Sign of the White Hart

This is the sign for the White Hart at Mottram-in-Longdendale.

See the whole pub on Hyde DP Xtra.

Mottram Post Office

Mottram Post Office is part of a convenience store at the corner of Hyde Road and Stalybridge Road.

Previously it was on Back Lane.

Mottram Congregational Church

The church dates from 1791 but was altered in 1836 and 1852 when the stone wing was added.

It was built as a Methodist meeting house, changed to the New Connexion in 1803 and to a Congregational church around 1850.

It is said to be the oldest surviving Methodist chapel in the Manchester area which is still in use as a place of worship.

The church itself is now an independent Evangelical Church whilst the adjoining chapel serves as a Pregnancy Advice Centre and other local community services.

It is a Grade II listed building. See Old Hyde for the official description.

Mottram Bus Shelter

Just down the road from L S Lowry's old house The Elms is this rather elegant looking bus shelter.

The Elms

Last week I asked Who lived in a house like this?

The answer, as a few of you knew, is L.S. Lowry who lived at The Elms in Mottram-in-Longdendale from 1948 until his death in 1976.

It isn't exactly Lowryesque but I thought I'd give it a painterly look.

You can see my original photograph on Geograph.

Mottram Crown Pole

The Crown Pole at Mottram-in-Longdendale was originally erected in 1760 for the coronation of George III. It was replaced in 1902 and again in 1926.

Read more on Old Hyde.

Old Post Office Farm

Built in 1694 as a farmhouse, #2 Back Lane housed Mottram Post Office for many years.

Like Ye Olde Village Fish & Chip Shop next door it is a Grade II listed building.

You can read the official description on Old Hyde.

ABC Wednesday: Y is for Ye Olde Village Fish & Chip Shop

When I showed you this shop back in July 2008 it was closed.

But now it is open.

It is a Grade II listed building and you can read its official description on Old Hyde.

For more Y posts visit ABC Wednesday.

Mottram Courthouse

The courthouse at Mottram is now the home of the Tameside Patrollers. It is a Grade II listed building. Read the official description on Old Hyde.

Mottram Old Grammar School

Behind St Michaels and All Angels Church at Mottram can be found the Old Grammar School, now a private house.

It is a Grade II listed building and you can view the official description on Old Hyde.

Mottram Schoolhouse

The Old School House at Mottram is now part of the Community Centre.

It is a listed building. For the official description see Old Hyde.

Shadow Shot Sunday:Mottram Stocks

This photograph from Summer 2009 features the village stocks at Mottram-in-Longdendale.

The stocks are a "Grade II listed building" - for the official description and an earlier photograph see Old Hyde.

For more shadow shots visit Hey Harriet.

Winterbottom View

The waste ground in the foreground of this shot used to be Winterbottom Grove on the Hattersley Estate. It is part of the area East of Stockport Road that was demolished in recent years.

We are here overlooking Mill Hill Green with Mottram church in the background.

A Wall dated 1769

Whilst wandering around Mottram Church last month, just below the burial ground, I came upon this wall dated 1769.

As far as I could tell the door doesn't seem to lead anywhere in particular. I imagine there was once an enclosure of some sort here but now there is just this wall.

Warhill Sundial

The Warhill Sundial is behind Mottram Church.

It was a Medieval cross originally, but heavily restored in 1760 and 1897. The stepped circular ashlar plinth is inscribed "Restored in commemoration of the sixtieth year of the reign of Queen Victoria 1897". The octagonal shaft on the moulded base has a foliated capital and supports a cubical sundial with 3 copper faces. The front face is inscribed "hora pars vitae", the rear "and watch and pray time hastes away when time is done eternity comes on".

According to the Public Monument and Sculpture Association

"It is widely assumed that the present sundial stands on or close to the site of the Mottram Cross though both the documentary and archaeological evidence of an older cross is frustratingly slight. It is unclear when a cross was first built and when a sundial was added. Writing shortly after the erection of the present monument, Thomas Middleton repeated the local tradition that the cross was erected in or about 1760 though he did note that there appeared to be some confusion about whether the reports referred to the Mottram Crown Pole which was also raised in that coronation year. Aikin, or more likely Stockdale who had first-hand knowledge of Mottram, noted the existence of an ancient cross by the churchyard in the much quoted volume of 1795. Notes made by John Wagstaffe, churchwarden at St Michael's, state that the sundial was the work of a Mr Wardleworth. It is, however, known that the present sundial was built using stone from the earlier cross, and erected in honour of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The new sundial was situated a short distance from the place where the cross stood and was paid for by 'a few private subscribers'."

Mottram Library

Just up the road from Mottram Cricket Club is Mottram Library, set back from the main road by a small park.

Footpath to Mottram Church

The footpath from Broadbottom Road to Mottram Church comes out on Church Brow next to Gimble Gamble cottage.

See that side on Hyde DP Xtra.

View from Mottram Church

The view from the burial ground of St Michael and All Angels church at Mottram in Longdendale.

These Pennine hills stretch from Cheshire into Derbyshire and Yorkshire.

Mottram Cricket Club

About a mile up the same road from Broadbottom Cricket Club is Mottram Cricket Club.


It was established in 1878 and plays in the Derbyshire and Cheshire Leauge.

Lunch at the Waggon

"Sunday Lunch Served" it says on the sign.

Well not now it isn't, and not in this outbuilding.


The Waggon on Broadbottom Road, Mottram is currently undergoing renovation, unlke the Red Lion which you can see on Hyde DP Xtra.