IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Dunham Road, ALTRINCHAM, WA14 4AJ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Dunham Road, WA14 4AJ by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (217 Images Found)
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Loreto Convent, Bowdon
Ahead, in the photo, is the original building that housed both nuns and pupils in the early days. As time went by, the school expanded on the site until the Prep. School - which had taken both Catholic girls and boys up to the age of eight - was split off and moved to new premises further down Dunham Road.
In the 1950s, boys completing their Preparatory schooling here moved to the likes of St Ambrose, Hale Barns, to continue their education.
Several years ago, one of the teaching nuns from that era - Sister John Baptist - reached her 100th birthday, which was celebrated with a Mass at nearby St Vincent's church. Some of her old pupils present were of retirement age!
Image: © Anthony O'Neil
Taken: 7 Nov 2013
0.05 miles
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Sheep in Sylvan Grove
This house was built by the Countess of the Dunham Estate for her Estate Manager in 1900. Typical Victorian neo-Tudor
Image: © michael hartley
Taken: 7 Aug 2005
0.05 miles
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School sign in Altrincham
Like its fellow boys' Catholic grammar school in Hale Barns, Loreto sets high standards, both morally and academically: it is a specialist in Mathematics. Over the years, teaching staff have become secular and the nuns have taken up residence in separate quarters nearby. The school motto - barely visible on the crest - is "Cruci dum spire fido" i.e. "While I live, I trust in the Cross" - very apt for the pupils of a Christian Faith school.
Image: © Anthony O'Neil
Taken: 7 Nov 2013
0.05 miles
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Alas, no longer!
Loreto Convent Prep School has closed
Image: © Anthony O'Neil
Taken: 7 Nov 2013
0.05 miles
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School grounds, Dunham Road
Schools in the Altrincham area often occupy former private houses or the land attached to them. Hale and Bowdon have many large mansions that lend themselves to such re-use. In the case of Loreto, here, the premises are purpose built.
Image: © Anthony O'Neil
Taken: 7 Nov 2013
0.06 miles
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Catholic girls' Prep. school
On Dunham Road, next door but one to the Convent.
Image: © Anthony O'Neil
Taken: 7 Nov 2013
0.06 miles
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St Vincent's Catholic Church, Altrincham
Reverses the trend towards minimal religious observance: hundreds attend each of the five weekend services (including many young families) and up to fifty at daily lunchtime mass. Parishioners are also active in local charity work.
There is a black & white photograph https://www.francisfrith.com/altrincham/altrincham-st-vincent-s-church-1906_55743 of St Vincent's in the Francis Frith Collection - from around 1906, when it was founded - showing the building standing in isolation with no trees and no houses to the south.
Image: © Anthony O'Neil
Taken: 4 Jul 2015
0.12 miles
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Catholic Church of St Vincent de Paul
Situated between Groby Road and Bentinck Road.
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 23 Apr 2017
0.12 miles
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St Vincent's, Altrincham
From Groby Road
Image: © Anthony O'Neil
Taken: 25 Feb 2023
0.13 miles