St. Peters Ancoats
The old derelict St Peter’s church in Ancoats is presently under-going a complete re-structuring and both external and internal work is in process through the Ancoats Buildings Preservation Trust.

The very distinctive Tower is a well known Land mark and it is almost complete, there is still the final topping to be put in place, A feature in the Tower will be the various levels of observation windows, and the panoramic experience on reaching the top.

The building will house a ground floor foyer with shops, an auditorium with a stage’ two Bar areas on both lower and higher levels accessible by a stairway or by a lift which is to be included in the plans.
The top floor will be an exhibition and function room and on each of the floors will be WC facilities.

In September an invitation was sent out for the Public to visit the church to see how the scheme was progressing, and an exhibit plus a “Talk and Walk” around the planned Ancoats Village and the Murray Mills was arranged.
The Have Your Say magazine was included in the exhibit and our stall attendants were giving out both current and earlier issues of the magazine which was proving to be a very attractive point of interest, the magazine was a popular “pick-up” and received lots of commendations from the Public many of them travelling from afar but their roots remain in Ancoats.

A further treat in store for the visitors was the provision of a coach to ferry them to Gorton to see the work being done at the St Francis’ Monastery which is also being re-structured.
Tom Connor