(Bethesda) Home for Crippled and Incurable Children, George Street, Cheetham Hill

HOME FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN. MANCHESTER - A new home for crippled children was opened in the neighbourhood of Cheetham Hill, Manchester on the 6^th inst. The new Home (which has been designed by Messrs Maxwell and Tuke) is very pleasantly situated, standing in its own grounds - which cover about an acre and a half - and in close proximity to Broughton Park. It is intended to accommodate about 40 children, although there is really room for a few more. Twenty of these will be boys and the rest girls. On the ground floor are two spacious day rooms, one for boys and one for girls. Each room is well lighted heated and ventilated. Hot water pipes are carried through the whole building. The dormitories are on the first floor, the servants’ rooms being above them, and the cooking and laundry quarters in the basement. Near the staircase and communicating from the top of the house to the bottom is an elevator. Messrs R Neill and Sons were the builders, and the cost of the building has been about £3000 [British Architect 10 January 1890 Page 35]

A new Home for Crippled and Incurable Children, built at a cost of £5,000, in George -street, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, was formally opened on Monday. The home accommodates 40 children, and stands in grounds of an acre and a half. On the ground floor are two day-rooms, one for boys, the other for girls. Hot-water pipes are carried throughout the whole building. The dormitories are on the first floor, the servants' rooms being above them, and the cooking and laundry quarters in the basement. Near the staircase, and communicating from the top of the house to the bottom, is an elevator. Messrs. Robert Neill and Sons, of Manchester, are the builders, and Messrs. Maxwell and Tuke, of the same city, the architects. [Building News 10 January 1890 page 86]

Opened by Oliver Heywood on 4 January 1890. Estimated cost - £3,000. Site – George Street/Coke Street