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Forum: Accy Photos 19-09-2004, 05:36
Replies: 112
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Posted By Acrylic-bob
Re: Sacred Heart Church

Yes, it was formerly the site of the memorial to the dead of the First World War, which was apparently carved in Rome and subsequently dismantled and moved by Dean Stack during which time he also...
Forum: Accy Photos 17-09-2004, 21:07
Replies: 112
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Posted By Acrylic-bob
Re: Sacred Heart Church

Hi greg' your chronology, leaves a couple of questions still standing: namely, why is it that after the Jesuit's handed over the running of the Parish to the Diocese in 1958 did some of the priests...
Forum: Accy Photos 09-08-2004, 07:34
Replies: 112
Views: 15,194
Posted By Acrylic-bob
Re: Sacred Heart Church

Oddly enough, I was musing on such matters only yesterday, ie, the priests I remembered from my childhood. And I was moved to speculate on why so many Priests came from Ireland. I really have...
Forum: Accy Photos 07-05-2004, 15:00
Replies: 112
Views: 15,194
Posted By Acrylic-bob
Smile Re: Sacred Heart Church

Hi Yerself,
The story so far:-
I have been in touch with the Diocesan Office in Salford who supplied the following:

"I couldn't find a reference to him but wasn't sure whether 'Dean' was a...
Forum: Accy Photos 03-05-2004, 21:42
Replies: 112
Views: 15,194
Posted By Acrylic-bob
Re: Sacred Heart Church

Ooops pic to big, try this
Forum: Accy Photos 03-05-2004, 21:36
Replies: 112
Views: 15,194
Posted By Acrylic-bob
Re: Sacred Heart Church

At the risk of boring everyone witless I have managed to dig out an earlier photo. Same procession but in 1962. Taken at the bottom of Willows Lane just outside what is now Platts Social Club. The...
Forum: Accy Photos 03-05-2004, 21:24
Replies: 112
Views: 15,194
Posted By Acrylic-bob
Re: Sacred Heart Church

Hi yerself,
I stand ready to be corrected, memory often plays tricks. But I distinctly remember that on the doors of the confessionals there were name plates for each confessor each of which bore...
Forum: Accy Photos 03-05-2004, 15:41
Replies: 112
Views: 15,194
Posted By Acrylic-bob
Re: Sacred Heart Church

Really bad photo of me in my cassock, I'm in the middle by the way.
Forum: Accy Photos 03-05-2004, 14:08
Replies: 112
Views: 15,194
Posted By Acrylic-bob
Re: Sacred Heart Church

Oh, arrrrgh! those bluddy eaton collars. I hated them they were as stiff as plastic and you had to fasten them with studs and the holes for the studs were minute. I quite liked the gloves though, you...
Forum: Accy Photos 02-05-2004, 16:35
Replies: 112
Views: 15,194
Posted By Acrylic-bob
Re: Sacred Heart Church

I remember Fr. Stack. Terrifying man. The only person I have ever met who could silence a playground full of screaming kids just by walking into it. As an Altar Boy I had the unenviable task of...
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