Manchester Street Children’s Mission Wood Street

Wood Street Mission, known officially as the Manchester and Salford Street Children’s Mission, was founded in 1869 by Alfred Alsop, to provide spiritual and practical support for poor children in the slum areas of central Manchester and Salford. In 1873 the Mission moved to its present premises on Wood Street. The practical necessities of life - food, clothing and shelter - were provided for hundreds of poor children and their families, while their spiritual and recreational needs were also attended to: church services and Sunday schools were held, and in 1897 a holiday camp was built at St Anne’s on Sea. The Wood Street Mission is a registered charity which continues to provide services to the community, with particular emphasis on mitigating the effects of poverty and deprivation on children, young people and their families in the Manchester and Salford areas.

Slater notes that the Boys’ Home and Women’s refuge (Wood Street) was rebuilt in 1897 of terra cotta.

Reference           Hartwell South East Lancashire Page 347