oo tea, do i remember dean stack, i wanted to get married at st, marys ossy, & i had to get permission off him , oo i think it took me a month to pluck up courage to go , but i did get permission , i did get married at st, marys, then moved to acc, & attended sacred heart. there was another priest there too WORSE than dean stack but i cant remember his name, i had a few run ins with him . mmm not saying anymore ///

church
 

took these today of the church thought you would like to see the work they have done

Salvage v Demolition
 

Judging by those photo's, they don't appear to be taking much care in dismantling the vaulted arches...I though that type of stonework would have been worth quite a few bob.

From Accy to ashes, dust to dust.

Photos of Sacred Heart, having the "heart" ripped out of it.
 

Thanks for these photos Mick. I went past on the train today on my way to Blackpool, and noticed the huge hole in the back of the church. What a dam..d shame!

It's a shame that they had to knock it down, it was a lovely church.

They did'nt have to knock it down.........they could have deconsecrated the building and sold it off for another use. Instead, one more example of our great Victorian building heritage has gone to rubble.

We look at those nutters in the 1960's who destroyed most of our great town architecture throughout the land and replaced it with rubbish.......Accy escaped relatively unscathed. It now looks like we're trying to catch up.

Sacred heart
 

yet some more pics of the church

And some more
 

how about these as well

yet more
 

here are the rest i took today

There will be more to follow weather permitting

Looks like there will be nowt left by this time next week. This is outrageous, outrageous..

I have been talking to someone that did a lot of the art work in the church.
he is very upset at the way they are just ripping the place down.

Artwork....
 

...I can imagine the artist is upset. This is the equivalent of burning books.....it is a kick in the face...no attempt appears to have been made to preserve any of the finer items...no salvage, no nothing.

I wonder what whatever goes up on the site will look like.

Look At This Window
 

GOING GOING GONE what a shame

Its a stained glass window and they are just reking it