Didsbury Old Parsonage: Eagle Gate
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Didsbury Old Parsonage: Eagle Gate
Image: © Gerald England Taken: 17 Feb 2017
According to the Didsbury Parsonage Trust's website http://www.didsburyparsonagetrust.org.uk/history/4581874368 " The Eagle Gate on Stenner Lane was bought by Fletcher Moss for £10 when the Spread Eagle pub in Corporation Street was being demolished. It cost Fletcher Moss £80 to erect it on site." The Fletcher Moss Gardens website http://www.fletchermossgardens.org.uk/index.php?id=history-of-fletcher-moss-park-and-gardens says "The entrance to the garden is marked by a striking neo-Norman stone arched gate which is topped by the sculpture of an eagle (hence "the Eagle Gate"). This was rescued by Fletcher Moss from the demolition of the Spread Eagle Hotel, of which he was a proprietor, in Corporation Street in 1902." Alderman Moss bequeathed the house and gardens to the City of Manchester on his death in 1919. Image
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Image Location
Latitude
53.410368
Longitude
-2.231178