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  Can you help identify the people, the places, the date or the occasion?   Whitecroft Methodist Chapel 1928 and a portrait  
 



 

 

     
 
A Forest Chapel and a portrait
 
 
Courtesy of :
 Tracey Imm
     
 

Tracy wrote (November 2007):

Top photo:
The attached photo is of my aunty Pat James, deceased, have no idea who others are. The granddaughter of Jim Clements. She is 3rd left bottom row. Does anyone recognise the chapel or any of the people?.

Back (Row 2) -Left to right: 1 Ray Phipps, 2, 3, 4 (standing behind) Thomas Morse Price, 5, 6 Rev.George Edward Lawrence.
Front (Row 1): 1, 2 , 3 Pat James, 4 Rev. Sidney Lawrence, 5, 6.

Thanks to Paul Morgan who pointed out (November 2007) that this looks very much like Whitecroft Methodist Chapel in Wesley Road.

Bottom photo:
"This photo was in my grandma Irene James (previously Clements) belongings. I have no idea who the lady in the photo is and wondered if anyone could help?.

Thanks to Peter Essex who added (April 2008): "In case it's Whitecroft, it would be worth finding out the names of the chapel's ministers at about the time suggested by clothing, names etc.   When I was a child in North London, I'd say in the early 1950s, there was a retired Methodist minister living at Golders Green by the name of the Rev W Bertrand Smith.  My father's side of the family were from Lydney or thereabouts, so I remember it coming as quite a surprise to my father (Robert Essex, whose parents lived in Lydney at Forest Road) when the Rev Smith said he had some sort of connection with the chapel at Whitecroft.   I couldn't possibly recognise him from the photo but chances are if there were two ministers present, then one would have been the Superintendent minister who might have come from Lydney, Pillowell or Cinderford".

Thanks to Theo Lawrence who added (May 2008): "Back row far right: Rev George Edward Lawrence, in his probationary year, at Whitecroft Methodist Church, probably 1928. Back row, 3rd from right: Thomas Morse Price, of Westbury House, Pillowell, Church Steward at Whitecroft, and, later, father-in-law to George Lawrence. Minister seated in front row: Rev Sidney Lawrence, George's younger brother, visiting George in Forest of Dean.  He was a Congregational Church minister ...The occasion was a Mission at Whitecroft in 1928"

 
   
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