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Post by fredbo on Nov 25, 2011 20:11:30 GMT
Can anyone tell me where Hyde Lane Independant church is or where it use to be?
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Woody
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Post by Woody on Nov 26, 2011 8:37:14 GMT
Hi Fredbo
You could do with looking at a free copy of 'Annals of Hyde and District' which you'll locate if you Google the title of the book. Download it in PDF format so that you can use Adobe to search it. There are many enlightening references to 'Hyde Lane', but only a couple to Hyde Lane Chapel. I've reproduced a few of the passages here in case you can't find the book:
...."Hyde Chapel, or Gee Cross as it is now generally denominated, is a small village. The name Red Pump Street (which was given to a row of cottages built by Mr Hegginbottom, and not by Mr. Sidebotham, as Aiken states) was the name by which modern Hyde was first known. Later, we find the name of Hyde Lane (the principal road from Red Pump Street to Gee Cross) used to designate the growing village. Finally, with the increase of the population, the name (Hyde) of the township seems to have become generally used.
Up to 1811 the only place of worship in the district was the old Presbyterian Chapel, at Gee Cross. As a consequence, Unitarian ideas were gaining ground, whilst residents holding Trinitarian doctrines were obliged to travel some distance each Sunday in order to join in worship according to their own theological views.
This unsatisfactory state of things was laid before the Rev T. Bennett, of Dukinfield, who consented to come over and preach if a suitable room could be secured. Permission was given by the Messrs. Ashton, cotton manufacturers, for services to be held in a room owned by them in Cross Street. Here Mr. Bennett preached his first sermon on May 30th, 1811. After a short time the permission to use the premises was withdrawn, and the services were continued at the house of a Mr. Gee, in Hyde Lane, opposite the end of Union Street.
Prosperity attending the movement a plot of land was taken and the "Hyde Lane Chapel" was built on the site of the Mechanics' Institute in 1814". (The Mechanics' Institute was founded in 1850 and its site was at the corner of Market Street and Union Street.)
Woody
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