Manchester Gallery

Manchester Warehousemen Orphan Schools, Cheadle Hulme

The Manchester Warehousemen Orphan Schools, on Claremont Road, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire. The school was founded in 1855 by a group of Manchester businessmen to care for and educate orphans and necessitous children'. The Claremont Road building was opened in 1869. The school is now known as Cheadle Hulme School

© Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection

Union Workhouse and Infirmary, Crumpsall, Manchester

Aerial view of the Manchester Union workhouse and infirmary at Crumpsall. At the bottom of the picture can be seen the original workhouse (later Springfield Hospital) with an entrance on the right. Above centre is the Union infirmary (later Crumpsall Infirmary). At the top left lies the originally separate Prestwich Union workhouse (later Delaunay's Hospital). The whole site later became North Manchester General Hospital

© Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection

Jamaica - Panorama of Mandeville

Slide showing a photograph over looking the city of Mandeville. Mandeville is the capital and largest town in the parish of Manchester in the county of Middlesex, Jamaica.. Part of Box 108. Boswell Collection. Slide number 42. Jamaica, officially the Commonwealth of Jamaica, is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, situated in the Caribbean Sea. Jamaica is south of Cuba and west of Hispaniola, the island containing the nation-states of Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the West Indies. Date: circa 1932

© The Boswell Collection, Bexley Heritage Trust / Mary Evans