Now I like this picture of Hartley College as it was.
And that is partly because so much of the building is visible, and because we have a date for it.
That said the date of 1914, may not be entirely accurate, as this was the year the photograph was placed in the catalogue by the company Valentine who sold picture postcards.
But that is still a good working date and if it is earlier, can only be after the tram service started up along the road.
The college was founded by the Methodists in 1881 for training young men for the Methodist ministry, and in 1906 was renamed Hartley College after Sir William Pickles Hartley of Hartley's jams who was a benefactor.
The building was sold to the Northern School of Music, which later sold it to the Kassim Darwich Grammar School for Boys.*
Location; Whalley Range
Picture; Hartley College, circa 1914, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*Hartley Victoria College Chapel Primitive Methodist, Whalley Range, https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/MossSide/HartleyVictoriaCollegeChapel
That said the date of 1914, may not be entirely accurate, as this was the year the photograph was placed in the catalogue by the company Valentine who sold picture postcards.
But that is still a good working date and if it is earlier, can only be after the tram service started up along the road.
The building was sold to the Northern School of Music, which later sold it to the Kassim Darwich Grammar School for Boys.*
Location; Whalley Range
Picture; Hartley College, circa 1914, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*Hartley Victoria College Chapel Primitive Methodist, Whalley Range, https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/MossSide/HartleyVictoriaCollegeChapel
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