Originally Posted by JoanR (Post 1007186)

This may be a very elementary question but how do I locate specific photos on the site? I'm looking for the old New Jerusalem Church Abbey St. I attended the Sunday School on Hargreaves St. in the forties and fifties and I was married in the church.

I'd also like to see a photo of the Grammar School on Blackburn Rd. I looked in the Photo section but didn't see anything.

Thank you for any help.

Joan

Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 1007190)

I also against my will, had to attend during the 1930's to mid 1940's.
The church was built at a cost of 4000 quid 1848/49, on the site of an earlier church/school dated circa 1800.
Your New Jerusalem church was demolished in 1968, also in the same time period 3 other church's were demolished, Abbey St Wesleyans, Oak St Congies and the Church at the botton of Union St, all their war memorials have vanished.
The library should have photos

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 1007191)

New Jerusalem wasn't demolished till the new road was built in the eighties.

GENUKI: Birtwistle St New Jerusalem, Accrington, Lancashire genealogy

The library's no good to Joan, she lives in Canada.

Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 1007194)

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 1007199)

Yes I am - I'll chip in if I want, it's an open forum.

Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 1007207)

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 1007216)

I would oblige except I haven't a clue what you're on about.

Originally Posted by Atarah (Post 1007239)

Re item 5, dont know why the name BIRTWISTLE ST NEW JERUSALEM is mentioned on Genuki. The new church is on Hargreaves Street, always has been???

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 1007312)

It does say in the article

A new smaller modern building was erected in Hargreaves St on the site of the old Sunday School and was opened in September 1985 and remains in use.
The new building is not built on the site of the old school, it is on the site of no's 1 to 7 Hargreaves St formerly occupied by 1 Mortimer, 3 Mrs Parker, 5 Gill's & 7 was Jack Sagar the Church & School caretaker.

Originally Posted by JoanR (Post 1007372)

My thanks to everyone for all this help. Susie and Margaret, thank you for your links. I could spend hours looking at these old photographs, and Atarah, thank you for posting the photos. Bob, I'll send you a PM about the Grammar School.

New Jerusalem was a very large church, or so it seemed to me, and it was lovely inside. I'm sorry it's demolished, but I suppose the congregation had dwindled and couldn't support a church of that size. I didn't know about the dry rot.

When I went there, Mr. Hill, Rev. G.T. Hill, was the minister, and I have faint memories of a Mr. Edge before him. Retlaw, you might put me right, if I'm mistaken. Susie, was the Central Prep. School in the same Hargreaves St. Building as the Sunday School? Two of my neighbours attended, twins, Leo and Frances Warren, but they may have been there before you. They lived on Sandy Lane.

Joan

Originally Posted by JoanR (Post 1007372)

My thanks to everyone for all this help. Susie and Margaret, thank you for your links. I could spend hours looking at these old photographs, and Atarah, thank you for posting the photos. Bob, I'll send you a PM about the Grammar School.

New Jerusalem was a very large church, or so it seemed to me, and it was lovely inside. I'm sorry it's demolished, but I suppose the congregation had dwindled and couldn't support a church of that size. I didn't know about the dry rot.

When I went there, Mr. Hill, Rev. G.T. Hill, was the minister, and I have faint memories of a Mr. Edge before him. Retlaw, you might put me right, if I'm mistaken. Susie, was the Central Prep. School in the same Hargreaves St. Building as the Sunday School? Two of my neighbours attended, twins, Leo and Frances Warren, but they may have been there before you. They lived on Sandy Lane.

Joan