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Acocks Green Wesleyan Chapel Methodist Church

A well-kept church on Shirley Road, corner of Botteville Road. The chapel/church must have been extended/redeveloped at some point to the right along Shirley Road (possibly in the 1920s?). Inside is a copper memorial commemorating 47 men who served in WW1. Screenshot_20260904_142543_Chrome.jpgScreenshot_20260906_082438_Chrome.jpgScreenshot_20260906_082934_Maps.jpgScreenshot_20260906_083004_Maps.jpgScreenshot_20260906_082154_Chrome.jpgScreenshot_20260906_082308_Chrome.jpgScreenshot_20260906_082247_Chrome.jpg
 
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3 of those marked with a * on the names from the memorial are commemorated in a stained glass window

In 1919 the Trustees approved the plan to erect memorial windows in the church. Unfortunately, no records can be traced of their designer or installer. It is understood that initially the three windows were placed either in the back wall or the side wall of the church and moved to their present position in the chancel when the church was remodelled in 1927. They commemorate:

Lowson Brown. Not intimately connected with the church, but the son of William Lowson Brown, choir member and Trustee, who lived in Westley Road, Acocks Green.


Ernest Daw. Eldest son in the Daw family of five boys and two girls. He served in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and was one of the thousands killed at Paschendaele.


Edward Malins. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham. He had been a registrar in the Sunday School and was the son of Joseph Malins, first headmaster of Yardley Grammar School.
 
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A wonderful way of remembering those three local men at home as it'd be rare and most unlikely for fallen soldiers' remains to have been brought home for burial At the same time, it must have been a painful reminder for the families of the other men (especially those who lost multiple members of their family), to see the three memorial windows on every church visit.
 
A bit more digging and it seems the tablet shows those who fought. They were volunteers from the church. Seems the three commemorated with stained glass windows were the ones who died. I didn't know such tablets showed those who fought and survived. You learn something new every day.

From the Acocks Green History site.
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A bit more digging and it seems the tablet shows those who fought. They were volunteers from the church. Seems the three commemorated with stained glass windows were the ones who died. I didn't know such tablets showed those who fought and survived. You learn something new every day.

From the Acocks Green History site.
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That's what I thought as I couldn't find some (didn't look for all) of the other listrd on CWGC site)
 
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