Looking at buildings on St Helen’s Road

Today we went back to St Helen’s Road to look at the buildings. We looked at Miah’s first, it is a restaurant now but it used to be a church. We decided it was quite old. We think it’s a good idea that it is a restaurant now as it is being used as it was empty before. We then walked further along the road. There was a block of flats that we think may have been a hospital before. It had a clock tower on top which made it look like a church at first but we decided that it probably wasn’t. We saw the Methodist church and found out it was built in 1873 it is still in use and is the only one that is still used as a church. Next we saw the old church that has been converted into flats. It is a beautiful building with a classical Greek design with the pillars but there was no plaque on it to find out how old it was. Finally we looked at the large old church which is now having money being raised to convert it into a mosque. Once it is finished it is going to be a community centre and have lots of activities going on.