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Originally Posted by Lost in Cornwall

The chapel near the Forts Arms was opened in 1849 as Oakenshaw Baptist. The chapel which was on the corner of Blackburn Road and Atlas Street was opened in 1888 and I believe was a replacement for the first chapel. I would be surprised if they kept the name when they moved up the top end but it's not impossible.

My grandparents started worshipping at Barnes Square Wesleyan (as it then was) when they moved from Padiham in 1913 because there wasn't a United Methodist Chapel in Clayton and my mother worshipped there all her life, having been born in Barnes Street in 1915. The minister at Barnes Square during the First World War was Rev James Thomas East. His son Kingsley was killed in action and his name certainly appeared on a memorial in the chapel that was knocked down around 1980 although I'm not sure he was resident in Clayton at the time of the war. If his name appears on the Roll of Honour that would prove it was from Barnes Square Wesleyan.

Kingsley East his name is on a bronze plaque in Oakenshaw Chapel. That was the report in the Observer. There was also a portrate of him unveiled in the school. His address is given as Park View Clayton.
His name is on the R-O-H which I have a photograph of, the one that was recently removed from the chapel that was recently closed. The bronze plaque has also been removed.