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Summer Hill Wesleyan Chapel Icknield Street West later Monument Road

I don't want to throw a spanner in the works but...
I did a "google search for Viv's photograph and this is what came up

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Does this mean that the number identifed as 158 is actaully a very blurred 398 and we have identified the wrong church?
 
pjmburns said:
I don't want to throw a spanner in the works but...
I did a "google search for Viv's photograph and this is what came up

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Does this mean that the number identifed as 158 is actaully a very blurred 398 and we have identified the wrong church?
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i think there is a very good chance you are correct jan...i was not convinced vivs photo was taken in icknield st at no 158 the properties look far too well built to be there...also if you look at your map post 11 it shows the houses to the left of the church as having front gardens as do the ones in vivs photo

lyn
 
It seemed to me that the footprint of brummy-lads map post #2 fitted photo #1. And it's named as a 'church' on post #7 map.

Can anyone find the address (street name) of the Adult School Social Club as per brummy-lads pointer in post #7 ? Did the Church run an Adult School next to the church ?
 
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I did this list, tracing names and numbers across the years, in 1883 it was a vaccination centre.
 

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Vivienne14 said:
It seemed to me that the footprint of brummy-lads map post #2 fitted photo #1. And it's named as a 'church' on post #7 map.

Can anyone find the address (street name) of the Adult School Social Club as per brummy-lads pointer in post #7 ? Did the Church run an Adult School next to the church ?
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i have been searching the newspapers viv for anything on the adult school social club but nothing so far

lyn
 
Found this on Facebook. Seems the Steward Street Adult School came out of the Gospel Temperance movement - meetings being held on land behind Summer Hill Wesleyan Church on Monument Road. So we have a link, and it gives us the location of Monument Road. Screenshot_20260905_185815_Chrome.jpg
 
interesting 1873 map posted by brummy lad on the monument road thread..it shows icknield st east and west and the 2 chapels we have been discussing thanks john

lyn

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Nice, helpful map thanks brummy-lad. An observation re the map, the Icknield Street East chapel seems to be quite some way set back from the road, whereas in photo #1, the chapel isn't very far off the road. The chapel marked on Icknield Street West (further south) looks closer to the road, more like the position in the photo.

Both chapels are quite close to Steward Street !! Although I suspect the Icknield Street West chapel was marginally closer.
 
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brummy-lad said:
I was thinking that the one shown set back was the Summer Hill (Primitive Wesleyan) Chapel that had been demolished. To be honest I think I've fried my brains trying to get my head around it all.
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yes you are correct john...the chapel at icknield st east was set back from the road and was demolished..the chapel in our photo was at icknield st west and was set on the pavement as shown in the map and the photo also now demolished...

lyn
 
looking again at johns great map post 45 its amazing to see just how many churches/chapels there was around at that time..sadly most have gone now..i thought that i knew that area pretty well but we never stop learning about our history and all from one photo

lyn
 
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