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Boggart Hole Brook is a river in Blackley, Manchester, England, which is a tributary of the River Irk. It rises in Boggart Hole Clough, near the main lake, and has a length of just over a mile (1.6 km).
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North Manchester
North Manchester was, from 1896 to 1916 a civil parish within the Poor Law Union of Manchester, in Lancashire, (now Greater Manchester) England. North Manchester was a local government sub-district used for the administration of Poor Law legislation; it was an inter-parish unit for social security. Although abolished in 1916, the name North Manchester endured for the area, and is still applied to the northern parts of the city, for instance as a registration district up until 1974.
The parish was formed on 26 March 1896 from Beswick, Blackley, Bradford, Cheetham, Clayton, Crumpsall, Harpurhey, Moston and Newton, all of which had been amalgamated into Manchester during the mid-to-late 19th century. On 1 April 1916 the parish was abolished and merged with Manchester. In 1911 the parish had a population of 208,324.
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Boggart Hole Clough
Boggart Hole Clough is a large woodland and urban country park in Blackley, a suburb of Manchester, England. It occupies an area of approximately 76 hectares (190 acres), part of an ancient woodland, with picturesque cloughs varying from steep ravines to sloping gullies. Clough is a local dialect word for a steep sided, wooded valley. Boggart Hole Clough was designated a Local Nature Reserve in 2008.
Historically, local activists used Boggart Hole Clough for open air meetings but in 1896, when Manchester City Council acquired the land they tried to stop these meetings by fining speakers. The speakers rebelled by refusing to pay the fines and the publicity increased audiences from hundreds to tens of thousands. National figures began to attend, including Keir Hardie. A women's suffrage demonstration of 15,000 was held at Boggart Hole Clough on 15 July 1906 where a group of men caused a disturbance that was reported in the Manchester Guardian. Veteran suffragist campaigner Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy attended and wrote an account of being caught up in the scrum.
The park stages a number of cross-country events and mountain bike rides, along with summer fundays and an annual bonfire and firework display. It also provides facilities for a number of other activities, ranging from boating to athletics.
Boggart Hole Clough featured in the childhood memories of ex-Manchester City footballer Fred Eyre in his autobiography "Kicked Into Touch", who lived in the adjacent Clough Top Road.
Local folklore holds that the clough is haunted by a boggart, a mischievous spirit found mainly in Lancashire and Yorkshire, perhaps in an attempt to explain the unusual name.
In 2008, Boggart Hole Clough attained the Green Flag Award for the eighth consecutive year.
Boggart Hole Brook rises in the clough.
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Booth Hall Children's Hospital
Booth Hall Children's Hospital was located in Blackley, Manchester. It was managed by Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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Church of St Peter, Blackley
The Church of St Peter is a Gothic Revival church on Old Market Street in Blackley, a suburban area of Manchester, England. It was built in 1844 to a design by the ecclesiastical architect E. H. Shellard. It was a Commissioners' church, erected at a cost of £3,162. The church is particularly notable for its almost completely intact interior. It was designated a Grade II* listed building on 20 June 1988.
The church is of "coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings". The nave has buttresses and "clumsy" pinnacles and ends in a "blunt" west tower. The interior is aisled and "particularly impressive for its complete (nineteenth century) interior with the extremely unusual survival of all the fine boxes and other pews".
The churchyard contains the war graves of ten service personnel of World War I and seven of World War II.