A walk around Dresden, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent Dresden & the Longton Freehold Land Society

location 8 on the map |tour map|

Elim Church
on the corner of Carlise and Cobden Street

Cobden Street named after Richard Cobden MP - the founder of the Anti-Corn Law League

Cobden Street to the left and Carlise Street to the right
The Park Inn public house in the backgrond.

photos: June 2001

The Elim Church was built on the site of a Methodist New Connexion Chapel which is shown on the 1878 OS map of Carlise Street.

The gate post of the original church can be seen still in place

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