Longton

[Trees]

I wonder if anyone knows anything about the Anglican Mission of the Good Shepherd Wharf Street Longton please I know a Lay Reader Edward Ellard was there between 1888 and 1900 and would like to know a bit more about it, when was it built is it still there and so on, I would particularly love to see a photograph.
Fingers crossed some one can help
Trees

[cati]

Here's a couple of general views of Wharf Street from 1905 and 1908:

http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/resource/exhibition/standard/default.asp?resource=6905

http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?txtKeywords=wharf+street+longton&lstContext=&lstResourceType=&lstExhibition

The Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Records Office catalogue deosn't seem to have anything else on Wharf Street.

[Trees]

Many thanks for trying cati that was all I could find too. I wonder if St John's church will have anything. It was at a time when there were a lot of incomers to the area  and when several chapels were quickly built. Around here it was the era of the "Tin"(corrugated iron) churches so I wondered if the mission was like these or a more permanent structure

[cati]

It does sound as if it could have been a Tin Tabernacle, doesn't it?

[Alan Mansell]

Wharf Street, (now Bridgewood Street) Longton is not shown on the 1878 O.S. maps as having any buildings. It was at that time in the district of St. Peters, Caverswall. This district, called East Vale was annexed to Longton in 1883 or 1884 as part of Longton's expansion. By 1904 the only mission listed in Kelly's Directory is St Andrews off Forrister Street. This mission was also connected with Caverswall parish church.
It might be worth checking with archives at Hanley Library as they have very large scale O.S. maps of this area from around the dates you are interested in and it may well show up on one of these maps.
Alan.

[chempat]

Wharf Street towards top left hand corner of map in 1889:

http://maps.nls.uk/view/101596130