lHItECTORY.] HADG-ETONl HOOLEY ;HILL, &c.

ecclesiastical parish, formed ilr 18« from Ashtoh-under~ DentOn road. Hooley Hill Sub-Office.-Lees TaylorH Lyne civil -parish, aod 150 in the rural desoery of Ashton­ Sub-Pol!t ltfaster~ Dispatchll6, 8.15, 9.45 & II-4Da .m , under-Lyoo and archdeaconry and diocese of Manchester. 2.30 & 7.55 p.m.. j ..sundays, nQ dispatch The church of St. Stephen, in Guide Bridge, tlrected in 18-44, at a COl'lt of £3,500; is an edifiee in the Early URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. English style, consisting of chancel, built in 1900 at a cost of £1,700, nave, aisles and a western tower with Office':l, 2 Guide lane, Hooley HIll. octagonal spire containing 2 bells: there is a memoria.l Council Meetings, 1st Thursday in each month. D. D. window to the Right Rev. J am!lS Fraser bishop of MElIBKas. Manchester (1870-86), besides othen:;. The church was Ckairma7J, Charles Blyth.l. P. Cr-t\ig Lea, Stamford roa.d, restored in 1882 at a cost of £1,793. and affords 750 (retires 1911) sittings, 400 being free. The register da.tes from the year 1846. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value Vice-Chairman, Pete:.- Downs .l.P. HovinghaID house, £300, with residenre, in the gift of the Crown and the Dentoll road, Hooley Hill (retires 1913) Bishop of Manchester alternately, and held since 1900 Retire Walter Richardson, Guide lane, Hooley Hill ...... 1911 by the Rev. Charles Billington M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge. The vicarage house was erected n1lar the Charles Blyth .l.P. Craig Lea, Stamford road, old site in 1889 at a cost of £2,100. A new cemetery Audenshaw 1911 with chapel, coveri ng about 8i aetes, was pr0vided by the William Marsden, Martin st. Ashton-under-Lyne '191 I Council and opened in June, 1905. Here are extensi\'e Joseph Thornley, Cartwright street, Hooley Hill 1911 engineering works and cotton mills; R.nd many of the Paul Grundy, Guide lane, Hooley Hill 1912 David Heggie, Corporation road, Audenshaw 1912 inhabitants are employed in the manufaL:ture of hats. The trllstees of the Earl of Stamford, who is a minor, James Kellett, Stamford road, Audenshaw 1912 Thomas :Burgess, Railway Hotel, Audenshaw 1912 are lords uf the manor, and together with Edward John Thomas Pickles, Manchester road, Fairfield 1913 Sidebotham esq. J.P. of Bowdon, are the principal land­ James Learmouth, The Willows, Fllirfield 1913 owners. The area is 1,165 acres; rateable value, Peter Downs J.P. Hovingham house, Denton road, £46,126 IS.; the popUlation of the urban district in Hooley Hill 1913 0 19 9 was 7,749. . Zachariah Pike, Denton road, Hooley Hill 1913

PUBLlC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. Ol'PICIALS. (Under control of the Education Clerk ~ &licitor, Fredk. Hamer, 2 Guide la. Rooley Hill Committee, Area 56.) Treasure.r, Henry Ed. Poole, City & Midland Bank, Clerk, W. F. Knott, Parish offices, Ashton-under-Lyne Audenshaw Medwal Officer of Health, D. H. Cheetham M.B. Ashton- Audenshaw (Ch. of Eng.) (mixed), built in 1847, at a under-Lyne cost of £ 1,5°0, for 428 chi ldren; average attendance, Engineer ~ SUTueljor, William Clongh, 2 Guide lane 395; Thomas Dowbiggin, mastAr; Miss N. Williams, School Attenda1we Officer, \V. W. Ball, 2 Guide lane infants' mistress Rate Collector ~ Assistant Overseer, Francis Cooper, 2. Audenshaw (Ch. of Eng.), Hooley Hill (mixed), built in Guide lane 1871, at a cost of £1,100, and enlarged in 1884, for 300 Sanitary Inspector et .Assistant Suroeyor, J. T. Dewhurst, children; average attendance, 250; John William 2 Guide lane, Hooley Hill Bramall, master j Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Sellars, infants' mistress PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. Hooley Hill Council (mixed), built in 1876, for 400 children; average attendance, 230; Jame:! Wm. Mack­ Audenshaw Liberal Club, 16 Whitehead street, contains lin, master; Mrs. Bertha JacksJn, infants' mistress billiard & recreation rooms & will accommodate about Hooley Hill (Wesleyan), built in 1854 & eularged in 20;) m6mbers 1884, & rebuilt 19°2, for 500 children; average at­ Connty P,)lice Station, 155 Denton rd. Christopbel' tendance, 301; Gilbert Al'thur Humpbreys, master; H umphreys, inspector, & I sergeant. & 6 constables Miss Mary K Smith, infants' mistress Audenshaw Council. built in 19°9; the I:lchool will hold PUBLIC OFFICER. 300 children; average attendance, 240; Benj. Greaves Registrar of Births et Deaths fOT Audemhaw Sub-district, A.C.P. master; Miss Fanny Finch, infants' mistress William Walker, jun. Guide lane, Hooley Hill; attend­ Church of Home for Girls (Miss Olive Davison, ance thurs. 2 to 3 p.m matron), Audenshaw road PLACES OF WORSHIP, WITH TIMES OF Sl"RVICES. RAILWAY STATIONS. St. Stephen's, Audenshaw-Rev. Charles Billington M.A. Fairfield (Great Central), H. Gadsby, station master vicar; Rev. Trayis Cbeetham B.A. curate; ~ & 10.30 Guide Bridge (Great Central), Thomas Ward, station a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7.30 p.m master; David W. Vernon, goods agent forGo C.; W. We!'lleyan Methodist Ch~pel, Guide lane--1O.30 a.m. H. Hall, goods agent for the Midland; F. Holcroft, & 6 p.Ol.; wed. 7.30 p.m goods agent for L. & N. W.; John T. Illingworth, Congregational Chapel, Bridge st. HooIey Hill-lo.30 good.; agent for G. N. R a.ill. & 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7.45 p.m Hooley Hill CL. & N. W.) United Methodist Chapel, Hooley Hill-IO.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; wed. 7.30 p.m. CARRIERS. United Methodist Chapel, Red Hall, Audenshaw rd­ 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; tues. 7.30 p.m Benjamin Hibbert & Sans. St..mford road, Hooley Hill J"ames Pollitt (G. C. R.) Hooley Hill AUDENSHAW HIGHER EDUCATIO~ POST OF~'ICE, '2.44 Audenshaw I'd. -Georgo Slack, Sub­ COMMITTEE. Post Mruter. Letters through :Manchester, delivered Chairman, J. Kellett from Hooley Hill; dispatehed at 8.15 & 9.20 a.m. & WaIter Richardson, David Heggie, Charle3 Blyth J_P. :2.30 & 7.30 p.m.; sundays, 4.30 p.m. Telegrams R. Findle, J oseph Thornley, Thomas Burge::.s, Z. Pike .addressed tu Auden~haw are received at Hooley Hill & W. Wrigley -office. The nellrest money order & telegraph office Secretary, William F. Knott, Audenshaw is at Stockport 1',1. Ashtun-under-Lyne. Postal orders are issued &, p