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37-568: Brookfield Unitarian Church , Gorton , Manchester , England is a Victorian Gothic church. It is a member of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches , the umbrella body for British Unitarians. Brookfield Unitarian Church was built between 1869 and 1871 to replace the Gorton Chapel, which stood on the same ground. It was commissioned by Richard Peacock (1820–1889), engineer and Liberal MP for Manchester, and designed by

74-419: A Gorton resident and a neighbour of Hindley. The third victim, Keith Bennett, whose body has never been found, was also from Gorton. The Industrial Revolution brought work and industry to Gorton in the form of locomotive factories, including that of Beyer, Peacock & Company . Today these sites continue to employ workers in a variety of fields, from local private businesses to national companies, including

111-518: A battle between the Saxons and Danes nearby. This has been dismissed by historians as "popular fancy". The name Gorton means "dirty farmstead", perhaps taking its name from the Gore Brook, or dirty brook, which still runs through the township today. The brook may have acquired that name because of the dirty appearance of its water, perhaps caused by discolouration due to peat or iron deposits. Gorton

148-489: A multimillion-pound redevelopment of the Gorton District Shopping Centre. The small market and retail area were demolished and work started in late 2007 to construct a new market hall and Tesco Extra hypermarket on the site. In July 2008, the new Manchester Gorton Market Hall was opened to the public. The construction of the new hypermarket and neighbouring petrol station continued, and in late October 2008,

185-468: A north-west steeple. The church has a bold, simple, and perfect Ecclesiological interior." The church, and its graveyard, have suffered much from vandalism in recent years. Peacock, a partner in the locomotive engineering firm of Beyer, Peacock & Company is buried in the cemetery of the church, along with members of his family, in the Peacock Mausoleum , also by Thomas Worthington . The Church

222-430: A private company. An early success was the world's first successful type of steam condensing locomotives for underground railways, of which 148 were built. In the 20th century, the company designed and manufactured more than 1,000 powerful articulated locomotives called Garratts . By the time the company wound up in 1966, it had built nearly 8,000 steam and diesel locomotives. The former municipal borough of Manchester

259-577: A year. The zoo was the third-largest in the UK, and the exhibition hall held concerts from a range of national and international artists, such as Jimi Hendrix and The Rolling Stones . After 141 years, the zoo closed in 1977, with the rest of the site finally cleared for redevelopment in 1982. Myra Hindley , convicted of taking part in the Moors Murders in 1966, grew up in Gorton. She and Ian Brady lived there at

296-552: Is Afzal Khan . Following Boundary changes to take effect following the July 4th 2024 General Election, the area will be covered under the Gorton and Denton constituency. Gorton Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1854 and is an amateur orchestra. The folk comedy group Gorton Tank were based in Gorton and were popular in the Manchester area. The painter Michael Gutteridge was born in Gorton. The Gorton Morris Men were responsible for reviving

333-466: Is an area of Manchester in Greater Manchester , England. It is to the southeast of Manchester city centre . The population at the 2011 census was 36,055. Neighbouring areas include Levenshulme and Openshaw . A major landmark is Gorton Monastery , a 19th-century High Victorian Gothic former Franciscan friary. According to local folklore, Gorton derives its name from Gore Town, due to

370-693: Is now the Lowry in Salford Quays . But when the show rolled out of town, he remained in London. He married Josephine, an American horse trainer who had just given birth to their first child, Bessie and together they settled in Darwen , before moving to Gorton. His name was changed to George Edward Williams, after registering with the British immigration authorities to enable him to find work. Williams ended up as an elephant keeper at

407-459: The Belle Vue Zoo . He died on 28 July 1929 from pneumonia aged fifty-two. He was buried in Gorton's cemetery. The world-famous Belle Vue Zoological Gardens , comprising a zoo, gardens, amusement park, exhibition complex and speedway stadium, was opened in 1836 in Gorton and became one of the leading attractions in the UK. The site spanned 165 acres of land and attracted over two million visitors

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444-732: The Docklands Light Railway in London was driven along a short stretch of track to demonstrate the light rail / tram configuration then being planned for Manchester. Soon after the demonstration, the Fallowfield line was dismantled; it has since been converted by Sustrans into a shared use path – the Fallowfield Loop – which runs from Fairfield to St Werburgh's Road tram stop in Chorlton-cum-Hardy . A company that became renowned for its locomotives, exported world-wide,

481-545: The Hope Valley line and Glossop line stop at Gorton. Services are operated by Northern , with trains to Manchester Piccadilly , Glossop , Hadfield and Rose Hill Marple . Until 1970, passenger services on the Great Central Railway passed through the station. Gorton station is mentioned in the 1964 song Slow Train by Flanders & Swann , where it was referred to as Openshaw . Another railway station in

518-670: The Manchester Gorton parliamentary constituency , comprising Gorton North, Gorton South, Fallowfield, Longsight, Levenshulme, Rusholme and Whalley Range wards. Since boundary reviews in 2018 the Gorton area is covered within a single electoral ward – Gorton and Abbey Hey . Father of the House and Britain's longest serving backbench MP, Sir Gerald Kaufman , represented the Gorton area (Ardwick followed by Manchester Gorton) for 47 years until his death in February 2017. Manchester Gorton's current MP

555-926: The Plains Indians . Their official residence today is the Standing Rock Reservation in North and South Dakota and the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota, home also to the Itazipco (No Bows), the Minneconjou (People Who Live Near Water) and Oohenumpa (Two Kettle), all bands of the Lakota. In 1880, John Grass provided a list of the bands (tiyóšpaye) of the Sihasapa: This article relating to

592-509: The Gorton area, Hyde Road , was opened in 1882 on the Fallowfield Loop railway line until the route closed to passengers in 1958. The station had a brief revival in 1987, when it played a role in the early development of the Manchester Metrolink system. A temporary station called Debdale Park was constructed on the station site to host a public exhibition of Project Light Rail, in which a DLR P86 stock light rail vehicle on loan from

629-816: The Mount Olivet Apostolic Church (originally the Anglican church of Our Lady of Mercy and St Thomas of Canterbury) on Mount Road, which was built by Walter Tapper in 1927. Gorton Heritage Trail is a public trail with 20 sites of interest. The trail is partly semi-rural, largely located within the Gore Brook Valley Conservation Area, and highlights various local landmarks, including ecological and topographical sites, and grade-listed monuments and buildings. The trail starts in Sunny Brow Park, and leads northwards to Debdale Park , following

666-469: The area is beginning to attract more trendy, urban buyers. Belle Vue is a locality within Gorton, as are West Gorton, which was included in the City of Manchester in 1890, whereas the remainder of Gorton wasn't until 1909, thanks largely to the work of councillor Joseph Henry Williamson, then Chairman of Gorton Urban District Council , and Abbey Hey , mostly a residential district, but also well known locally as

703-622: The base of a valley and Gore Brook that runs through Gorton, flowing west to the river Mersey. Much of this area contains the Gore Brook Valley Conservation Area . Ryder Brow is served by Ryder Brow railway station . Gorton also has several allotments and parks which are supported through the Gorton Horticultural Society . Gorton is home to Gorton Monastery , a Franciscan , 19th century High Victorian Gothic friary. This has been renovated and secularised: it

740-480: The countryside round about. Nell Parlour, a local place associated with the supernatural, was a clough known for a 'village damsel' who had been seduced and 'became insane'. Higson also wrote a boggart poem in local dialect entitled 'Th' Boggart O' Gorton Chapelyord'. [REDACTED] Media related to Gorton at Wikimedia Commons Sihasapa Sihásapa is the Lakota word for "Blackfoot", whereas Siksiká has

777-511: The football club later in the decade. The first recorded football game was played in November 1880. A Blackfoot Sioux chief named Charging Thunder came to Salford aged 26 as part of Buffalo Bill 's Wild West Show in 1903. Like many Lakota tribesmen, Charging Thunder was an exceptional horseman and performed thrilling stunts in Buffalo Bill 's show in front of huge crowds, on the site of what

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814-468: The location of Wright Robinson College . The area south of the former Roman road, Hyde Road , and between Belle Vue and Reddish is a historic area in which various ancient tools and weapons have been unearthed from various historic battles that took place there. Many local placenames allude to this history, including Winning Hill, also known as Ryder Brow, a locality within Gorton that contains many topographical features, including Bottom o’ th’ Brow at

851-489: The manufacturing headquarters of Iceland . A number of retail and recreation sites are also a source of local employment for many in the area, such as the TV and film production studio, Space Studios , which employs up to 300 people. Less than 3 miles from the centre of Manchester, Gorton is also made up of many tertiary sector workers who commute into the city. The popular television series Shameless , which aired on Channel 4 ,

888-414: The new Tesco Extra store opened its doors for trading. Further retail outlets were developed near this site along Hyde Road, including Subway , Coral and Age UK . Regeneration works are continuing to make Gorton "an even better place to live and work". This includes the demolition of all former tower blocks and construction of new homes and parks. House prices in the area are rising as a result of this as

925-593: The prolific Manchester architect Thomas Worthington . The church cost Peacock £12,000. It was designated a Grade II* listed building on 3 October 1974. The churchyard lodges and the Sunday School are also listed buildings . The church steeple contains a peal of eight bells, all named after members of the Peacock family. Nikolaus Pevsner 's The Buildings of England describes the church as "very large and strikingly-prosperous looking. Stone, Early English style, with

962-478: The reverse course of Gore Brook. There are a number of grade-listed buildings in Gorton, most notably Gorton Monastery . Other listed buildings and monuments include: Gorton was home to the world-famous Belle Vue Zoological Gardens from 1836 until its closure in the 1980s. At its peak, Belle Vue attracted more than two million visitors a year. The area is served by several railway stations including Gorton , Ashburys , Belle Vue and Ryder Brow . Trains on

999-492: The rushcart ceremony in Gorton. Manchester City F.C. were founded as St. Mark's (West Gorton) in 1880. Abbey Hey F.C. club is in Gorton. "Bouncing Billy Barker" was a local man who specialised in jumping feats. The current Britbowl champions (as of 2023), are the Manchester Titans , which are based in Gorton. John Higson (1825–1871), a Gorton antiquarian, wrote about mid-nineteenth-century supernatural beliefs in what

1036-786: The same meaning in the Nitsitapi language , and, together with the Kainah and the Piikani forms the Nitsitapi Confederacy . As a result, the Sihásapa have the same English name as the Blackfoot Confederacy (correctly: Nitsitapi Confederacy), and the nations are sometimes confused with one another. The Sihásapa lived in the western Dakotas on the Great Plains , and consequently are among

1073-449: The time of the first three Moors murders , before moving to Hattersley in 1964 when Hindley's family home was included in a local demolition programme. Brady and Hindley committed two further murders after moving from Gorton, before they were finally arrested in October 1965. Their first victim, Pauline Reade (who died in July 1963 aged 16, but whose body was not found for 24 years), was

1110-459: Was built on top of the Gorton Chapel, which was established in 1703. There is a stone memorial to the ministers of the Chapel in the church. A notable member of the church was Samuel Birch . The Old Chapel graveyard remains. 53°27′36″N 2°10′07″W  /  53.4599°N 2.1685°W  / 53.4599; -2.1685 Italics denote building under construction Gorton Gorton

1147-406: Was created in 1838 and elevated to a city in 1853. Part of Gorton township was included in the city in 1890. The remaining part of the township became an Urban District of the administrative county of Lancashire in 1894. A small part of the urban district was transferred to the city of Manchester in 1901 and the remaining area was fully incorporated into Manchester in 1909. Gorton forms part of

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1184-503: Was established at Gorton on the southern side of the railway line, in 1854. The proprietors, Charles Beyer , Richard Peacock and Henry Robertson , incorporated in 1902 as Beyer, Peacock & Company . Richard Peacock had previously been the chief engineer of the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway 's locomotive works nearby at Openshaw (north of the railway line), and had seen an opportunity for locomotive manufacture by

1221-431: Was formed with the aim of binding the local community and to combat a form of gang warfare called scuttling that existed in the 1870s. The rector's daughter, Anna Connell, is widely credited as the founder, although churchwarden William Beastow is believed to be the person who played the main part in creating sporting activities for the parish. In 1875, St Mark's Cricket Club are known to have played and this evolved into

1258-480: Was formerly a township and chapelry in the ancient parish of Manchester in the Salford hundred of Lancashire . In 1866 Gorton became a separate civil parish , from 1894 to 1909 Gorton was an urban district , on 1 October 1910 the parish was abolished and merged with South Manchester . In 1901 the parish had a population of 26,564. Manchester City F.C. was founded as St Mark's (West Gorton) in 1880. The club

1295-599: Was mainly filmed in West Gorton. The parade of shops used for filming in the initial series was built on the site of St Mark's Church, Clowes Street, the birthplace of Manchester City F.C. The area has since been demolished and redeveloped with various new social and private housing, new Medical Centre, retail and commercial spaces, as well as the "Space Project" , a large-scale television and film production studio with six sound and prop stages used to film various BBC and ITV productions. In 2006, Manchester City Council started

1332-629: Was previously derelict after the friars moved out. The parish left by the Friars came under the care of the Diocese of Salford . St Francis of Assisi RC Church on Textile Street, Gorton, and Sacred Heart Church, Levenshulme Road, Gorton, now form part of the R.C. Parish of Sacred Heart and St. Francis. Other churches in Gorton which were designed by notable architects include the Brookfield Unitarian Church on Hyde Road , built by Richard Peacock and

1369-452: Was then still a rural community. He detailed a series of local boggarts including: Nell Parlour Boggart ('rough and hairy, with eyes as big as saucers'); Gorton Field Boggart; Green Stile Boggart; and Ho' Lane Boggart (which appeared in the form of 'a dog, hare, rabbit, or other small animal'). There was also a Boggart House (a haunted house). Fairy rings and fairy pipes (tiny early modern pipes) were frequently found, according to Higson, in

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