Miles Platting
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Miles Platting is an inner-city district in north Manchester, England.
[edit] History
It was intensively developed in the 19th century providing homes for the industrial workforce. By the 1960s it was a slum area populated by a deprived largely white community. The housing redevelopments of the period have not succeeded in promoting greater social mobility or cohesion. The district lies along the A62 Oldham Road. Miles Platting had a railway station at the junction of the lines from Manchester Victoria to Oldham and Stalybridge, but this closed in the 1990s. The railway, which remains open for passenger traffic, separates Miles Platting from Collyhurst and Monsall.
Historically, much of the population of Miles Platting was of Irish Catholic or Italian descent, as evidenced by the large Corpus Christi Basilica on Varley Street. The Basilica has been served since 1889 by the Norbertine (Premonstratensian) Order and became an independent Canonry of the Order in 2004. It is planned to build a new monastery on the former school site behind the Basilica. [1]
[edit] Present day
A prominent building of Miles Platting is Victoria Mill, a huge former cotton mill which looms over the district and now houses offices and apartments. Its restoration was directed by Fr Dominic Kirkham of Corpus Christi.
From December 4, 1880 to the slum clearances of the 1970s, a Salvation Army corps existed here in Cash Street.
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