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'Celebrating Greater Eccles Community - Creativity - Enterprise - Culture' OVERVIEW of our Ecclesiasts Edition Celebrating Ecclesiasts Greater Eccles is our first edition of photographs 'celebrating the communities' of Cadishead, Irlam, Barton, Peel Green, Patricroft, Winton, Worsley, Monton, Ellesmere Park & Eccles. Greater Eccles is a unique place in history, picture below are the Eccles Wakes of yesteryear and held each year over three days in late August. The Wakes were held in and around the Parish Church of St Mary The Virgin in the centre of the town. Eccles developed around the 13th Century Church of St Mary The Virgin (picture as per the Wakes). There is some evidence of prehistoric human development, but the area was agricultural until the industrial revolution, when a textile industry was developed in the town(1750s). The arrival of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway (1830), the world's first passenger railway and the Bridgewater Canal (1761) the world's first navigable canal plus the arrival of the Manchester Ship Canal (1894) and the UKs first commercial municipal airfield Aerodrome at Barton by the Air Ministry have positioned Greater Eccles as a Global Transport Heritage Centre. Eccles also became the first municipal corporation in England to operate a motorised fire engine in 1901. It was supplied to Eccles Corporation by a local firm, the Protector Lamp and Lighting Co., also known for manufacturing Miners' Safety Lamps). SCENARIO - Ecclesiasts Celebrating Eccles celebrates the unique story of Greater Eccles (Cadishead, Irlam, Peel Green, Patricroft, Winton, Worsley, Monton, Ellesmere Park, Eccles & Barton) by developing a global platform which emphasizes the rich Cultural, Creative, Enterprise and Community heritage of the area and is twinned in this project with Celebrating Lowell (USA) and Celebrating Hadera (Israel) & Celebrating Kilmallock (Ireland). Celebrating Eccles focuses particularly on our cultural heritage by appreciating what it is and has been like to have been born, to live or to work in Eccles. See us on FaceBook & Twitter & LinkedIn. PHOTOGRAPHIC & VISUAL MEMOIRES: We encourage you to send us your photographs for inclusion in future editions, which include: Ecclesiasts (typically but not exclusively 18th, 19th & 20th century) representing our community in the past. Be Ecclesiast (typically but not exclusively 21st century) representing our community in the early part of this century. Go Ecclesiast (typically, but not exclusively ideas and images for the 21st century) representing our community in the middle and latter part of this century. WRITTEN & SPOKEN MEMOIRES: We are looking for contributions in words & pictures for what it has been like to have been 'Born, Live or Work in Greater Eccles' an area of 80,000 people and 3,000 businesses. Our Ecclesiasts Edition (typically but not exclusively covers the 18th, 19th & 20th centuries) and aims to 'represent' our community in the past. In this 'Ecclesiasts Edition we include 188 'old and older' photographs (all rights acknowledged) of our TEN Go Ecclesiast communities. Post pictures written memoires to us on our FaceBook Group: 'Celebrating Greater Eccles Community - Creativity - Enterprise - Culture'
