is capable of holding about 2,000 persons : ford & John S. Taylor, Ryecroft road, Stretford, collector; there is also a reading room 19 by ro feet, an attached Swinton, assistant overseer, W. T. Postlethwaite, Council armoury and store rooms, and a caretaker's residence. offices, Swinton; collector, J.E. Blandy, Council offiQes, Being the most capacious building in the bor(lugh it is used Swin~on; Wors:ey, Isaac Healey, Council offices, Walkden .