Wigan Album
wigan churches
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Photo: RON HUNT
Item #: 33264
I wonder if the Scholes church was near where the (newish) one at the Scholes crossings is. Just a guess.
Or could it be the one that was bombed at the top of Greenough St?
Another guess ..
The clue is in the title: The Churches of Christ in the Wigan District. They appear to be a rather 'select' group of Evangelical Christian Churches -the Rodney Street being one where the building still exists, with the title above the entrance 'Free Church pf England'. I don't know about the others, but some may still be there under different names.
There's a new building of Church of Christ Scholes. I'm sure someone will know where it is. It looks like going towards Whelley but not sure.
item 997
I think the one in Hindley is up Argyle street off Atherton Road near to my old school.
The answers to all the questions of the one in Scholes are in the comments of this photo posted in the Album. https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=5&id=27691&gallery=LONGSHOOT+CHURCH+OF+CHRIST&offset=0
I remember the Church of Christ in Platt Bridge. I t was in Victoria Road. I remember it being used for various activities in the late 1970s, such as keep fit classes and Mother-and Toddler Group. I went with my son a few times.....he is almost 45 now!
That's it Cyril at the back of my mind was Longshoot before Whelley when I saw the new building replacing the old. For some reason it was the slant on the road.
Got there in the end.
Yes PW,the Hindley church is still there towards the top of Argyle Street,same side as the school.
Mitchell St Chapel is the one I know. All my Bradshaw family in that area attended there to be baptised, married & dispatched .
I used to go from Holland Moor on Sunday, have tea at my Auntie Annie's & go with them to chapel, Uncle Joe Bradshaw often preached there. Nice memories to have. Sadly Mitchell St Chapel has gone.
Earlestown ??????
I seem to have missed this one
The Scholes building was in Jackson Square,behind 162 Scholes
I suppose it was demolished in the great devastation of the 1960s,when virtually anything of interest in the town was ground to dust
The denomination was introduced to the town by Thomas Coop of factory fame.
The first church building was Rodney Street
They joined the United Reformed Church at some point