26 , , , [SLATER'S • St. Mary of the Angels & St. Clare (Roman Catholic), ScHOOL:- Clare road; Right Rev. Mgr. Robert Croskell n.n., v.G. (St. Margaret's) National, Burnage lane; built about 1859 provost; Rev. William Mm·an, cm·ate; sundays, 9 & 11 for 2IO children ; average attendance, 95-Arthur L. a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; daily, 7.30 a.m. (winter), 7 a.m. Pierce. master : Miss Miriam Chodton. infants' mistress (summer) ; thurs. 8 p.m Congregational, Stockport road; Rev. R. C. Scurrah HEATON CHAPEL is the popular name of the LL.D. ; 10.30 a. m. & 6.30 p.m. ; wed. 7·45 p.m northern portion of , but ecclesiastically the Zion Congregational, Clare road; Rev. Gerard Nicholson; church is styled St. Thomas', Heaton Xorl"is, and is under 10.30 a.m. & 0.30 p.m.; wed. 8 p.m the jurisdiction of the Urban Council for that district, of Methodist (Free), Stockport road; 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; which it forms a ward. St. Thomas's, the mother church wed. !l p.m of Heaton N orris, is a quaint-looking structure of brick, now Mission Hall (Wesleyan), Chapel street; various ministers; covered with plaster and painted, and was consecrated as a 6.30 p.m chapel of ease to " 'fh' Owd Church " of in Primitive Methodist Connexion (Crescent College Church), 1765 ; it was enlarged several times during the last cen­ The Crescent; 10.45 a. m. & 6.30 p.m. sun tury, and the building now consists of chancel, nave, tran­ sept:l, aisles, north porch and a wooden turret at the west Schools. end containing one bell: all the windows are stained, the St. Mark's school church, Barlow road, opened in January, east window, placed in I864, being a memorial to Mrs. I894, at a cost of £1,200, for 181 children; average attend­ Harriet Taylor ; and some of the remaining ones contain a ance, I7 5 ; Mrs. Edith Parkins'l~. infants' mistress. Ser­ complete collection of tb.e arms of all the English and Welsh vice is held in the school on sun day at 6.30 p. m. ; holy sees: in 1897 a new organ was erected at a cost of over communion 2nd sunday in the month at evening service ; £700 : the mural tablets include some to the Travis family, 8.30 a.m. on 4th sunday : there are free & unappro­ one to Dr. Bird, and another to the Rev. E. Dudley Jackson, priated seats for 300 persons. Sunday school 9.30 a.m. rector of Heaton Norris 1844 to 188o: the clmrch affords & 2.15p.m go6 sittings. Baptisms and burials date from the erection St. Andrew's, Stockport road, built fur 270 children ; aver­ of the " chapel," but It was not licensed fol" marr1age~ till age attendance, 204 ; 1\Irs. Harriet Bean, head mistress I 837. The living in March, I 8 so, was retumecl as a district St. Peter's National, Barlow road (mixed & infants), erected chapelry under the 59 George HI. cap. 134 : it is now, in I855 & enlarged in 1884, for 415 children; average under the provisions of the " Parisll of Manchester Division attendance, 415 ; Frederic Barrs, mastel"; Miss Ann Act, 185o," a separate rectory, net yearly value of £5~0, Roberts, infants' mistress with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Canons of Man· St. Mary's (Catholic), Clare road (mixed), erected in I8g8, chester, and held since 1900 by the Rev. William Henry for 202 children ; average attendance, 16o; Miss Agnes Brayshaw M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. There is Beatrice Holt, mistress a precise record, in the Commissioners' Reports on Charities Free Methodist British, Stockport road (mixed & infants), and Education, 1815-1839, of a fme school, called the" Tithe built in 1865 & enlarged in I885, for 3~0 children ; Barn Charity School," the endowment of which consist~d of average attendance, 340; Joseph Burgess, master ; Miss two houses, which appear to have stood somewhere not far Vietta Monks, infants' mistress from Mauldeth Hall. That charity, however, has dis­ appeared. "Hollingpriest's charity school" (now, under Railway Stations. the scheme of I889, styled "Hollingpriest'sj Educational Levenshulme & Burnage (L. & N. W.), Albert road-James Charity''), was founded in 1712: the income arising from Hyde, station master tile chal"ity is utilised fol" providing exhibitinns of£wa year Levenshulme (Great Central Railway), Stockport road­ each, according to the funds in hand, to enable poor George .B. Ellis, station master childi"en with promising abilities to have at leas' one year's extra instl"uction at some high school: the list of Conveyance. eo-optative trustees has been augmented by other trustees, To Manchester (Manchester Corpora.tionTramways)-Tra.m­ one being eL'cted (for one year) from each of the places in way cars pass throug~ from Stm:kptH't evel"y quarter-hour the old parish of Heaton Norris, where there are public from 8 a.m. to 9 so p.m. ; sunclay~, every 20 minutes elementary school!'. The are'!. of the ecclesiastical parish is from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. then evel"y 10 minutestill9·3o p.m 515 acres; the popul3tion in 1881 was 3,I6o, and in r8gt 2,269 ; and of the ward-area, 321 acres; rateable value, Carriers. £18, r64; and population, 2,496. Those between Manchester & Sto~kport p'tss through several PosT & M. 0. 0., S. H., Annuity & Insurance Office, Man· times daily; Sutton & Co. from Miss Cor bet's, 77 Stock­ chester road, Heaton Chapel.-Mrs. E. Birch, sub­ port road postmistress. Letters are dispatched to t:itockport at 8 & IO a.m. & 12. 30, 2. 15, 5· I.), 8 & 9· 10 p.lll. ; Sundays, 8.30 BURNAGE is a tnwnship and pal"i~h, formed in 187S p.m. The nearest telegraph office is at out of the civil parish of M-tnchestel", from which it is about 3 miles south-south-east, in the Stretford division of the PosT, M. 0. & S. B., Annuity & Insurance Office, 209 Man­ county, union, Sto.:kport county court district, chester road. -Harold \Vareham,sub-t:ostmaster. Letters , and is the site of a Roman settlement. dispatched 8. IS & IQ a. m. I2.30· 5· rs, 8 & 9·5 p.m; The church of St. Margaret, erected by subscription in 1875 sunday box cleared 8.30 p.m at a cost of £4,000, is a building of stone in the Early Eng­ WALL LETTER Box cleared at 8.10 a. m. 12.30, 2.15, 5.15, lish style, consisting of chancel, nave and aisles: there are 8 & 9 p.m. ; sundays, 9 p.m 300 sittings. The register dates from the year It37S· The St. Thomas' Church, Wellington road, Heaton Chapel-Rev. living is a rectory, net yearly value {.250, with residence, William Henry Brayshaw M.A. rector : 8, I0.30 llr 6.3(); in the gift of the Bishop of Manchester, and held since 1875 wed. 7·45 p.m by the Rev. Edward Alfred Brown M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge. There is a Congregational chapel, built in SCHOOL :- 1869, and seating about 230 pel"sons. The extensive St. Thomas', Wellington road, Hcaton Chapel (mixed & premises-.of the Queen Laundry are situated here. Earl infants), built in 1892 at a cost of £3,683, for 46o child· Egel"ton of Tattun is lord of the manor and chief landowner. ren ; average attendance, mixed 18o, infants 50; the o!d The soil is chiefly clay; the crops are wht·at, oats, potatoes, school, built in 1867, is now used as an infants' school; turnips and grass. The area is 666 acres ; I"ateable value, Wm. Albert Hindley, master; u. E. Briscoe, infants' mist £9.299; the tJopulation in 1891 was 1,603 and in IgDI it RAILWAY STATIOY :- was 1,8g2. L. & N. W.-Joseph Swindlehurst, station master PosT OFFICE, Burnage lane-William Chorlton, sub-post­ master. Letters through Manchester, via ; HEAT ON MERSEY is an ecclesiastical parish, formed dispatched at 8.I5 & II a.m. 4.15 & 7·35 p.m. The Feb. 7, 1852, under the "Manchester Rectory Division Act," nearest money order & teleg-raph office is at Heaton out of lleaton Norris, and is pleasantly seated on the river Mersey; postal oroel"S are issued here, but not paid Mersey, with a station on the Midland railway, 2 miles wes' There is a WALL LETTER Box opposite Hurnage hall & from .Stockport, in the Stretford division of , Sal­ another at the Victoria hotel, corner of Mauldeth road ford hundred, Stockport union and county court district PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of services :- and the petty sessional division of Heaton Norris, and forms St_ Margaret's church, Burnage lane-Rev. Edward A. a ward within Hea.ton Norris Urban District. Ecclesias• Brown M.A. rector;·10.45 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; wed. 9 tically it is in the rural deanery of and arcn· a.m.; fri. 7.30 p.m. Holy communion, Ist & 3rd sunday deaconry and diocese of Manchester. The church of in month at noon; others at 8 a. m St. John the Baptist. erected at a cost of £4.252, and Congregational Church, Moodon avenue, Burnage lane ; consecrated August 26th, 18so, is a building in the Early I I a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; wed. 8 p.m English 11tyle, consisting of chancel, nave and 110uth porch, Wesleyan Mission Hall, Burnage lane; ·I0.45 a.m a:r.d a western tower with pinnacles and spire containing one