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Durling Street, MANCHESTER, M12 6FS

I believe the building on Higher Ardwick was originally the Primitive Methodist Sunday School.

For some years it was open as the New Gaelic Club.

A glacial erratic placed at the east end of Ardwick Green, which lies beside the A6 to London, a few minutes walk from Manchester Piccadilly station. It appears to be green slate from the Lake District. Ardwick Green was laid out in the latter half of the 18th century as an ornamental park with smart houses and a Georgian church beside it (the church and some Georgian houses survive as offices and some of the park railings are original). There was at this time a long narrow ornamental lake and it is possible the erratic came from the excavations for this lake. The native underlying rock in this part of Manchester is a red sandstone, as can be seen in canal cuttings and along the banks of the River Medlock. Another Lake District erratic close to the centre of Manchester is placed in the main quadrangle of the University of Manchester, Oxford Road and there is a geograph for it at SJ8496. A recent review of the evidence of the last glaciation to affect Northwest England would suggest this erratic was probably deposited in this area between 25,000 and 19,000 years ago. The review can be found here: www.mangeogsoc.org.uk/pdfs/delaney2.pdf

The glacial boulder at the southern end of the gardens, is a remnant of the ice age. Little is known of how it came to be placed in the gardens, or when, but pictures from the early 1900s show that it was present at that time.

#4 Higher Ardwick is a Grade II listed https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1218685?section=official-list-entry town house probably later C18 with earlier C19 alterations and additions. I photographed it 2012 Image and at the time discovered that it had been used as a residential care home http://web.archive.org/web/20170222030720/http://www.uk-carehomes.co.uk/manchester-care-homes-6858.php and as "soul food" takeaway by Soul Food (M/Cr) Ltd who were founded in 2004 and had its registered office at Fenton House. It last filed company accounts in 2006 and was dissolved in 2009. Urban explorers visted the site in May 2022: https://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/threads/fenton-house-manchester-05-22.38683/ It is presently undergoing restoration by Creative Studios https://www.createitstudios.co.uk/fenton-house having survived a fire that gutted properties to the rear of it n 2018.

Looking from the centre of the park past a bed of daffodils towards the children's play area.

This glacial erratic Image at the east end of Ardwick Green Park has been in situ for over 100 years. It appears to be comprised of green slate from the Lake District.

Fenton House on Higher Ardwick is a Grade II listed town house http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-388187-fenton-house- which at the time of listing (1994) had been converted into a hotel. It seems to have been used in recent years as residential care home http://www.uk-carehomes.co.uk/manchester-care-homes-6858.php and a "soul food" takeaway. Soul Food (M/Cr) Ltd was founded in 2004 and had its registered office at Fenton House. It last filed company accounts in 2006 and was dissolved in 2009.

A George V postbox (M12 78) outside the Church Inn Image on Ardwick Green North Image