This was originally the Calvinistic Methodist Church was built in 1913 at the corner of Daisy Bank Road and Longford Place, It is indicated by a red arrow on the aerial image below, dated 1953.
The church was once the home of a Welsh community in Manchester a fact that is further revealed by the foundation stone which is carved in both Welsh and English.
The church
closed in 1951 but later opened again this time as
the Longsight
Spiritualist Church. The Victoria Park
Christian Fellowship that occupies the church
today was originally based at 64 Daisy Bank Road.
My memory of this church has nothing to do with its religious role. In the early 1950s when I was less than 8 years of age my mother took me to this church one day. We walked by the old Longsight Library, crossed Plymouth Grove and went up Daisy Bank Road, past the old toll booth which was by then abandoned but still on-guard at the entrance to Victoria Park. I remember clearly going to the side of the church and entering through a door which led down into the basement. My mam was going to pick up her ration books.
