Burnage, Heaton Chapel, Heaton Mersey, Heaton Moor, Reddish and Neighbourhoods
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' Burnage, Heaton Chapel, Heaton Mersey, Heaton Moor, Reddish and Neighbourhoods. EVEr>SHULME is a township and village and was are Grimshaw's trustees, the Dean and Canons of l\lan I j formed into an ecclesiastical parish June 28, r86r, from chester, Thomas William Rostron esq. J. P. of Alderley Edge ; the civil parish of Manchester, with Rusholme, Gorton and Nicolas Tindal-Carill-Worsley esq. of Platt Hall, Rusholme ; .Newton detached. There are stations here on the London E. L. Hulme esq. and Ed ward Greaves esq. The population and North Western and the Ureat Central (late M. S. & L.) of the township in 1902 was 13,500, in 1907, 19,000 and railways, 3 miles south-east from Manchester and 3 north in r9o8, 19,500; the acreage of the township and ecclesias west from Stockport, and the vilbge is on the Roman road, tical parish is 6o6 acres: rateable value, district rate, between Manchester and Stock port, in the Stretford division £76,534; poor rate, £81 ,65g; rateable value of agricul <>f the county of Lancaster, Salford hundred, Chorlton union, tural land, £349 ros. Manchester county court district, rural deanery of Ardwick Apparitor-Thomas Warrington, 20 Ballaratt street. and archdeaconry and diocese of Manchester. The township is governed by an Urban District Council of 12 members, PosT, Parcel, M. 0., T. 0., S. B. & Express Delivery Office constituted under the Local Government Act, 1894. The & Telephone Office, 21 Albert road.-Percy McKenzie <:hnrch of St. Peter, erected in 186o, is in the Gothic style, Howard, sub-postmaster. Letters through Manchester, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, north porch and a arrive at 7 a.m. 12.30, 3.30 & 6.5 p.m.; dispatched at western tower, octagonal spire, containing a clock and one 8.30, 9 & 10.20 a.m. 12 noon, 2.5, 4·55• 8.30 & 9.25 bell, added in 1865: there is a memorial window to P. W. p.m.; sundays, arrive 7 a.rn. & dispatched at 8 p.m. Hammond esq. presented by his family in 1867: and Parcels post dispatched xo. 10 a.m. & 1. so & 8 p.m. Open <>thers to the Rev. E. C. Hore, first rector, who died in on sundays from 8 to 10 a.m.for sale of stamps & telegrams August, 1888, Mr. George Gyte, d. Hjc6 and Mr. H. Nail, <l. 1895: the west window has been filled with stained Po,T & J\I. 0. 0. & S. B. 6 Stockport road (North Levens glass in memory of Queen Victoria : the church was hulme).-Miss Catherine E. Chamberlin, sub-post enlarged in 1871 and internally improved in 1872 and mistress. Dispatches, 8.ro, 9.15 &xr.4oa.m. 1.45, 2.10, again in 1896, and will seat 750 persons, 200 sittings being 4·5· 8 & g. p.rn.; sundays, 6.30 p.m iree. The register dates from the year r 854. The living PosT & M. 0. 0. & S. B. 244 Stockport road (South Levens is a rectory, net yearly value £5oo, in the gift of five hulme).-Ernest Harry Jones, sub-postmaster. Dis trustees, and held since 1904 by the Rev. Robert Erne,t patches, 8.15, 9.40 & 11.15 a.m. 1.30, 2.30, 4.3o, 7.50 & Tanner M. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. St. Andrew's, 9 p.m. ; sundays, 6 45 p.m South Levenshulme, is an ecclesiastical parish comprising that part of the parish of Levenshulme lying south of the PosT OFFICE, S. H. & )I. 0. Broom lane. -Samuel line of the Great Central Railway. The new parish church, Chetham, sub-postmaster. Letter oox cleared at 8.15, in Stock port road, was consecrated in 1908 :it affords seating 9.30 & II a.m. 1.3o, 2.15, 4.2o, 7.40 & 8.50 p.m.; .accommodation for 550 persons. The living is a rectory, net sundays, 6.30 p.m yearly value £3oo, in the gift of the Crown and the Bishop of Manchester alterr.ately, and held since 1899 by the Rev. Henry Hickling M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. The Urban District Council. parish of St. Mark was formed from that of St. Peter in rgo2. Officrs, Stockport road. The church, in Barlow road, erected at a cost of £r,2oo, will seat 300 persons. The foundation stone of a new ~.:h urch Board day, fourth Monday in evt:ry month at 7.30 p.m. -to seat 5.30 persons was laid in Sept. 1907, and the building completed in 1908. The living is a rectory, in the gift MEMBERS. of the Crown and Bishop of Manchester alternately, net Chairman-John :\IcKean McLachlan J.P yearly value £3oo, and held since 1902 by the Re,T. Joseph Vice-Ciwirma11.-William Henry Knibbs Wood. The Catholic church, in Clare road, dedicated to .St. Mary of the Angels and St. Clare and built in 1879, Retire 1908. Retire 1909 . will seat 100 persons. In the same road is a com·ent of the T. H. Drinkwater R. A. 1J. Carter order of Poor Clares, built in 1869, for 27 inmates. The United S. Whittall F. J<'cnn Methodist chapel, opened in September, 1865, will seat 400 Dr. H. S. Smi1.h A. Kent persons. The Congreg-<~.tional chapel, built in 188r at a cost R. Burtles W. H. Winnett <lf £3,300, is a Gothic edifice of stone and brick, with a tower .at the north-west angle surmounted by an octagonal spire; Retire 19ro . it will seat 500 persons; the former chapel, is now used as J. M. McLachlan J.P F. W. W. Breakell .a Sunday school. Zion Congregational chapel, built in W. H. Knibbs l R. Rostron r8g8, is an edifice of brit:k, seating 350 persons. The Cle1·k Clerk to Education Committee-James Ugden Wesleyan chapel, built in 1865 at a cost of £4,000, will seat 9' Hard1cker, Grange a\Tenue ·soo; the old chapel, in Chapel street, is used for Sunday Treasu·rer-Thomas Bouchier :\Ioxon, Lancashire & York -schools and as a mission hall. The New Carnegie Library shire Bank Ltd. Levenshulme in Cromwell grove, erected at a cost of £2,500, comprises Medical Officer of Health-Herbert Ebenezer Edlin L.R.C.P. lending department, adults' reading room, ma,Q!II.zine room Land., M.B.c.s.Eng. 4 ~tockport road and the usual offices. The building was given by Andrew .Surveyor-James Jepson, 8 Teviot dale, Stockport .Carnegie esq. and the site by A. McDaugall esq. of Man Sanitary Inspectm·-J.E. Lord, 59 Garfield av. Levenshulme chester. The offices of the Urban D1strict Council were Collecto:r-Cyril de-la-Wyche, Slade lane erected in 1898, in Stockport road, at an estimated cost of aoout £7,000. Messrs. Ma~ons Limited, engineers &c. have extensive works and offices & W. F. Mason Limited have works in Barlow lane for the manufacture of bakers' OvERSEERS oF THE PooR. ovens ; wire mattresses and machine tools are also made Raeper James, Inchmarlo, Grange avenue, Levenshulme here. The township contains many modern residences. Kmbbs William Henry, Almora ho. Slade la. Levenshulme There is no lord of the manor. The principal landowners Kent Arthur, 21 Marshal! road, Levenshulme .