Star Hall was a Mission Hall in Ancoats,

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History

The mission hall was founded by Francis Crossley (of Crossley Engines, later

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) to meet the spiritual needs of his factory workers and opened in 1889. On his death in 1897, his daughter continued the mission until 1919. At this time the building and mission were handed over to the Salvation Army. It included the Crossley Hospital, a

maternity hospital A maternity hospital specializes in caring for women during pregnancy and childbirth. It also provides care for newborn infants, and may act as a centre for clinical training in midwifery and obstetrics. Formerly known as lying-in hospitals, most ...

, which opened in the 1920s and closed in the 1940s.

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