' i' .,Mi.'.>> I "' i,'"' * "',1. I' '. > ' ', ' ^ 1 > > ' . r --;--i.U.'. V ;i' •> 1,'Vi •';".< " ' . ' ' ' '' ' ' ' ' " ' ; ++ ; DA 690 \ I m S31 CHES '<'Vift'*<VtIi\''I>i OLD AND NEW R*V,.*i^V'*>i:Vk^^/V('* . ''! •" ft\ «^! TLtUSTRj\TlD ii OLM v> LIBRARf ^z*'', W^^pi^ ip. CORNELL UNIVERSITY LI8HARY 1924 052 531 799 MANCHESTER OLD AND NEW The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924052531799 CHURCH PARADE, WHITWORTH PARK, AND UNION CHAPEL. 27 U^ .Ms MANCHESTER OLD AND NEW BY WILLIAM ARTHUR SHAW M.A. FELLOW OF OWENS COLLEGE WITH ILLU8TBATI0N8 AFTER ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY H. E. TIDMARSH THE ARMS OP MANCHESTKE VOLUME III CASSELL A^B COMPAJSTY Limited LONDON PARIS Sf MELBOURNE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ——— CHAPTER VII. CHURCH AND CHAPEL {Continued). The Primitive Methodists—United Methodist Free Church—Dr. Warren—The Welsh Calvinists—Free- Lance Mission Chapels—Independent Methodists —Bible Christians—Bryanites—Salvation Army Dissent in Manchester—Cross Street Chapel—A Stronghold of Unitarianism — Other Unitarian Chapels—The Labour Church—The Independents—William Roby—Dr. Macfadyen—Dr. McAll John Gassell—Rusholme and Broughton Park—The Baptists—Union Chapel^Dr. McLaren—The Presbyterians—Jew, Greek, and Proselyte ... CHAPTER VIII. LITERARY, ARTISTIC, AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS. Some Alanchester Printing Clubs, and the Sin that doth so easily beset us—Mr. George MLlner—The " Lit. and Phil." — Dalton and Joule — Professor Schuster and Dr. Schunck — The Manchester Athenaeum and its visitors of yore—Emerson, Dickens, Lytton—The Royal Manchester Institution and art patronage—Manchester v. Liverpool ; Did you bite your thumb at us 1—Music, then and now — Musical and other Heredity — The oldest festival in England, and Malibran — The Gentlemen's Glee Club and Hall^ —-A Life Work—The Botanical Society and Gardens —The Theatres and their bright particular stars — The old Royal— Macready, Knowles, Calvert —The Shakesperean revivals — Latter-day decline — Politics, So-called — What's your ticket? — The City's Representatives, and the City's Clubs—The Union, the Clarendon, and the Arts—Newspapers Slightly advanced, but whither?—The Guardian and Courier— C. P. Scott and Sir Thomas Sowler —A Paragon of City papers and its Editor, Mr. Nodal—Scorners of the ground, after aU ... 28 CHAPTER IX. THE SHIP CANAL. The Canal no New Idea—The Mersey and Irwell Navigation—Sold to the Ship Canal Company—The Sankey Canal—The First of the Bridgewater Canals —The Duke's Coals—The New Navigation — vi MANCHESTER OLD AND NEW. The Canal Charges—Railway Competition—Defeat of the Canal Owners—How the Demand for the Ship Canal Arose—Liverpool's Opposition—The Mersey Dock and Harbour Trust—The Ship Canal that was First Projected—Mr. George Hicks—The Dinner at Mr. Adamson's—The First, Second, and Third Bills —Daniel Adamson—Issue of the Prospectus —The Company Floated at Last —Thomas Andrew Walker—Course and Construction of the Canal—Opening Day ... ... 70 CHAPTER X. SALFOED. The Question of Amalgamation with Manchester—Salford's Pride in her History—Salford Antiquity The Township and Hundred—^The Royal Borough—The Hundred Court and the Court of Record —The County Court—The Quarter Sessions —Later History of Salford—The Old Cross and Court House—Salford at the end of Last Century—The Corporation—Some Notable Names The Salford Town Hall and Hospitals —Pendleton and Broughton Notes—Peel Park Statues and Museums—Langworthy and Brotherton—Their Mantle of Liberalism—Parliamentary Members : Benjamin Armitage, William Mather, and Sir H. H. Howorth ... ... ... ... ... 96 CHAPTER XI. THE SUBURBS. Moss and Moor, Forest and Sand Dune—The Real Suburbs—The Absorbed Outskirts - Given over to Yulcan—Remnants of Rusticity—Belle Vue Gardens— The Wild Beasts and the Fireworks "Mary Barton" and its Local Colour—Newton Heath— Clayton Hall—Blackley—Hulme Hall Barton— The Traffords—Old Trafford—The Blind and Deaf and Dumb Asylums—The Manchester Cricket Club—The Lancashire County Club—Mr. Hornby's Achievements by One Who Knew Cricket Celebrities •— Pomona Gardens — Ordsall Hall — The Suburbs Cheshirewards — Favourite Holiday Resorts—Barlow Hall—Hough End Hall—Didsbury^—Northenden—Wythenshawe Hall Baguley Hall— Burnage—Reddish—Harden Hall—The Suburbs of the Future—Marple Hall—John Bradshaw—The Northern Country—Prestwich Cloughs—Worsley—The Old Duke of Bridgewater The Egertons—Tatton Park 119 PAGE St. Tliomas's Churcli, and Town Hall, Pendleton 1 The Union Club, Mosley Street : The Whit-Monday Cross Street Chapel Procession 60 Primitive Methodist Chapel, Great Western Street, and The Conservative Club and Cross Street Chapel 61 St. James's Chnrch ... ... ... ' ... The Reform Club, King Street 63 Ardwick Green United Methodist Free Church, and In- The Ardwick Volunteers and Jewsbury and Brown's Works 64 dustrial School Band 4 The Portico Library, Mosley Street 65 Moss Side Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel 5 Charles Prestwich Scott 68 Salvation Army Temple, Grosvenor Street 8 Night Watchman 69 Cross Street Chapel 9 "Manchester to Liverpool, 2s." (1834). 70 Strangeways Unitarian Chapel 11 Bridgewater Docks, Castlefield 71 Grosvenor Street Congregational Chapel 12 The Old Bridgewater Canal Terminus, Castlefield ... 72 Chorlton Eoad Congregational Chapel 13 Canal Street and part of MinshuU Street Police Coujt 73 Cavendish Street Congregational Chapel 16 Steam Navvy Excavating 75 Broughton Park Congregational Chapel 17 Shipping on the Irwell at New Bailey Bridge 76 Moss Side Baptist Chapel 18 Daniel Adamson 77 Rev. Alex. McLaren, D.D 19 Thomas Andrew Walker ... 77 Baptist Theological College, Brighton Grove 20 Lord Egerton of Tattou 77 Brunswick Street Presbyterian Church 20 Sir B. Leader Williams 77 Friends' Meeting-house, Mount Street 21 Bastham Locks : Entrance to Ship Canal—Looking Out- The Greek Church, Higher Broughtou 23 wards 79 Boys' Refuge, Strangeways 2i The Ship Canal under Runcorn Bridge 80 The Star Hall, Ancoats 25 High Level Railway Bridge at Latchford 81 Carving from the Pulpit of Cross Street Chapel 27 The Old Barton Aqueduct. (Now Destroyed.) 81 Porch of the Literary and Philosophical Society 28 Barton Swing Aqueduct 84 Dr. J. P. Joule 29 Loading in Pomona Dock, Manchester 85 Statue of Dalton : Iniimiary Flags 33 Opening of the Ship Canal by the Queen, May 21, 1894 88 The Gentlemen's Concert Hall, Peter Street 36 Plan of the Manchester and Salford Docks 89 The Interior : The Gentlemen's Concert Hall 37 Sir Anthony Marshall, First Lord Mayor of Manchester 90 Sir Charles Halle 39 Dredger at Work 92 Flower Show at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Old Trafford 40 Map of Manchester and Salford 93 "Hot'Taters" 43 Map of the Manchester Ship Canal 95 "Blind" 43 Arms of Salford Hundred 96 Saturday Afternoon in Town 44 Manchester, from Exchange Station, Salford 97 St. James's Hall, Oxford Street 45 Salford Cross 99 A Saturday Popular : St. James's Hall 48 Old Houses, Chapel Street, Salford 99 The Old Queen's Theatre, 1805. (The "Minor") 49 The Cattle Market, Cross Lane, Salford 100 The Palace of Varieties, Oxford Street 63 J. Maghull Yates, Q.C., Recorder of Salford 101 The Theatre Royal 56 Flat Iron Market, Salford 101 Rt. Hon. Jacob Bright, M.P 57 The Old Bull's Head, Greengate, Salford 102 Schwann, Charles B. M.P 57 Lower Broughton, from the Crescent, Salford 104 Houldsworth, M.P Sir W. H. 57 Edward Ryley Langworthy 105 the Procession Waiting for 58 William Lookett 105 . vni MANCHESTER OLD AND NEW. PAGE PAOE Thomas Agnew 105 Denton Chapel 120 Back to Back Houses, Salford . 107 Map of the Environs of Manchester .. 121 Salford Foot Barracks, Regent Road, and Free Library 108 Elephant Riders at Belle Vue Gardens 123 The Town Hall, Salford 109 In Belle Vue Gardens 124 The Hope Hospital, Eooles Old Road, from the Railway 112 Clayton Old Hall 125 Sir W. H. Bailey 112 Ordsall Old Hall 128 KersalCell 113 Blackley : A Ragged School Trip to Boggart Hole Entrance to the Museum, Peel Park 115 Clough 129 Victoria Gates, Peel Park 116 Hough End Hall 132 William Mather, M.P 117 The Deaf and Dumb, and Blind Asylums, Old TrafEord 133 H. J. Roby, M.P 117 The Crumpsall Workhouse, from Harpurhey Cemetery 136 W. H. Holland, M.P 117 Northenden .. 137 Benjamin Armitage, J.P. 117 Marple Hall 140 SirH. H. Howorth, M.P. 117 Worsley Dam and Aviary 141 Statue of Brotherton, Peel Park 118 Wardley Old Hall 143 TTrmston Hall 119 The Industrial Schools, Swinton 144 LIST OF FULL-PAGE PLATES. Church Pahade, Whitwoeth Pake, and Union Chapel Beoad Street, Pendleton Chebtham Hill Road : the Jews' Synagogue and St. Chad's The Art Gallery, Mosley Street, and the Athen.;eum The City Art Gallery, Mosley Street—Interior Peter Street : Y.M.C.A., Theatre Royal, Free Trade Hall, and Comedy Theatre Trafford Wharf and Salford Docks Steamer Passing Traffoed Swing Bridge The Royal Hospital, Salford Salford Railway Station, New Bailey Street The County Cricket Ground, Old Tbafford ... Albert Neilson Hornby Alderley Edge : A Picnic Clifton Hall Collibet — ST. THOMAS'S CHUECH, AND TOWN HALL, PENDLETON. CHAPTER YII. CHURCH AND CHAPEL {continued). The Primitive Methodists—United Methodist Free Church—Dr. Warren—The Welsh Calvinists—Free-Lanoe Mission Chapels Independent Methodists—Bible Christians—Bryanites—Salvation Army—Dissent in Manchester—Cross Street Chapel A Stronghold of Unitarianism—Other Unitarian Chapels—The Labour Church—The Independents—William Eoby— Dr. Macfadyen—Dr. McAU—John Cassell—Rusholme and Broughton Park—The Baptists—Union McLaren—The Presbyterians—Jew, Greek, and Proselyte. HE Primitive Methodists, as an offshoot from. Methodism, are younger than the New Connexion, though one might suppose the opposite from the name they give themselves. In some unexplained way they claim to be regarded as not properly an offshoot from Methodism at all.