MB2/BSP/6/4233

Commemorative album presented in memory of Ella Farnsworth Handscomb. Contains photographs of St Paul's Methodist Church, Harpur Street and Newnham Avenue Methodist Church as follows:

c.1970

From: 1966 To: 1975

- exterior of Church and Sunday School building viewed from Harpur Street; - view of interior from pulpit end of gallery; - pulpit, communion table (given by Charles Blakeway), organ and roundel on front of gallery (feature of interior decoration carried out by late Harry Manning); - organ (presented by Sir Frederick Howard in 1869); - memorial to members of congregation who died in World Wars, formerly on north wall: Percy Ayres, Charles Buck, Cecil C Bell, Albert D M Chapman; A Frederick Clare, Sidney Lawrence Cook, William Freeman, James Humberstone, George Andrew Howell, Arthur Cecil Maxey, Archibald Nutting, Henry W Nutting (1914-1918); Norman W Hull, Leslie E Rainbird (1939-1945); - memorial tablets on outside of building flanking front entrance: (1) to Catherine, wife of John Isitt, d.1824 aged 43, their daughters Mary Ann d.1817 aged 10 and Jane d.1826 aged 10, and three children who died in infancy; (2) Mary wife of Isaac Wale, d.1828 aged 65?, and Isaac Wale d.183[illeg] aged 64; - plaque in entrance lobby commemorating service of William Ford, caretaker for 30 years through two world ward, erected by the canteen committee; - memorial tablet to Rev James Hedges, Wesleyan minister d. 1849 aged 32; - memorial tablet to Elizabeth and John Ranshall, both d.1824 aged 71, and their grandaughter Elizabeth Rowe, d.1825 aged 2 years and 9 months; - memorial tablet to John Isitt of The Priory, Bedford, d.1854 aged 71 and his widow Elizabeth, d.1875, aged 82; - memorial tablet to Rev Maximilian Wilson, Wesleyan minister, d.1857 aged 80; - memorial tablet to Rev Peter Samuel, d.1874, age 71; - memorial tablet to Rev Robert Maxwell, d.1879, aged 69; - official opening of dual-purpose Church Hall in Newnham Avenue, 25 June 1953

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Handscomb, Ella Farnsworth,
Blakeway, Charles,
Manning, Harry,
Howard, Frederick,
Ayres, Percy,
Buck, Charles,
Bell, Cecil C,
Chapman, Albert D M,
Clare, A Frederick,
Cook, Sidney Lawrence,
Freeman, William,
Humberstone, James,
Howell, George Andrew,
Maxey, Arthur Cecil,
Nutting, Archibald,
Nutting, Henry W,
Hull, Norman W,
Rainbird, Leslie, E,
Isitt, Catherine,
Isitt, John,
Isitt, Mary Ann,
Isitt, Jane,
Isitt, Elizabeth,
Ford, William,
Hedges, James,
Ranshall, Elizabeth,
Ranshall, John,
Rowe, Elizabeth,
Wilson, Maximilian,
Samuel, Peter,
Maxwell, Robert

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