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Great Lever, Bolton, Greater Manchester

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Makka Mosque on Grecian Crescent. SD 717 078. © Mike Berrell.

Masjid Al-Jamia Darul Quran Mosque, on Bridgeman Street. SD 709 078. © Mike Berrell.

Rose Hill U.R.C. (dating from 1927) on Bradford Road. Another view. SD 723 072. Both © Mike Berrell.

Royal Bolton Hospital on Redgate Way, Chapel, Mosque and Temple. SD 715 064. All © Mike Berrell.

The former St. Bartholomew (1879, demolished 1962) stood on St. Bartholomew's Street. SD 721 080. Copyright Bolton Council. From the collections of Bolton Museum and Archive Service, and reproduced here by the efforts of Mike Berrell, and by kind permission of the Bolton Museum and Archive Service.

St. Michael (1851) undergoing works in 2012. On Manchester Road. SD 731 071. © Mike Berrell (2012). Link. Grade II listed - link.

St. Peter and St. Paul (R.C.) on Pilkington Street. SD 714 084. © Mike Berrell (2010). Mike advises that it closed in 2009.

St. Philip on Bridgeman Street. Interior view. SD 708 077. Both © Mike Berrell.

St. Simon and St. Jude (CoE) on Rishton Lane. SD 717 073. © Mike Berrell. Mike advises that it has since closed (2011), and the congregation now meets at St Simon and St Jude’s School. This news item reports on vandalism at the church.

St. William of York (R.C.) on Lever Edge Lane. SD 712 071. © Mike Berrell (2010). Two interior views - 1, 2. Both © Mike Berrell (2016).

The Polish Roman Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd (1963) on High Street. I've also added a photo of the date-stone, mainly for the unusual name! This was built as Independent Methodist in 1893, and continued as Methodist until 1962. The present congregation moved in in 1963. SD 713 078. Both © Mike Berrell (2016).



 


 

 
 

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