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Laurain Walters (Nee Carrier) Anne Dawtry, Florrie King, Baby Janet King, Mrs Evans, Edith Carrier (nee Carr), Winnie Clarke (nee Carr), Violet King, Gill Kirkham, Valerie Clarke,Margaret Armstrong, Janet Pittaway</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="89a3b9b0.jpg" border=0 width="571" height="411" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Wedding of John(Jack) Williams of Benson Road in 1939 at St. Chrysostums Church.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="114b3f40.jpg" border=0 width="435" height="500" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="116b1e10.png" border=0 width="433" height="481" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>*******************************************************************************************************************************</B></div> <div> <B>St Chrysostoms</B></div> <div> My mom had 3 cousins who were baptised at St. Chrysostoms in the 1930's. The family name was Rundle, and they lived at 42 Don Street, which my mom remembers as being quite poor even by the standards of those times. She herself (maiden name Pittaway) spent a lot of her childhood in Bacchus Road and Aberdeen Street.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> From Gordon Smith. 24/10/02</div> <div> <B>****************************************************</B></div> <div> <B>St Chrysostoms</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > church was a rough old church and if we had had our way we would have married at St Michaels but they refused. I cannot think of worse surroundings than that church had, the corrugated metal facade of the woodyard opposite, scrapyards and derelict land with old metal and wood fencing alongside and a railway bridge 50 yards away and completed to perfection with all the railings removed and weeds covering every spare space - a scene of sheer beauty in 1958. </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >Norman Beech 09/10/02</FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>********************************************************************************************************************************</B></div> <div> <B>St Michael's (Mickey's)</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> Strictly speaking is in Handsworth although it can clearly be seen from <B>Benson Road School </B>- In the late fifties the Vicar was the Reverend Ronald Jennings who went on to become Bishop of Gambia. He proudly displayed his Bishop's spats and gatters when he returned to officiate at my brother's wedding in 1963 at St Michael's (Jennings was a personal friend of my brother's in-laws).  In the 1950s the Rev Jennings erected tall iron railings around the church grounds to which my father said to him "You want to get the buggers in there not keep them out".  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >Stuart Waldron</FONT></div> <div> ****************************************************************************************************************************</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >Cromwell Hall</FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >,</FONT> an evangelistic mission which was in <B>Heath Green Road</B>, off Dudley Road, Winson Green. The Hall was opened in 1894 and remained active for about 100 years. At its peak, up to 400 children attended Sunday School each week.</div> <div> See Heath Green Road for more details <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >25/06/03</FONT></div> <div> ***************************************************************************************************************************</div> <div> CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH (the INSTITUTE) corner Lodge Road and Lee Street</div> <div> <IMG SRC="0d75e090.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="265" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="31eb8090.jpg" border=0 width="184" height="265" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> <div> Photo of the church taken in 1973 and Mr Williams, he and his wife gave a life time of service to the church and the local community</div> <div> Mr Williams photo supplied by<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#00FFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >Maureen Pollock (Harwood)</FONT></div> <div> *********************************************************************************************************************</div> <div> Christ Church Summerfield (<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >another nearby district</FONT>)<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >16/09/06</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="71dc21f0.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="287" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Christ Church ladywood?  photo taken in 1957-58 church stands on corner of </div> <div> Gillott Rd and SummerfieldRd </div> <div> Photo thanks to</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>Frank Thornhill</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="71ec21d0.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="285" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> 20/09/06</div> <div> TWO postcards of CHRIST CHURCH sent to us from <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >Mac Joseph,</FONT> the first one is dated 1912 and was posted from 91 Summerfield Crescent, but there is no date on the other one.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Mac Joseph is web master for  the</div> <div> <A HREF="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/macjoseph/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/macjoseph/"><I>Old Ladywood</I></A><I>  </I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFF66" FACE="Arial" ><I>web site</I></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="71fc2ee0.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="238" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> ************************************************************************************************************************</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>