Pendlebury: Attractions and more...
The Northern Cemetery is known as the Agecroft Cemetery and was open to public on 2nd of July 1903. There is also a crematorium which was opened in the old no-conformist burial chapel in the year 1957. One can also visit the St. Augustine’s Church. This church was built between the periods of 1871 to 1874. It has the finest art with gothic style of architecture to it. The churchyard has a memorial of the people who lost their lives in the Clifton Hall Colliery disaster in 1885. An underground explosion of firedamp led to this disaster. This church is better known as the miner’s cathedral.
The Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital
Another place worth visiting is the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital in hospital road. This hospital was built in 1873. Pendlebury War memorial is another monument which is at the junction of Agecroft road and Bolton Road. Here, there is a stone cross with an inscription of “Lest we forget”. The inscriptions were in the memory of brave men who lost their lives for their country.
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