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EVENSHUL:ME is a townsh1p and village and was 4.55, 8. IS & 9.30 p.m. ; sundays, arri,,e 4.50 a.m. &. L formed into an ecclesiastical parish June 28, I 861, from dispatched at 8 p.m. Parcels post dispatched IO.Io a.m the civil parish of , with Rusholme, Gorton and & 8 p.m. Open on sundays from 8 tu ro a.m. for sale Newton detached. There are stations here on the London of stamps &c and North Western and the Great Central (M. S. & L.) PosT & M. 0. 0. & S. B. 244 road (South Levens­ railways, 3 miles south-east from Manchester and 3 north­ hulme).-Thos. Dowbiggin, sub-postmaster. Dispatches, west from Stockport, and the vilhge is on the Roman road, 8.I5, g.4o & 11.25 a.m. 1.30, 2.40, 4.30, 7.50 & g p.m.; between Manchester and Stockport, in the Stretford division sundays, 7 p. m of the county of Lancaster, Salford hundred, Chorlton union, PILLAR LETTER Box, West Point, cleared at 1.35, 3.50 & Manchester county court district. rural deanery of Ardwick 7· so p. m. ; sun days, 7.30 p.m and arch deaconry and diocese of Manchester. The township PmlT OFFIC~<;, Broom lane. -Samuel Chetharn, sub-post· is governed by an Urban District Council of 12 mdmbers, master. Letter box cleared at 8.15, 9-::;o & 11.30 a.m. constituted under the Local Government Act, 1894. The 1.50, 2.30, 4.2o, 7.40 & B.so p.m.; sundays, 6.50 p.m church of St. Peter, erected in r86o, is in the Gothic style, Postal orders are issued here but not paid. and consists of eh mcel, nave, aisles, north porch and a western tower, octagonal spire, containing a clock and one Urba.n Distrlot Council. bell, added in r86.): there is a memorial window toP. W. Hammond esq. presented by his family in 1867: and Offices, Stockport road. others to the Rev. E. C. Hore, first rector, who died in Board day, fourth Mond:1y in every month at 7.30 p.m. August, I888, and Mr. H. Nall : the church was enlarged MEMBERS. in I871 and internally improved in 1872 and again in Chairman-R. A. D. Carter esq. J.P t8g6, and will s~at 750 persons, 26o sittin:;s being free. Vice-Chairman.-T. G. Tunaley esq The register dates from the year 1854· The living is a rectory, net yearly value £450, in the gift of five trustees, Retire in 1903. and held since r88g by the Rev. George llradley Jones, of R. A. D. Carter J. P J. W. Bedford St. Aidan's. St. Andrew's, South , is an W. IIigginson I T. G. Tunaley ecclesiastical district comprising that part of the parish of Retire in 1904. Levenshnlme lying south of the line of the Great Central F. W. W. Breakell J.P I W. H. Knibbs Railway. The temporary church of St. Andrew, in Stock­ G. Paulsun J. Roberts port road, affords sittings for 300 persons, and also serves Retire in 1905. as a day and Sunday school. The living is an incumbency, T. H. Drinkwater D. H. S. Smith net yearly value £200, in the gift of the Crown and the R. Burtles Si. Whittall Bishop of Manchester alternately, and held since r 899 I ' by the Rev. Henry Hickling M.A. of St. John's College, Cle1·k-James Ogden Hardicker, Grange avenue Camoridge. There is a school church in connection with Treasurer- & Yorkshire Bank Ltd. Levenshulme St. Peter's in Barlow road, opened January, r8g4, and Medical Officer of Health-Herbert Ebenezer Edlin L.B.C.P. erected at a cost of £I, 200 ; it will seat 300, and is dedicated Lond. 4 titockport road to St. Mark. The Catholic church, in Clare road, dedi­ Surveyor-James Jepson, 8 Teviot dale, Stockport cated to St. Mary of the Angels and St. Clare and built in .Sanitm-y Inspector-Hobert Hughes, 4 Dixon street 187g, will seat too persons. In the same road is a convent Collector--Cyril De-la-Wyche, tilade lane of the order of Poor Cl a res, built in 1869, for 27 inmates. The Free Methodist chapel, opened in September, r865, will seat VVEUSEEBS OF THE POOR. 400 persons, and has day schools adjoining. The Congrega­ Harrop Edward, 138 Stockport road, Levenshnlme tional church, built in r881 at a cost of .£·3,300, is a Gothic Heggs Oliver, Claremont, Alms pnrk, Levenshulme edifice of stone and brick, with a tower at the north-west angle Raeper James, Grange avenue, Levenshulme surmounted by an octagonal spire ; it will seat 500 persons; A SJ>-i.:otant Overseer_.Cyril R. De-la-Wyche, Slade lane,. the former chapel is now used as a Sunday school. The Levenshulme Meetings are held rst thursday in each month at 8 p.m. Wesleyan chapel, built in r865 at a cost of £4,CXXJ1 will seat soo; the old chapel, in Chapel street, is used for Sunday 1ehools and as a mission hall. The offices of the Urban Registrar of Births rf .Deaths-Thomas E. Hallswortb, 4 District Council were erected in r8g8, m Stockport road, Stock port road at an estimated cost of about £],CXXJ. Here are the calico County Police Station-James John Gill, sergeant-in-charge; printing works of Messrs. Boyd & Co. ; wire mattresses and & 9 constables machine tools are also made here. The township contains Convent, Poor Clares, Clare road, Alma road ; Miss Mary many modern residences. There is no lord of the manor. The B. Sheridan, abbess principal landowners are Mrs. Grimshaw, the Dean and Places of Worship, with times of services. Canons of Manchester, Thomas Willia.m Rostron esq. l.P. of Port Erin, Isle of Man. Nicolas Tindal-Carrill-Worsley St. Peter's, :Stockport road ; Rev. George Bradley Jones. esq. of Platt Hall, Rusholme; George Hulme esq. and rector; Rev. J. R. Halsall, curate; sunday, 10.30 a.m. & Edward Greaves esq. The population of the township 6.30 p.m.; holy communion rst sunday in month at in 1871 was :o~,742; in 188r was 3,557, and in x8gx, 5,5o6; morning service, :lnd at 8.3oa.m. 3rd at morning service. now ( 1902) 13, soo; the acreage of the township and ecclesi­ 4th evening service, wed. 7·45 p.m &Btical parish is 6o6 acres; rateable value, urban district, St. Mark's, Barlow road, served from St. Peter's, 6.30 p.m. ; £52,(>78; town!!hip, £57o945· holy communion ISt sunday at evening service, 3rd snn­ ..tl.pParitm· Thomas Warrington, 20 Ballaratt street. day at 8 a. m St• .Andrew's, Stockport road (South Levenshulme); Rev. PosT, Parcel, M. 0., T. 0., S. B. & Express Delivery Office. Henry Hickling M. A. incumbent; sunday, 10.30 a.. m & 103 Stockport road.-Percy McKenzie Howard, sub-post­ 6.30 p.m.; holy communion zst snnday in month at master. Letters through Manchester, arrive at 6.10 a.w. mid-day, 2nd at 8 a.m. 4th, 6.30 p.m.; week-day Ia.I0,3.IO & 5.50 p.m. ; dispatched at g.o, 10.20 a.m. 2. 5, services wednesday 7·45 p.m