•• DIRECTORY.J HEATON MOOR, , &c. XXVll governed by an Urban District Council, but in 1901 the P03T & M. O. Office, 539 Gorton road, .­ Council was dissolved and the township added to the Mrs. Margaret H. Buckley, sub-postmistress. Letters Borough of : it has stations on the London and are dispatehei at 9.45 & 11.45 a.m. & 8 p.m. ; sundays, North Western and the Great Central and Midland joint rail­ 8 p.m ways, and is in the Stretford division of , :Stockport POST, M. O. & T. Offic:e (), 24 Reddish road. union and county court district, , rural dean­ -Miss Ellen McClennan, sub-postmistress. Letters are ery of Ardwick and archdeaconry and diocese of . delivered from Stockport & are dispatched 8 & 10 a.m. & The Manchester and Stockport canal passes through the 12.30, 2.3°, 5.15, 7.45 & 9.15 p.m.; parcel collection township. The church of St. Mary, opened in August, 1864. 6.45 p.m. daily; sun. 8.45 p.m is a building- of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, "aV<3. srtut.h porch and a turret containing one ball: WALL I LETTER Box, corner of Greg & Hibbert streets, a new vestry was added in 1895 at a cost of £45°: tac east cleared at 8 & 11.45 a.m. ; 4 & 7.45 p.m. ; sun. 8.10 p. m window is stained and there are 400 sittings, 154 being POST &; M. O. Office, 416 Gorton road, North Reddish.­ free. The register dates from the year 1864. The living Harry l\lassey, sub-postmaster. Letters are dispatclled is a rectory, net yearly value £300, with residence, in the at 9.55 & 1I.50 a.m. & 8.10 p.m.; sunday, 8 p.m gift of five trustees, and held since 1891 by the Rev. Frank Harrison M.A. of Queen's College~ Oxford. WALL LETTE& Box, 184 Gorton road, cleared 10 a.m. & 12 noon & 8. IS p.m. ; sunday 8 p.m . St. Elisabeth's is an ecclesia.stical parish, formed in 1884 from the parishes of St. Mary, Heaton Reddish, and St. PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of services:- Thomas, Heaton Noms: the church, erected in 1883, at a St. Mary's, Reddish rd-Rev. Frank Harrison M.A. rector; cost of about £30,000, entirely defrayed by Sir William sun. 8 & IQ.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; 1st sunday in month Henry Houldsworth bart. J.P. is an edifice of brick and stone, 3 p.m.; mono wed. & fri. 10 a.m,; holy communion in the Norman style, consisting of chancel with apsidal every sunday at 8 or IQ.30 a.m morning chapel on the slJuth side, clerestoried nave of four St. Elisabeth's, Liverpool street---Rev. F. Rothwell Dean bxys, aisles, south porch, organ chamber, vestries and a M.A. rector; H.ev. John Hutton Clarke, M.SC. curate; sun. tower on the south side II3 feet in height, containing 8 bells, 7.30,9.30& 10.30 a.m. &.2.15 &; 6.30 p.m. ; daily at 9.30 hung in 1897; most of the windows are stained: the a.m.; holy days 7 & 9.30 a.m. ; wed. 7.30 p.m. & screen and reredos are of alabaster, the latter being inlaid thur. 10 a.m "' with gold: the church affords 700 sittings. The register St. Agnes, Gorton road-Rev. Spencer James Gibb, rector ;­ of baptisms dates from 4 Jan. 1874 ; marriages from 1884. II a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; wed. 7.30 p.m The li"ing is a rectory, net yearly value £300, with St. Joseph's (Catholic),Gorton road-Rev. Charles McDer­ residence, in the gift of Sir W. H. Houldsworth bart. and mott Roe; sun. 8,30 & IQ.30 a.m. & 6.)0 p.m.; daily held since 1906 by the Rev. Frederick Rothwell Dean M.A. 7.30 a.m of Downing College, Cambridge. Wesleyan, BroaLlstone road-Ministers from Stockport St. Agnes is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1902 out of circuit; sun. 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; thurs. fortnightly the parishes of St. Elisabeth, St. J ames', GOI'IOn, Christ 7.30 p.m Church, Denton, and St. George, Abbey Hey: the church, in Congre.;ational, BroadstOlte road-IOA5 a.m. & 6.30 p.m G orton road, erected in 1908, is an edlfiC'e of red brick, consisting of chancel, three bays of the nave and a morning chapel and has one bell: there are sittings for 500 PUBLIC ELEME:'ilTARY SCHOOLS. persons. The living is a ractory, ye'1rly value £300, in the (Under the control of the StockportEducation Committee.) gift of the Crown and the Bishop of Manchester alternately, and held since 1902 by the Rev. Spencer James Gibb. St. Mary's (Church of ), Greg street, built in 1863 The Catholic church, dedicated to St. Joseph, built at the & enlarged in 1898 for 338 cllildren; average aLtendance, 260; Enoch Edge, head master; Mrs. Mary Jane sole cost of Joseph Higginson esq. and consecrated December HigginbOLham, infants' mistress 2~th, 1882, is an edifice of brick with stone dressings in the Early Decorated style, from the designs of the late Mr. The "Houldsworth," Liverpool street (mixed & Herbert E. Tijou, architect, of Manchester, and consists 91 a infants), established in 18]1 & in 1898 enlarged; chancel, lady chapel on the north side, nave, a sacristy, average attendalll.:e, S~o mixed children & 182 infants; vcstry, south porch and a bell-cote containing one bell: the John Hall, master; MUll! Kenyon, infants' mistress chancel has a very fine altar with tabernacle and throne, St. Joseph's (Catholic), Gorton road, built in 1883, for 180 and a sculptured panel of the death of St. Joseph; in the children (mixed & infants) ; average attendance, 155 ; Miss Lady Chapel is a representation of the mystery of the Elizabeth O'Connell, mistress; Miss Mary Agnes O'Brien, Annunciation: the carved pUlpit and font are of Caen stone, infants' mistress alabaster and marble; the latter stands within a bd.ptiMtery South Reddish Council (mixed), Reddish road, South protected by an iron screen with gates: the chllfch affords Reddisb, built in 183], for 520 children; average atten­ 300 sittings. danlle, 420: Charles Henry Uhivel's, he,;.d master; Miss There is a Wesleyan chapel in Broadstone road. Prescott's Elizabetn Rayner, infants' mistress almshouses are for six poor women, each of whom receives a weekly allowance of four shillings. Willow Grove cemetery, south of the township, is private property: it C8vers I]acres Reddish Conservative Club Ltd. Gorton road-Fred Turner, and contains three mortuary chapels. There are several sec.; Smith Crowther Holdsworth, steward cotton spinning and doubling mills, calico printing works, Reddish Branch, Stockport Fire Brigade, Gorton road- and roperies. There is no lord of the manor. The area of James McGuire and Thomas Swindells, in charge the township is 1,550 acres; rateable value £69,600 and Police Station, Gorton rOdod-Luke Feeney, serged.nt &; 3 men population 19IQ (estimated) 13,800. The prinCipal land­ ownel)! are the Hon. Henry John Coke, of LOllgrord Hall, Cemetery-John Clarke, registrar Derby, the Earl of Wilton, and the trustees of the late H. RAILWAY STATIONS :- R. Greg esq. London &; North Western-John Spa-nn, station master POST, M. O. & T. Office, 6 Gorton road.-Reuben G. Great Central & Midland Jomt-William Glassby Robin80n, sub-postmaster. Letters are deliverei at 7 a.m. & 2.15 & 5.10 p.m.; dispatched, 10. TO a.m. & 12.20, CARRIERS TO MANcHEsTER.-Joseph I"ord, 123 Gorton roa,1, 7 & 8.40 p.m.; sundays, 8.30 p.m Ill; James Thompson, Laming-ton road, daily