Wigan Album

Zion Methodist Church, Liverpool Road, 1950s. Back row from left: Hazel Lunn, Martha Waterworth (small lady); ?, ?, ?, Joan Eastham, ?, Audrey Clark. Front row 2nd left, Maurice Evans; John Dale. 4th from right May Gwilliam, then Beatrice Latham, unknown boy,then at end Arnold Simpson.

I like Methodist Churches, (or chapels as some were known). There is something homely about them. We went to a 1940s event at Beamish Open Air Museum a few years ago and they have a Methodist Church there with flowers in vases and Walking Day Banners leaning against the wall and there are even hymns playing as you walk round.....the hymns that were sung at Rose Bridge Methodists in Ince where I was christened and where I attended Sunday School. I found it very peaceful and very moving.