IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Wainwright Road, ALTRINCHAM, WA14 4BS
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Wainwright Road, WA14 4BS 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.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (18 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
0.16 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
0.18 miles
6
Multiple road junction on Gorsey Lane
A well-to-do residential corner of Altrincham.
Image: © Bill Boaden
Taken: 2 May 2015
0.22 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
0.22 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
0.23 miles
9
Alas, no longer!
Loreto Convent Prep School has closed
Image: © Anthony O'Neil
Taken: 7 Nov 2013
0.23 miles
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Altrincham - Highgate Road Junction
Despite the road markings, Gorsey Lane continues from the narrow lane on the left to the road exiting mid-right, reflecting the first road here.
Image: © Peter Whatley
Taken: 31 Mar 2009
0.23 miles