New Jerusalem Church Abbey St. - Page 2

Retlaw · 05-08-2012, 16:12

[quote=susie123;1007312]It does say in the article

A new smaller modern building was erected in Hargreaves St on the site of the old Sunday School and was opened in September 1985 and remains in use.
The new building is not built on the site of the old school, it is on the site of no's 1 to 7 Hargreaves St formerly occupied by 1 Mortimer, 3 Mrs Parker, 5 Gill's & 7 was Jack Sagar the Church & School caretaker.

susie123 · 05-08-2012, 16:20

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Originally Posted by susie123

It does say in the article

A new smaller modern building was erected in Hargreaves St on the site of the old Sunday School and was opened in September 1985 and remains in use.
The new building is not built on the site of the old school, it is on the site of no's 1 to 7 Hargreaves St formerly occupied by 1 Mortimer, 3 Mrs Parker, 5 Gill's & 7 was Jack Sagar the Church & School caretaker.

Yes that is correct, the Sunday school was further up Hargreaves Street, Having been there every day for school I do remember that.

JoanR · 05-08-2012, 17:59

My thanks to everyone for all this help. Susie and Margaret, thank you for your links. I could spend hours looking at these old photographs, and Atarah, thank you for posting the photos. Bob, I'll send you a PM about the Grammar School.

New Jerusalem was a very large church, or so it seemed to me, and it was lovely inside. I'm sorry it's demolished, but I suppose the congregation had dwindled and couldn't support a church of that size. I didn't know about the dry rot.

When I went there, Mr. Hill, Rev. G.T. Hill, was the minister, and I have faint memories of a Mr. Edge before him. Retlaw, you might put me right, if I'm mistaken. Susie, was the Central Prep. School in the same Hargreaves St. Building as the Sunday School? Two of my neighbours attended, twins, Leo and Frances Warren, but they may have been there before you. They lived on Sandy Lane.

Joan

susie123 · 05-08-2012, 18:05

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Originally Posted by JoanR

My thanks to everyone for all this help. Susie and Margaret, thank you for your links. I could spend hours looking at these old photographs, and Atarah, thank you for posting the photos. Bob, I'll send you a PM about the Grammar School.

New Jerusalem was a very large church, or so it seemed to me, and it was lovely inside. I'm sorry it's demolished, but I suppose the congregation had dwindled and couldn't support a church of that size. I didn't know about the dry rot.

When I went there, Mr. Hill, Rev. G.T. Hill, was the minister, and I have faint memories of a Mr. Edge before him. Retlaw, you might put me right, if I'm mistaken. Susie, was the Central Prep. School in the same Hargreaves St. Building as the Sunday School? Two of my neighbours attended, twins, Leo and Frances Warren, but they may have been there before you. They lived on Sandy Lane.

Joan

Thank you Joan. Yes, CPS was in the Sunday school building. I was there till 1957, from when the school located from Oak Street Cong sometime at the beginning of the fifties. I was only four when I started so not sure what year they moved but I have a vivid memory of my first day at school at Oak Street!

Your neighbours' names are not familiar but they could have been above me.

Retlaw · 05-08-2012, 18:22

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Originally Posted by JoanR

My thanks to everyone for all this help. Susie and Margaret, thank you for your links. I could spend hours looking at these old photographs, and Atarah, thank you for posting the photos. Bob, I'll send you a PM about the Grammar School.

New Jerusalem was a very large church, or so it seemed to me, and it was lovely inside. I'm sorry it's demolished, but I suppose the congregation had dwindled and couldn't support a church of that size. I didn't know about the dry rot.

When I went there, Mr. Hill, Rev. G.T. Hill, was the minister, and I have faint memories of a Mr. Edge before him. Retlaw, you might put me right, if I'm mistaken. Susie, was the Central Prep. School in the same Hargreaves St. Building as the Sunday School? Two of my neighbours attended, twins, Leo and Frances Warren, but they may have been there before you. They lived on Sandy Lane.

Joan

Mr Edge was the Vicar of the Church, the main school, building on the odd numbered side of Hargreaves St, was used by the Home Guard during the war, after that it was mostly used by the Robert Cunliffe Orchestra & other organisations as a meeting place. The Sunday School, was facing nu 19 to 25 Hargreaves St, and was at one time used by Williams Tool Merchants, that building is still there.

Retlaw · 05-08-2012, 18:31

New Jerusalem was a very large church, or so it seemed to me, and it was lovely inside. I'm sorry it's demolished, but I suppose the congregation had dwindled and couldn't support a church of that size. I didn't know about the dry rot.
I watched them when they were taking the roof off, and exposed all the beams & rafters inside, they piled a lot of the stuff in Briggs Yard, next to the old air raid shelter, the main beams were made from yellow pine, that was the timber used in the pattern making industry, lovely wood to work with, but it was just sold on as scrap, all the fancy pinacles got smashed, yes it was a big church one of the biggest in Accrington.