Wood Street Children's Mission, Manchester
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Wood Street Children's Mission, Manchester
Image: © Tricia Neal Taken: 9 May 2012
A full history of the charity can be found on their website: http://www.woodstreetmission.org.uk/Who-we-are/History.aspx Briefly, Alfred Alsop founded the Mission in 1869 to help the children of Manchester's slums. They distributed clothing, opened a soup kitchen, provided Christmas presents, organised holidays etc. etc. Wood Street is a very narrow street at the side of the John Rylands Library on Deansgate. The charity is still very active today.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.480621
Longitude
-2.249642