52 WITHINGTON, [8LATER'S Medical Officer of Health-T. C. Railton M.D. Town hall, spire and containing one bell: during the past year (1902} Lapwing lane & Plemont, 9 Moorfield rd. West Didsbury upwards of £I,ooo has been spent on the church in way Surve:yD1'-A. H. Mountain c.E. Town hall of additions and renovations, including vestries for the­ Inspect01' of New Buildings-Henry Townson clergy and choir : there are 10 stained windows and sittings Inspector of Nuisances-J. T. Shawcross for about 645 persons, 250 being free : the register date& Inspect01' of Sanitary Works-J. S. Churms from the year 1858. The living is a rectory, net yearly Inspect01' of Drainage Works-T. M. Draper • value £316, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Man­ Inspector of Hackney Carriages, Lamps if .J..shpits if chester, and held since 1900 by the Rev. William Charles Superintendent of Destructor-Joseph Smith Ford. The ecclesiastical parish of Christ Church, Barlow Moor Sewa,qe Farm Manager-John Preston road, in this township, was formed March 3, 1882, from the Road Foremmi-George :Morris civil parishes of Emmanuel, Barlow Moor, St. Paul's, Witb· Sanitary Inspector-J. T. Shawcross ington, and St. Clement's, Chorlton-cum-Hardy: the church. Clerk to School Attendance Committee for the District­ erect.ed in 1882, at a cost of £ x~,63o, is a builrling of red Albert Roberts, Town hall sanJstone, cons~sting of chancel, nave, aisles, transepts and a Director of Technical In.~ruction if Secretary of Committee tower containing 8 bells: in the chancel are three stained fD1' the JJistJ·ict-T. Harrison B.A windows : there are sittings for 6oo persons, of which 300 School Attendance Officer-F. W. Bell are free. The register dates from the year 1882. The living Hall Keeper-James Gouldbourne, Town hall is a rectory, net yearly value [36o, w1th residence, in the gift Collectors-Edward Chorlton Tomlinson, 5 Parsonage road, of trustees, and held since 1882 by the Rev. Walter Thompson, Withington & James H. Norris, 89 Wilmslow rd. Didsbury of St. Aidan's, and surrogate. St. Mary's chapel of ease, ia Palatine road, in connection with this parish, has I sitting~> Public Hall & Library, Burton road-Michael Small, for 450 persons, and there is also a mission church in Burton librarian; W. H. Stracy, hon. sec road. The W esleyan Theological Institution, opened in Southern Cemetery, Barlow :Moor road-Albert Jarrett, 1842, is for the training of students for the ministry of that registrar; William Leigh, sexton denomination: the buildings are substantial, and have an Chorlton Union Workhouse, Nell lane-Joseph Firth, ornamental stone front, with wings, forming a large master; hospital staff, James Stewart Orchard M.D. ; quadrangle: the central portion is occupied by the gover­ J. W. Smith F.R.c.s.Eng. visiting surgeon; H. M. nor's residence, and attached are lecture rooms, library, Williamson M.B., ch.B.vict. & Philip H. Green M.B.,ch.B. dining hall, studies and dormitories: detached from the vict. resident assistant medical officers; Edward Roberts main building are the library and lecture hall, in the Early M.R.C.s.Eng. ophthalmic surgeon; John Stephenson English style ; and on either side are the residences of the L. n.s.Eng. dentist ; Mrs. C. Firth, matron ; .Miss Mary professors : the building is arranged for 68 students. The Rawson, superintendent of nurses grounds cover about 10 acres. Adjacent is a Wesleyan Sohools. chapel, in the Gothic style, with tower and spire, erected a~t a memorial to James Heald esq J.P. of Parr's Wood, National (mixed), Wilmslow road, erected in 1844. en­ Didsbury, at a cost of over £2o,ooo, by his late sister and: larged in 1868 & again in 1877, & rebuilt in 1897 for nephew. There are also Presbyterian, Primitive :Methodist 584 children ; average attendance, 4'18 ; Thomas H. and Baptist chapels. The charities amount to £25 yearly, Scholes, head master ; Miss Harriet Francis, mistress distributed in kind. The recreation ground, in Wilmslow Catholic (St. Cuthbert) in Palatine road (mixed), built in road, covers an area of 5 acres. The trustees of the late­ 18g1, for wo children; average attendance, 83 ; Miss Sir Ed ward William Watkin bart. J". P. of N orthenden, M. Henry, mistress; Miss Ada t:;ynan, assistant mistress Cheshire (d. 1901); the Exors. of the late Samuel Yates Railway Station. esq. J.P. of the Headlands, Didsbury (d. 1901); the Countess­ (Withington & Albert Park), Midland Railway, Lapwing of Dundonald, of Gwrych Castle, Abergele, N. Wales, and lane, Withington-James Gaze, station master William Norris Heald esq. J.P. of Southport, are chief land­ owners. The soil is gravel on sand. The chief crops are Conveya.nce. wheat, oats, turnips and potatoes, but a large portion of the TRAMWAYs.-Palatine road to Exchange, via Piccadilly, fre­ land is pasture, which is rich and luxuriant, being subject quently to the overflowing of the Mersey. The acreage of the OMNIBUs.-Palatine road to Cheadle, through Didsbury, township is r,553, of which 23 are water; rateable value, from 8.45 a.m. & every three-quarters of an hour to £6tl,562 ; the population in 1901 was 9,234· 8.45 p.m. ; & leave Cheadle at 8.10 a. m. & every Parish Clerk, Didsbury, J onathan Booth, I Mill gate lane, three-quarters of an hour to 8.55 p.m. ; from Withington Didsbury. station to Northenden & from tram terminus frequently PosT, M. 0. & T. 0. & S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Wellington road.-George Edward Scott, postmaster. DIDSBURY is a township in the parish of Manchester Letters through Manchester are received at 5-40 & II.3C>­ and was constituted a district pansh under the Manchester a.m. & 2.30 & 5·4'S p.m.; dispatched at 8.25, ro & 11.45- Rectory Division Act, March 29, 1839, and re-formed June a.m & 2.10, 4·45, 8.10 & 9.50 p.m.; sundays, 8.10 p.m.; 16, 1854; it has a station on the Midland railway, 3 miles parcels, 10 a. m. & 8 p.m west from Stockport, 5 south from Manchester and ~~ from SuB-PosT, l\L U. & T. 0. & S. B. & Annuity & Insurance­ Cheadle, and is in the Stretford division of the county, Office, 92 ilarlow Moor road.-John Tripp, sub-postmaster. Salford hundred, Chorlton-on-Medlock union; and from its Letters dispatched at 5· 45, 8, 10 & I I.35 a.m. & 2, 4-40, pleasant and healthy situation and contiguity to l\'Ianchester 8.20 & 9.40 p.m. ; sundays, 8.30 p.m is adopted as a place of residence by merchants and wealthy ALBERT PARK S-c:B-PosT, M. 0. & T. 0. & S. R &'Annuity & families. The church of St. J ames, originally erected about Insurance Office, Burton road, West Ddsbury.-James> 1::135, and made parochial in 1854, is now a building of red Stokes, sub-postmaster. Letters through Manchester sandstone in the Early English and later styles, consisting of are dispatched at 5-45,'~8-3o, w & II.SO a. m. & 2.15, 5.3o, chancel, nave, porch, and a western tower containing 6 bells, 8.25 & 9.50 p.m. ; delivered 6.45 & 12 nootl & 2.45 & 6- hung in 1727: all the windows are stained, and there are p.m. sundays, dispatched at 8.30 p.m monuments to Sir Nicholas Mosley, 1612 ; to Rowland LETTER BoxEs-Burton road; Clyde road; Fog lane Mosley esq. his son and heir; to Sir Edward Mosley kt. WALL BoxEs-Hesketh street; Railway station, Wilmslow­ attorney-general of the Duchy of Lancaster ; to Ann, daughter road ; Barlow Moor road; The Beeches & Railway station, and sole heiress of Sir Edward Mosley, of Hulme, kt. and Albert park & Old Didsbury ; Parkticld road; topl ofJFog wife of Sir John Bland bart. of Kippax Park, in the county lane & School lane of York, with others to tills family, and the families of l<'ielden and Briarley: the church was restored in 1855 and WESLEYAN THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. x862, and during the period 1874-81 a new vestry was built Wilmslow road, Didsbury. and other improvements made at a cost of £1,500, and Governor, Rev. John S. Simon. further improvements made in 1895-6 at a cost of £2,500; TuToRs. the communion plate dates from the beginning of the 18th Systematic Theology, Rev. R. Waddy l\Ioss D.D. century: there are 537 sittings, 300 being freo. The register Pastoral Theology & Church Organisation, Rev. John dates from the year 1561. The living is a rectory, yearly Si m on value £270, with residence, in the gift of William Norris Biblical Literature & Exegesis, Rev. William F, Slater K.A Ileald esq. J.P. and held since 1894 by the Rev. Edward Classics & Mathematics, Rev. James Hope Moulton M.A.,D.L~ Abbey Tindall M. A. of Gonville and Caius College, Cam­ ScHOOL8-S- bridge. Didsbury Endowed National, founded about 168o & rebuilt BARLOW MooR, in this township, is an ecclesiastical in 188o; the endowment, amounting to £30 yearly, was­ parish, formed May 16, I86o, wholly from the parish of St. bestowed by the Mosley family ; the trustees are Jam~ James. Emmanuel church, in Harlow Moor road, erected Heald esq. G. H. Gaddum esq. !<'!etcher Moss esq. &.. in x8s8, is a building of grey stone in the Gothic style, con­ A. G. Roby esq. The school will now bold 6oo children~ sisting of chancel with south aisle, nave, aisles, south transept, average attendance, soo; George Ball, master; Miss Mary northern porch, and a small turret on the western gable with Jane Walsh, mistress; Miss H.