The bottom of Hornby Street is another part of my hometown, Bury which has some surprisingly interesting Gothic-type imagery provided by the dark buildings there. These buildings seem to stand out at sundown:
I've been told that these buildings stand near where the old populated area of 'Paradise' used to be, where my father's side of the family come from. The building below looks as if it might well have been a church in the past, but, if so, it hasn't been one for many a year:
Yes, I think that the bottom of Hornby Street is a dark and mysterious place, holding echoes of the past, of what my hometown once was.
Some of these buildings are currently owned and used by a Shia mosque. I believe it used to be a school but maybe it was also a. Church.
ReplyDeleteI can confirm that these buildings once housed St John's Schools, begun in 1869. The school moved to a new site in 1972, and is now known as "St John with St Mark CoE Primary School". https://crumbsfromtable.blogspot.com/2025/06/st-johns-schools-bury-former-boys-and.html
ReplyDeleteThanks for the information, Russell. The Shia mosque info. doesn't surprise me, to be honest.
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