Conservative Club - Ardwick This building in Higher Ardwick
started life as the Conservative Club. The
foundation stone and the plaque at the top of the
building indicate that it dates from 1878. I have
shaded it in red on the map below.
 The red arrow indicats it on the aerial photograph below taken in 1953.  I suppose we can conclude that the
carved device on the foundation stone involved the
letters ACC artistically entwined.
  The building was designed by Slater
and Kendal and is descrived in the Pevsner Guide as
being made of, "... red brick with stone and
terracotta dressings .. two tall storeys with
arcades of windows flanking a narrow entrance bay
crowned by a segmental pediment."
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