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Towards Manchester D 1 Some of these buildings and attractions are open to the public. Please them for details of opening contact This leaflet is available in large print please contact 0161 224 2020 for details print please contact 0161 224 2020 for in large leaflet is available This Research urban design students by of Manchester University at the for Neighbourhood Masterplan. ains rch. culpture of culpture 1982. of Victorian philanthropy, and Short Trail (Approx 1hr) yle.It has recently been converted back to use as a Church. te and Park during the great period Cross. A Gothic priest’s house is attached A Gothic priest’s Cross. to the side of chu details on previous page Ardwick Heritage Trail details on previous page details on previous page he lodge railings and gate piers are Grade II listed. - II * Grade Contact 0161 275 2634 Contact Contact 0161 275 7450 Contact Take a trip back in time and bring Manchester history to life on the Long Trail (Approx 1hr 30mins) garden,complete with bandstand and large sailing lake, and was opened in 1890.There is a statue of Edward VII by John Cassidy that was History 1821). Society (founded collection of wallpapers. The land for Whitworth Park was secured in 1887 through a bequest by Joseph Whitworth.The land was drained and laid out for a pleasure The finished by Paul Waterhouse in 1902 was begun in 1898 and has its foundations in the Manchester Natural daughters, who lived Meta and Julia, at Plymouth Grove, of the school. amongst the founders were now to some of the UK’s finest collections of art and design including modern and historic fine art, prints, textiles and a rare ‘Christ Blessing the Little Children’by George Tinworth from 1895 have been lost. a circular window with the tracerya circular window of the Armenian in the form Waterhouse, (who also designed Manchester’s until 1902. not completed Hall) yet Waterhouse, Town is toppedcentre a stone cupola.T by regular swimmer at Victoria Baths. Number 14 Dover St (now demolished) was the home of Elizabeth and whose Contact 0161 929 7799 Contact Joseph Whitworth,after whom the park and gallery were named. JW Beaumont won a competition in 1891 to design the Gallery which is the inventor of the cab that bears his name.The tower was added in 1928 by Gilbert Scott.The church is still regularly used for services. recruiting area of the battalion. However, some of the original a bandstand and s However, of the park such as boating lake, features of the battalion. area recruiting . The Gothic Waterhouse Quadrangle on Oxford Rd was commissioned in 1869 with designs by Alfred it is typical of Edwardian style.Thebrick and terracotta hospital was home to the first fully funded NHS IVF unit in UK by Edgar Wood in the Arts and Crafts style with Art Nouveau motifs. It has a steeply pitched roof, tall dormer windows, a conical slate roof silk merchants.The church is of a low with simple furnishing in keeping with the Armenian tradition.The key design, West Gable cont notable alumnae including Christabel, Slyvia and Adela Pankhurst, as well as Sunny Lowry, the first to swim the Channel and a designed by E T Hall and John Brooke and is a vast building in Greenwich Baroque style. Constructed of brick and stone, its monumental on a round tower,semicircular arched windows and a lynch gate in matching st Contact: 0161 273 2435 Contact: was originally a voluntary cultural, educational and technical institution marking the memory of the North West’s great industrialist, Sir 10.The Holy Trinity Armenian of Manchester Church unveiled in 1913 (Grade II listed) and a First World War memorial to the 1/7th Battalion The Manchester Regiment, located within the old 1. 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gaskell house Victoria Baths PAnkhurst Centre , Manchester, M13 9LW Hathersage Road, Manchester, M13 0FE 60-62 Nelson Street, Manchester, M13 9WP Discover the legacy of Take a literary tour around Victoria Baths, a magnificent Visit the home of the most one of Manchester’s few Edwardian building. famous women’s rights remaining Regency-style Restoration Phase 1 has activist, Emmeline villas where iconic transformed the front of the Pankhurst and learn about Victorian novelist Elizabeth building including the Manchester-born Gaskell once lived. many of the beautiful movement. stained glass windows.

Literary history surrounds The Gaskell House, the home of Manchester’s Victoria Baths was opened in 1906 and Experience the living history of the Pankhurst Centre, celebrated novelist from 1850 to 1865. remains a remarkably intact example of Edwardian former home to the founder of the women’s The Grade II* listed villa, currently painted in distinctive architecture. movement, . pink, has important literary connections. Not only was it where Mrs Gaskell lived while writing such classics as Filled with lavish tiling and mosaic floors, the building Born in 1858, Emmeline lived at 62 Nelson Street ‘’ and ‘North and South’, but other acclaimed originally housed three differently classed swimming between 1898 and 1908 with her family. It was at this writers such as and Charlotte Bronte pools, a Turkish Bath and intricate stained glass windows, historic venue that the first meeting of the Women’s visited the Plymouth Grove property. including the stunning Angel of Purity. It attracted many Social and Political Union (WSPU) was held in the parlour Mancunians as well as famous faces including singer Louis and the Suffragette movement was born. The house still retains many of its original features and Armstrong and Olympic medallist Duncan Goodhew MBE. boasts beautiful reception rooms. Money is being raised After 88 years of people swimming, socialising and Now a women’s community centre, the site for restoration work, which will make the house more scrubbing themselves clean, the pool closed its doors in commemorates the Pankhurst family and the campaign freely available to the community, and encourage both the 1993. Ten years later, it was given a new lease of life and for votes for women. study of Elizabeth Gaskell’s works and of Victorian £3.5million when it won the BBC’s Restoration series. Manchester.

Visitors can step into the past and experience a recreated Until restoration starts there are Open Days on the first Edwardian parlour in the centre’s heritage area. Original Sunday in every month (apart from January and February) Work to fully restore the baths began in 2007 in a bid to footage of the in action is on show and an from 12.00 till 4.00, and visits by arrangement on other ensure future generations enjoy this historical and exhibition area tells the story of the fight for female votes. days. Refreshments are available and there is a bookshop. architectural jewel. For more information and opening times contact: Janet Allen on 01663 744 233 For more information and opening times: For more information and opening times: [email protected] 0161 224 2020 [email protected] 0161 273 5673 www.elizabethgaskellhouse.org www.victoriabaths.org.uk [email protected]