Geoff Wellens is organising a Middleton Historical Research Group to compile the history of the town. The first meeting is at the Olde Boar’s Head P.H. at 2.00PM on Saturday 9th January 2016. All are welcome…
Mancunian Province?
An interesting piece written by Jonathan Schofield highlighting the differences between the monolithic Manchester and it’s “provinces”. Middleton and Edgar Wood are mentioned too! https://www.manchesterconfidential.co.uk/news/manchester-today-state-of-the-city_29-12-2015_12-07-08#.VobK7xB9lNg.facebook…
Middleton Warwick Mill to become new trading hub between China and Manchester
Manchester Evening News Article HERE Chinese Article HERE Twitter post HERE…
Crusader Works listed mill complex is sold to a developer for £25m renovation. The listed mill and artists complex on Chapeltown Street behind Picadilly Station is to be developed. MEN Story HERE.
Photo:www.geograph.org.uk
SIGN PETITION TO SAVE COTTON MILL HERITAGE
SIGN THE PETITION to save two monuments of Lancashire’s cotton and wool industries. In a knee-jerk response to government cuts, Lancashire Council is closing every museum, library and country park that it can. Included are Helmshore Mills Museum, Rossendale and Queen Street Mill Museum, Burnley, two of the finest industrial heritage museums in the world…
Middleton Archaeological Society have obtained funding from the Middleton Township Heritage Initiative to have the timbers at the Olde Boar’s Head P.H. dated……… Click here for the rest of the post.
An Edgar Wood Watercolour Comes Home
A painting by Edgar Wood comes home after 108 years. Joan now living in Seattle, bought the painting in Washington State in 1970 when she was a student. Now down sizing, Joan wanted to find a good home for the artwork and doing a search on Edgar Wood came across our web site, got in…
Campaigners ‘ecstatic’ over purchase of London Road Fire Station
The developer of Old Granada Studios and Spinningfields is believed to have been selected as the buyer for the Grade II listed building. REPORT AND PHOTOS HERE…
A taste of Greater Manchester’s II* graded pubs…
Manchester loves a pint, but how about drinking in a part of the region’s history in a pub on the heritage list, too? Greater Manchester is home to many buildings with listed status but no pubs make the highest Grade I status and only three current pubs make the second highest Grade II* according to…
Judge says Ordsall Chord can go ahead despite appeal over heritage
Appeal against decision to link Piccadilly and Victoria stations is thrown out despite concerns of damage to city’s railway heritage. REPORT AND IMAGES HERE…
Church House/Grapes Inn Excavation – photos uploaded
Middleton Archaeology Society has just uploaded a set of photos from the September Golden Cluster Month excavation. You can see them HERE…
Manchester Victoria station officially reopens after £44m overhaul
Train passengers will celebrate another milestone in the city’s railway revolution today as Victoria station is formally reopened to the public. Network Rail officially relaunched the hub, with its futuristic new ‘bubble roof’, after a project which has seen large swathes of it almost completely rebuilt. REPORT AND PHOTOS …
The Gates Close on another Golden Cluster Month
Volunteers Maureen and Alan close the gates at the end of the final day of Golden Cluster Month at the Arts and Crafts Church (Long Street Methodist Church and School). Over 300 visitors came from throughout the local area and the wider region. One couple travelled from Maghull, having picked up a leaflet at Ellesmere…
NEWS AWAKENING – SEPTEMBER’S PRESS STORIES
Here is a miscellany of the heritage news for September… Greater Manchester Middleton Time Team dig at St Leonard’s Square Heritage Open Day: Long Street Methodist Church Middleton in step for more beautiful walkways £50m plans submitted to convert Warwick Mill, Middleton St John the Baptist Church, Rochdale upgraded to Grade II* Future vision built…
The Fisherman’s Room in Middleton’s Ye Olde Boar’s Head P.H. was used a setting in Midwinter of the Spirit, a new ITV three part drama starting 23rd September.
Wilson Potter – Heritage Open Day Soirée
There was a great turn out to Wilson Potter’s Heritage Open Day soirée. People relaxed and savoured the moment in Edgar Wood’s Long Street School Hall, aka Middleton Edgar Wood Centre. It was a joint event where real ale and heritage aficionados mingled and enjoyed one another’s company…
Heritage Open Days gets the Mayoral Treatment!
Heritage Open Days got off to a busy start on Friday 11th September with over 45 visitors to the Arts & Crafts Church and Edgar Wood Centre, just one of the four Middleton Golden Cluster buildings open. Mr. and Mrs. Wild walked from Norden (most of the way) to visit the buildings! Nick Baker, Edgar…
Arts & Crafts Exhibition almost finished
Returning from holiday in Finland, Nick Baker, curator for Arts and Crafts Awakening project, has just a couple of days to finish the new exhibition at Middleton Edgar Wood Centre. Called, ‘Middleton’s Arts & Crafts ‘Trinity’ and The Northern Art Workers Guild’, it’s looking pretty good already, as these photos show. The exhibition formally opens…
The Inspector Calls
Barry Noble the Quality Assurance Assessor for ‘Visit England’, made his unannounced inspection visit this afternoon. Maureen, a guide for the afternoon, at the Arts and Crafts Church impressed Barry with her knowledge and friendliness. He was complimentary about the visitor experience and made a few helpful suggestions as to how we could improve. We…
