Cartlidge House, Hartshill Road, Oakengates
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Cartlidge House, Hartshill Road, Oakengates
Image: © Gordon Cragg Taken: 31 Jan 2009
This residential Old People's Home was built in 1975 and dedicated to The Rev Cartlidge, the local parish priest. He was a driving force behind the international volunteer labour scheme that, in the late nineteen-thirties, cleared the enormous slag heap, The Charlton Mound, that was on this site.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.694817
Longitude
-2.454796