Religious Urbex. St Oswalds and the convent of mercy. Big fail , ho hum.
Well I was hoping this was going to be a BOGOF deal, with a “plus one”.
You know, when you are Billy no mates and get an invitation to a wedding with the words “plus one” at the end,
Does he even have a girlfriend?
I don’t know he is your friend
Shall we leave him off the list?
Nah! Best ask him and his “plus one”
Well this was supposed to be two schools and a church or a school a church and a club,
it was vague.
It was also on a busy dual carriageway, right by some traffic lights. Shudda come during lockdown: man there was a lot of traffic on the road; couldn’t find a way in anyways, recent boards erected and chains on gates: unsociable bastards.
St Oswald’s Parish Club was built as a Methodist chapel circa 1845, it was bought by the Catholic Church the church in 1866 and was in use as a school the nuns playing the role of teacher, and laterly as a meeting place for the Catholic Young Men’s Society. In 1966 it became the Parish Club. Closing over 10 years ago.
An adjoining side street, a primary school, an open gate, security cameras, worth a go.
Thwarted! All buildings secure, climbed over a wall and ended up here
The order of Our Lady of Mercy wax originally founded in Dublin in 1827, by Catherine McCauley: Catherine had visited the site in Liverpool in 1841, alas,she died in 1841, before the Liverpool foundation was made. The Sisters finally moved into the Convent in Liverpool in August 1843.
In 1854, The Crimean War broke out between an alliance of Britain, France, and Turkey against an expansionist Russia.
An appeal was made for volunteer nurses and the Bishop Thomas Grant, First Bishop of Southwark, responded by requesting for Mercy Sisters go to the Crimea. ( no doubt whilst he remained nicely housed in luxury in London eating off the fat of the land)
“Forward he cried from the rear and the front rank died “ springs to mind.
A group of five Mercy Sisters left three days after Bishop Grant’s offer, 11 Irish nurses from Ireland and Liverpool convents answered the call, there they tended to the wounded and dying.
Some dying for their efforts
A poignant memorial amongst a host of further simple graves.
Very peaceful and well looked after. So over another wall always hopeful,
Nope hope isn’t always the answer, nothing but dead people to end my fail
A lot of infant mortality; a lot of memorials that have stood the test of time; a lot of money spent; a lot of wealthy undertakers; stonemasons. Et al, and for what?
So I didn’t get my bogof deal, and like Billy no mates my “plus one” never made an appearance. Ho hum.
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I am no longer Spider-Man I have to agree. Even a lumbering elephant would look graceful!
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