Whalley Range, Manchester

Whalley Range is an area of Manchester, England, 2 miles (3.2 km) south-west of the city centre. The population at the 2011 census was 15,430. Historically in Lancashire, it was one of the earliest of the city's suburbs, built by local businessman Samuel Brooks.

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Hartley Victoria College

Hartley Victoria College was a Methodist theological college in Manchester, England. In 1934, after the union that created the Methodist Church of Great Britain, Victoria Park merged with the nearby Hartley College to create Hartley Victoria College. It closed in 2015. Hartley College was founded for training clergy for the Primitive Methodist ministry in 1881. In 1906 the Manchester theological college for training Primitive Methodist ministers was renamed Hartley College in recognition of the benefactions of Sir William Pickles Hartley of Hartley's jams. The original Hartley College building in Whalley Range was sold to the Northern School of Music, which later sold it to the Kassim Darwish Grammar School for Boys. Victoria Park College opened as the training establishment of the United Methodist Free Church in 1877. After union in 1907 and closure of the Methodist New Connexion Ranmoor College in Sheffield, Victoria Park became the ministerial college of the United Methodist Church. In 1934 after the Methodist Union, Victoria Park and Hartley College merged and the Victoria Park, Manchester site was sold.

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St Bede's College, Manchester

St Bede's College is an Independent Roman Catholic co-educational day school for pupils between 3 and 18 years located on Alexandra Road South in Whalley Range, Manchester, England. It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. Originally founded in 1876 in All Saints, Manchester as a Commercial College by the Bishop of Salford, Herbert Vaughan, the College moved to its present site on Alexandra Park Road in 1877 and in 1891 became the Diocesan Junior Seminary. The College is no longer operated by the Diocese of Salford and is today an independent charitable trust run by a board of trustees.

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Alexandra Park, Manchester

Alexandra Park is a 60-acre (24 ha) park in Whalley Range, Manchester, England, on the border of Moss Side, Manchester, on the border of Fallowfield, Manchester, designed by Alexander Gordon Hennell, and opened to the public in 1870. The lodge and gateways are the work of Alfred Darbyshire. The park was developed by Manchester Corporation before the area was incorporated into the city, the site being purchased in 1864 from William Egerton, 1st Baron Egerton. The roads to the East and West sides of the park were named Princess Road and Alexandra Road, also in honour of Princess Alexandra.

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William Hulme's Grammar School

William Hulme's Grammar School is a coeducational all-through comprehensive school in Whalley Range, Manchester, England.

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