only allowed to build Bury Avenue, the rest of the plot was devoted to Manley Park County Primary School, and a recreation ground, now known as Manley Park, (colloquially known as 'the rec' until the 1980s). After the phase of further developments on the Egerton Estate, the school expanded into the Crimsworth Annexe, a large house and garden at the west end of College Road. St Margaret's CE Primary School on Withington Road occupies the pre-Second World War site of Whalley Range High School. The playing fields at the rear had formerly belonged to St Bede's College. Hospitals In Russell Road was the Spire Manchester Hospital (private), formerly run by BUPA. It moved to West Didsbury in 2016. The site once occupied by the Nello James Centre (named after C. L. R. James) had been a Red Cross Hospital, dating from the First World War. Cultural associations The poet Jane Crewdson lived for part of her life in Whalley Range. The writer Dodie Smith spent part of her early life at Claremont, Wood Road, as she records in her autobiography Look Back With Love (1974). The district has a number of cultural associations, including: Steve Hopkins, record producer and keyboardist of John Cooper Clarke, Nico, the Invisible Girls and the Archangel Orchestra, lives in Whalley Range and has an art studio there. The Smiths' eponymous album mentions Whalley Range in the song "Miserable Lie", with the lyrics "What do we get for our trouble and pain? / Just a rented room in Whalley Range". Nigel Pivaro, actor and journalist, was baptised at English Martyrs RC Church in 1960. Les Dawson, comedian and writer, died at the Spire Hospital on 10 June 1993. Michael McGoldrick (born 26 November 1971, Manchester, England) is a folk musician who plays Irish flute, uilleann pipes, low whistle and bodhran. McGoldrick is the composer of the very popular tune "Farewell to Whalley Range which he has recorded with John McSherry on their album At First Light, and on the Capercaille album Nadurra. Notable people John Prettyjohns VC, the first Royal Marine to be awarded the Victoria Cross, was subsequently the Steward of the Whalley Range Bowling Club on Demesne Road. Bishop Geoffrey Ignatius Burke MA (1913-1999) was an English Roman Catholic bishop. The band James formed here in 1982. Comedian Jason Manford grew up in Whalley Range and went to St. Margaret's Primary School on Withington