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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Lancashire => Topic started by: mayday on Sunday 21 October 07 16:09 BST (UK)
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hi
does anyone remember the congregational church,browley rd,wythenshawe. It was a old hut I believe .If anyone has any info,photos etc I would love to hear from you ;)
Mayday
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Mayday - I have no knowledge of this church. This appears to be the current URC church in the area
http://www.breadbreakers.co.uk/index.html
There is also a church at Brownley Green
http://www.brownleygreenbaptist.org.uk/
The only church now on Brownley Raod seems to be St Lukes C of E
There's a good local history website for the area at
http://www.wythit.com/Wythit/Local_Activities/Local_History/
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Hi Mayday,
Vaguely remember it having been to school out there 1965-72. Have a look at
www.images.manchester.gov.uk (http://www.images.manchester.gov.uk)
And type Brownley Road church into search box. Quite a few churches there but doesn't specifically say congregational. Definitely at least one hut like structure.
Also just Brownley road search produces 85 shots including those above but give some general views in which you might be able to spot it.
Best wishes
Tony
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hi mayday
i live in wythenshawe
i believe the church you are referring to has
closed down and the land put up for sale
hope this helps
berni
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hi
Thanks to everyone who has replied. Ive got some good info and will definetly follow this up. I was brought up in Wythenshawe until around 12years old. My mum remembers the church when she was a child. :D
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I beleive the church hut was the Conregational (the Conga as we used to call it) Although I was RC I was sent to Sunday school here (1952?) and used to sing "you in your small corner and me in mine" and Jesus wants me foor a sunbeam" (Some sunbeam I turned out to be!)
regards
Chris Bowden
I remember seeing a picture of the church hut in a book called Wythenshawe looking back? by Sheila Clarke and a co author. If this is of interest I will try and locate more details
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Hi,
I have this book on Wythenshawe, the picture is of a Hut, but on Hollyhedge Rd, Hollyhedge Farm Church. The picture shows the Dutch type houses next to it, I know those types of houses were on Brownley Rd, but on the side of the Old Benchill Hotel (now gone) as the houses are now gone due to Metro Link arriving and surpposedly opening in 1999????? (now believed to be 2016) I don't think the dutch types houses were on that side of the road, but I could be wrong, as the building work is forever happening!
Where the Hut stood was on Brownley Rd, and has now in the past twelve months to current day has Flats being built on it for People with disabilities to adapt.
I'm hoping I'm talking about the same one, as opposite ST Luke's church, facing Stancliffe Rd, there used to be a Hut there too.
On the Manchester Images website there is a picture of it.
http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/448/archives_and_local_studies/326/photographs
Put in search box Brownley Road,
it is pictures no.M44112.jpg no.M44121.jpg
If you click onto the picture a couple of times it enlarges!
Would be nice to know which Hut it was?
Cancan :)
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Hi the images you quote are of the Unitarian church (reatively new in 1960)oposite the Benchill Hotel. I remember the Unitarian building as a youthfull drummer with a band called Paul Fenda and the Teenbeats, we started our career there.
However the Hut on Brownley Road was the Congregational, it was on the oposite side of Brownley Road to St Lukes but further north oposite the entrance to Stancliffe Road. This is where Jesus wanted me for a sunbeam in the early 1950's!!!
Again I am sure you will find an image of it in Wythenshawe Looking Back.
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Hi,
Yes, this is the one in the book called 'Hollyhedge Farm Church'
Quote: " This was the only place for Anglican worship in Wythenshawe in 1934. The incumbant the Rev. C. Lamont, posted notices of Sunday School and Services on the door of the farm, and in a very short time the place was overun with children. It soon became obvious that a larger place was needed, and until a chruch could be built a hut costing £27.10 shillings was bought. This proved to be neither soundproof nor weatherproof.... 'the water froze in the altar vases in winter, and the candles melted over in the summer....' From 'Looking Back At Wythenshawe' by Jean Greatorex & Sheila Clarke.
Now in it's place are flats called Chigwell Close!!
If anyone would like to see the picture, PM your email address to me and I'll scan and send it to you!!!
Thanks for correcting me!!! :)
Cancan :)
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Hi can you please scan me the picture of church please,it will be interesting to see and could also include in my family tree.
Kind Regards
Jacquie
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hi
does anyone remember the congregational church,browley rd,wythenshawe. It was a old hut I believe .If anyone has any info,photos etc I would love to hear from you ;)
Mayday
I remember the church that was an old wooden hut on Brownley Rd, Benchill. I lived two doors away from it at 183 Brownley Rd. I was in the cubs there, it was pulled down in the mid to late 1950's and a new Unitarian Church built on the site. The cubs and scouts continued in the new church. The minister was called Mr Gill. I have a photograph (attached) of me in the cubs at the ceremony to dig the first sod of earth to lay the foundations. The lady digging the first sod was the caretaker of the wooden hut, I think she was called Miss Sumner?
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Hi
Thankyou so much for this info and showing the picture I can add the info to the family tree and I know mum will be interested in seeing photo. Can I use photo to put in my tree please?
kind regards
Jacquie
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Cancan.
I remember the church from when I was young, but you just jogged something in my memory when you mention freezing water. Friends of my Grandparents who moved to Wythenshawe from Hulme used to go there. He was a plumber and I remember him often doing'Plumbing Work' there.
Why I visited the place on several occassions, I've no idea, as I wasn't living in Wythenshawe at the time.
Got me thinking now, sadly there's no one left to ask.
Eric.
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Back in 1954 I visited a Congregational church-hall in Benchill a few times, to help an office pal who was a church member.
We painted backdrops for a couple of shows they were putting on; one was a play which required a wood-panelled wall behind the action on stage. The other was for a minstrel show (before such things were frowned upon) - the troupe called themselves "The Congo Minstrels". I can remember "Mr Interlocutor" sitting front centre in his top hat, a lot of corny badinage between him and "Mr Beezlebub Bones" - and lots of tambourines being rattled. All pretty harmless stuff, but in all this excitement I cannot remember the actual building at all. Maybe it was a wooden hut.
Sorry, this won't help much, but your query brought back some memories.
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The topic of the Congregational "Hut" has cropped up several times on this list. I do remember the Unitarian Chapel built opposite the Benchill Hotel. As a budding musician I was member of a local band called Paul Fender and the Teenbeats and a lifelong musical career was launched for the singer, local boy Paul Young. Sadly Paul is no longer with us but I wonder what happened to the other boys?
Returning to the Congregational "Hut", the only one I remember was further south on the opposite side to St Lukes.
regards
Chris Bowden
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Hi,
183 Brownley Road, is on the opposite side of the old Benchill Pub, the side of the Road where the pub is, is the Evens numbers.
The Congregational Church was facing Stancliffe Rd, off Brownley Road.
Cancan :)