Whitecroft Methodist Chapel 1928 and a portrait
Courtesy of: Tracey Imm. Uploaded:
Whitecroft Methodist Chapel
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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