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I was brought up at Eastbrook Hall. I was Christened in Prospect Hall, but when that closed my family came to Eastbrook in 1969. Our family remained at the church until it closed in 1985 I think. By that point I was a student at Birmingham University. I remember, especially, the Youth Fellowship and the Revd Martin Turner. I think he was my favourite minister. I loved being in the Youth Fellowship. It was a great time to be young. I owe Eastbrook a great deal.
Please can all groups and contacts see if they have the following LWE programmes for the archives at the RAH. If so please contact me or direct to the RH archives . 1960 1973 1981 1985 Thank you Di Bonner ex Beaconthorpe Cleethorpes MAYC
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I can also add a couple missed off from the Hastings, Bexhill and Rye circuit if that might be appreciated.
I can offer a couple of corrections to the Harrow and Hillingdon Circuit information if it would be appreciated. Is there a way to contact the author.
Has any one connected to this site got spare London weekend programmes ? The RAH has an archive and I’m taking an item there. They have all programmes from LW except these years.
1960 1973 1981 1985 Can you help? I am trying as many places as possible 😉
The church was damaged in a storm it dislodged a large piece of masonry on the front of the roof above the porch. Also at one point the rear wall of the church had to be rebuilt.
Thank you for taking the time to scan this document in. It is a very handy snapshot of churches at a specific time with very useful information. It’s so hard to work out all the different branches of Methodism, so this really helps. As a new circuit archivist I am on a steep learning curve!
I remember the Revd Raymond Pearce from his time in Portsmouth. My mother was a life long Methodist and so I was sent to Sunday School at Drayton Methodist Church from the age of three, Rev Pearce officiated at my aunt and uncle’s wedding in the early 1960’s, I think at Purbrook Meth Church. I also remember Jackie from Northern grammar School. Delighted to read this aricle. I am now a supernumerary minister in Cornwall.
The Ainsworth Methodist Guild. On the 7th August 1956 a meeting was held for anyone interested in setting up a Methodist Guild a large number turned up and planning went ahead. A further meeting was held on the 2nd September and Secretaries for the four sections Devotional, Cultural, Christian Service and Social were appointed. and everyone was appointed to each of the four sections. When each section had filled there dates a syllabus was produced. each meeting on a Tuesday evening would begin with a hymn and prayer the chairperson then introducing the speaker tea and biscuits would be served at the end at a charge of threepence. Table Tennis would be allowed to follow for the young people. The Guild still continues but now meets on a Thursday afternoon. I wonder if any other Guild has been going for 68 Years?
Guild Holidays. I think there is now only Abbot Hall and Willersley Castle.
Children Spring fair opening about 1950
I am not sure that you are aware that there were two Methodist Chapels in Billy Row Green? The Primitive Chapel is in your list under Darlington Circuit, and comments correctly refer to that. It is now a house, and is at the bottom of The Green. However the Wesleyan Chapel, at the top of The Green, closed for worship circa 2001, was beautifully renovated and is now a house, is not listed at all!
It is lovely to see the Communion chair inscribed in memory to my great great grandfather Matthew Neale, and the table in memory of his son Herbert Horace Neale. Thanks for sharing the photos.
Thank you Ian for picking up on this typographic error, and for telling us about the other memorials to these six people. I will amend this page. We would be delighted to receive copies of your images of Woodlands Road for a new page about the chapel. If you felt that you might like to write the page for us we would also be very happy.The page would be on our other site, My Wesleyan Methodists, so you would need to use the link “Add your story” on the My Wesleyan Methodists home page.
This should read Woodlands Road not Winlands and the memorial is now in Grove Hill Methodist Church in Middlesbrough. Images of the building and one of the memorial are in my album on flickr and I would be only too happy to supply them freely to you for use on this site. This is the link to the album https://www.flickr.com/photos/bolckow/albums/72157627339712697
re: Patricia Gale (03/04/2020) About that time, I remember the male singer was Dickie Valentine and he had to untangle himself from the hands of screaming fans as he walked down the aisle into the arena. Steve Race always arranged the music and I expect he invited/persuaded the well-known tv & film stars too. Was that the same year that Shirley-Ann Field appeared?
Pastor W J Warren did indeed take part in both the stone laying ceremony and the opening service. He was a Methodist deacon who lived for a time in the minister’s house (manse) in Market Street, Long Sutton – the house is still there. I have a list of the donors of the inscribed stones and bricks but there is no “WW”. Either the list is incomplete or the initials are those of one of the local chapels who contributed i.e. Whaplode Washway. Lutton Marsh Chapel closed in 2022.
2nd October, Sunday In 1938 when he was 16 my father who lived in Brockley south London wrote this in his diary: Went to Sunday School in afternoon with Doug Latham Prayers for peace. Doug and I went forward and signed the Students Roll: – “To promise to serve Christ only”. We were carried by the Rev Arnold Bellwood’s enthusiasm. He is a violent and enthusiastic pacifist preacher, a Socialist, I am certain. Dad misses Rev Bamford’s gentlemanly preaching
this page is very moving indeed…..and also thought provoking…..’sic transit gloria mundi’…..such powerful items…now passing slowly into oblivion ……thankfully there is a photographich record at least…..
I have an old hymn book from here signed and dated 1870 by William Southall and Charles Southwell. If anyone knows any family who would like please let me know.
Hi Jonty, if it’s possible could I get little more information as my family lived at 17 Folly Fields. My Grandfather was in the First World War, Frank Douglas Hawkins. I have such fond memories playing at the little park at the back of the house. In fact my sister broke her arm jumping off the swing. And the outside toilet…. Amazing memories! Thank you
On reading the given information it would have been good to have also seen some photographs of your present Church / Chapel Interior ?
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