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| The history
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| Rev. W. Worth Hoare, first Vicar of St Paul's Church
1840 - 1869 |
Rev. W. Worth Hoare, first Vicar of St Paul's Church
1840 - 1869 |
Rev. James Mosey Cranswick, D.D. Vicar of St Paul's
1869 - 1880 |
Rev. James Mosey Cranswick, D.D. Vicar of St Paul's
1869 - 1880 |
Rev. Richard Holgate Brown, MA,
Vicar of St Paul's 1880-1887 |
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| Rev. Richard Holgate Brown, MA, Vicar of St Paul's
1880-1887 |
Rev. T. H. Sheriff, M. A., Vicar of St Paul's Church
1887 - 1911 |
Rev. T. H. Sheriff, M. A., Vicar of St Paul's Church
1887 - 1911
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from Tameside Libraries'
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Rev. Bertram Benjamin Slater, MA, Vicar of St Paul's
1924-1950 |
Rev. Basil Hamer, MA, LL.B.,Hon. Canon of Chester, Rural Dean of Mottram, Vicar of St Paul's 1951-1964 |
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Brynley
James Lewis,BA,
Vicar of St Paul's
1965-1979 |
Rev.
Victor I Wilson
Vicar of St. Paul's 1980-1988 |
Rev Paul Leslie Robinson, BA, Vicar of St Paul's
1988-2000. The bench he is sitting on in the full picture was part of the
church's parting gift to Paul. |
Rev Richard Henry Lawry, MA.
Vicar of St Paul's 2002 - 2009 |
Rev Felix Annancy, curate at St Paul's during
the 1990s |
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| The new Mothers' Union Banner - Mrs Knipe, Mrs Ranson and Mrs Horsfall (Grimes) |
Saint Paul's church in 1896 |
Drawing of St Paul's as it was
at the time of its consecration |
Saint Paul's - from the British
Critic, 1840 |
Map showing the area around St
Paul's in the 1920s - Copley Mills, Albion Mill, Staley New Mill are shown
as also is Brookfield House, the home of James Wilkinson of Copley Mills
and one of the first supporters of St Paul's |
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| Number on end of pew possibly used in pew rent system.
Pew rent accounts exist up to the 1950s. |
Dedication in copy of Prayer Book (strangely, this
edition was published in Wales) presented to Sidney Walton possibly before
he entered the armed forces. |
Saint Paul's Industrial Schools during the Cotton
Famine : school for adults and the shoemaking class |
Labels from Sunday School prizes. 1928-1942. One of
the prizes was a copy of the Prayer Book and Church Hymns bound together. Church Hymns (published by SPCK) was the
hymn book then in use at St Paul's. Thanks to
Doreen Ashworth for supplying these. |
Stamp albums used to record attendance at the morning
Sunday School. A stamp was added to the album each wee. Thanks
to Doreen Ashworth for lending these. |
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| Print of Richard Tattersall's drawing of the church at the time of its consecration |
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Service sheet for the service of thanksgiving for the armistice and victory at the end of World War 1 |
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| Children's Union - presentation to Queen Mary at Buckingham Palace 1946. St Paul's Children's Union supported a cot in a children's hospital in Southport. |
Children's Union trip to Buckingham Palace - in the Royal Mews. The man in a top hat is a Palace official |
Children's Union trip to London to make a presentation to the Duchess of Gloucester (?) |
Children's Union - presentation to Queen Mary at Buckingham Palace 1946 |
Baptism certificate signed by Canon Slater |
