IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Booth Road, ALTRINCHAM, WA14 4AU
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Booth Road, WA14 4AU 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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Notes
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Image Listing (47 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
0.10 miles
3
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
0.11 miles
4
North Cestrian Grammar School: Staff Room
The photograph was taken by the contributor’s father, Geoffrey William Sutcliffe (1907-2004), who was a teacher at the school.
Image: © Geoffrey William Sutcliffe
Taken: 1 Jan 1977
0.13 miles
5
North Cestrian Grammar School: Library
The photograph was taken by the contributor’s father, Geoffrey William Sutcliffe (1907-2004), who was a teacher at the school.
Image: © Geoffrey William Sutcliffe
Taken: 1 Jan 1977
0.13 miles
6
North Cestrian Grammar School: Chemistry Lab
The photograph was taken by the contributor’s father, Geoffrey William Sutcliffe (1907-2004), who was a chemistry teacher at the school.
Image: © Geoffrey William Sutcliffe
Taken: 1 Jan 1977
0.13 miles
7
St Margaret's Church, Bowdon, Cheshire
Image: © Anthony O'Neil
Taken: 28 Mar 2011
0.14 miles
9
North Cestrian Grammar School
Built as a private house, 'Fernlea' in 1872 and extended in 1908. In 1914 the house was purchased by the Belgian government and used as the Belgian Consulate. It was then sold to the Co-Op in 1925 and used as a welfare centre.
Mr Walter Hamblin, who had been headmaster of Altrincham Grammar School for Boys until his retirement in 1950, rented a room in Fernlea to use as a classroom and in 1951 North Cestrian Grammar School opened with 26 pupils. In 1958, the school purchased the building from the Co-op. Since then it has expanded with new buildings added.
The photograph was taken by the contributor’s father, Geoffrey William Sutcliffe (1907-2004), who was a teacher at the school.
Image: © Geoffrey William Sutcliffe
Taken: 1 Jan 1977
0.14 miles
10
St Margaret's Church
St Margaret's Church in Bowden.
Image: © Peter McDermott
Taken: 5 May 2017
0.15 miles