A view of the Methodist Chapel and two early 19th century houses on Brunswick Street. The Brunswick Methodist Chapel was occupied by L. Fisher and Co Ltd from 1983.
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A view of the Methodist Chapel and two early 19th century houses on Brunswick Street. The Brunswick Methodist Chapel was occupied by L. Fisher and Co Ltd from 1983.
AS a Salvation Army bandsman during the 60s and 70s, my memory of the Brunswick Methodist chapel, apart from its impressive frontage and architecture, was marching past the chapel from our Sunday night open-air service, on our way back to the Citadel in Palmerston Street (where it still is), and seeing the regular Methodist chapel goers mounting the steps to attend their Sunday evening service. Seemed to be plenty of worshippers in those not so long ago years.
Hello Stuart, hope you are well, must be over 40 years sinc we last met.
I remember the junior youth club with Gladys and Elsie Pinkney who ran it, those were happy days. We were married there on 21st Dec 1968 and my sister Margaret was also married there 1969. On Sunday school anniversaries we were given a little poem or short reading and we wore our sunday best, sometimes even new clothes. We children were on display in the choir stalls on this occasion.
Did your Dorothy get married there as well?
Hi, Do you remember Jackie Beall from Guides, from Oxbridge? Thanks
It was a Methodist Chapel. My family all went there. My wedding was in 1970 and was the 2nd last one to be held there. It was a lovely building inside but was the target of vandals outside. I went to Guides, Sunday School, Church and many other things held there. The rooms at the back of the church were many with a multitude of corridors. My dad was the Scout leader there and mum was the Guide leader. Does anyone remember the Sunday school anniversaries with Mr. Scaife? Happy Days!!
I attended the Guides which your mum ran and remember you being one of the members. I was only there for a short time but have a vivid memory of the heavy, circular skirts which were part of the uniform; being small then – and still small now – mine absolutely swamped me.
Many years of my young life were spent there too.My sister and I went to Sunday school every week. We were in the concerts and the Anniversaries. I was also in Brownies, Guides, and the Youth club too, run by the 2 Miss Pinkney sisters. There were lots of things to do in those days. I still have my 1st book, given to me on Prize Giving day dated 1945..I felt so sad when it was demolished. The same sad feelings watching all the rest of Stockton being demolished. “Is it all so neccessary ??”
Do you remember Jackie Beall from Guides? Thanks
Im sure this building was a synagogue at sometime in its history
There was a synagogue in the middle section of the East side of Hartington Road from the beginning of the 20th Century until early 1970s.
That synagogue is now a mosque,