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Heath Street, MANCHESTER, M8 9ET

At the junction with Squire Road (obviously!).

This road leads up to the area where St. Mark's church stood before its demolition in 1998.

I can't work out what this is. It lies between Copthall Lane and Grangeforth Road. The wall on the right is the boundary of the old graveyard. In the distance, the new houses are on St. Helier's Drive. It is an area of stones like cobbles, with two circular depressions which might once have been flower-beds. These railings seem to serve no purpose. I wonder if it might be the site of some historical building, but there is no plaque near by to explain it.

Junction of St Mark's Lane and Tetlow Lane.

Parish Boundary Marker by the UC road, in parish of Salford (Salford District), Japan Street, against front wall of No 10, East side of road. Inscription reads:- : BROUGHTON : : CHEETHAM : Surveyed Milestone Society National ID: LA_BROCHE02pb

Parish Boundary Marker by the UC road, in parish of Salford (Salford District), Japan Street, between front walls of Nos 7 and 9, behind downpipe. Inscription reads:- : CHEETHAM : : BROUGHTON : Surveyed Milestone Society National ID: LA_BROCHE03pb

St. Mark's was built in 1794 and demolished in 1998. An article pre-dating the building says: "Such was the spiritual destitution of the benighted folks of Cheetham Hill, Crumpsall, and Broughton that between the ancient parish churches of Prestwich and Manchester there was neither a place for the solemnisation of divine worship nor for the interment of the dead." All that is there today is this sorry array of flattened gravestones, and a few memorials.

St. Mark's was built in 1794 and demolished in 1998. When submitting these pictures I found the outline of the church still shows on the Geograph map, which was useful as I hadn't known for sure exactly where the church stood. An article pre-dating the building says: "Such was the spiritual destitution of the benighted folks of Cheetham Hill, Crumpsall, and Broughton that between the ancient parish churches of Prestwich and Manchester there was neither a place for the solemnisation of divine worship nor for the interment of the dead." All that is left now is a lot of litter, flattened gravestones and a few battered memorials. This view is taken approaching the area along Copthall Lane, off Cheetham Hill Road.

St. Mark's was built in 1794 and demolished in 1998. An article pre-dating the building says: "Such was the spiritual destitution of the benighted folks of Cheetham Hill, Crumpsall, and Broughton that between the ancient parish churches of Prestwich and Manchester there was neither a place for the solemnisation of divine worship nor for the interment of the dead." The graveyard is now derelict, the railings shabby, the gates padlocked.

Parish Boundary Marker by the UC road, in parish of Salford (Salford District), Japan Street, ginnel behind Japan Street, against rear wall of No 1 (gate locked). To be surveyed Milestone Society National ID: LA_BROCHE10pb.