Re: Sacred Heart Church
Thank you all for the effort and time to assemble the pictures of this sad event. I passed through Accrington in late 2005 to find the Grammar School and the Sacred Heart both gone. I remember the SH holding Sunday mass at 7, 8, 9, 10 and High Mass at 11. From 8 onwards they were pretty much sold out and late comers sometimes had to stand on the steps outside.
I think there was a large carry over of religious thankfulness for deliverance from World War II. Time, TV and Apathy all took their toll on attendance. I was sad to find the place flattened and now I know how it happened.
May your soul be in Heaven a half hour before the Devil demolishes your church!
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