Old Meeting House & Sunday Schools Dudley Street

[Vivienne14]

These photos are from an 1882 book (for sale on eBay) to record the disappearance of the Old Meeting House and Sunday Schools when the land was acquired by the North-Western Railway Co. Can we pinpoint the chapel and the school buildings on a map please ? Slightly confused about where exactly this was. Presumably it was connected with the New Meeting House on Bull Street ? Viv.

 

[Vivienne14]

These were the provisions for the removal and transfer of those buried at the Old Meeting House as set out in the Birmingham Daily Post on 6/12/1881. This was part of the agreement to make way for the North Western Railway development.

Viv.

 

[Vivienne14]

An extract from an article in the Birmingham Daily Post announcing the purchase of the Meeting House and burial ground.

Viv.

 

[Astoness]

thanks viv thats very interesting....stands a chance that those buried at the bond st chapel were moved to witton..

lyn

 

[Astoness]

i dont know if this has been posted before but here is a list of all the burials that took place at new meeting house..have to keep scrolling down as it is quite a long list of names

Birmingham Old Meeting House Burials 1807-1858

 

[mikejee]

Details about the Old Meeting house, including reproductions of many of the gravestones, is in "Memorials of the old Meeting house", complied after the place was sol to the railway Co.

 

[sospiri]

Useful list, Lyn, though none of my names are there, except a TAYLOR, and there are thousands of those!

Maurice

 

[Astoness]

yes maurice it may prove useful for some people...cant see any of my lot on the list but i have saved it for future ref...

lyn

 

[mikejee]

Looking at Viv's first post , below is a map c 1824 showing the position of the Old ~Meeting house