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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 2260 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Browney Lane Methodist Church, Browney Colliery

Covering Dates: 1928-1951

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  • Miscellaneous documents
    • Browney Lane Methodist Church (Ref: D/X 2260/)
    • Church site (Ref: D/X 2260/1)
    • Trustees (Ref: D/X 2260/2-3)
    • Sunday School (Ref: D/X 2260/4)

Catalogue Contents

Browney Lane Methodist Church (Ref: D/X 2260/)Church site (Ref: D/X 2260/1)Ref: D/X 2260/1

12 June 1928 (1) Rt Hon Gustavus William 9th Viscount Boyne and 3rd Baron Brancepeth (2) Most Honourable Lawrence Marquis of Zetland, the Honourable Eustace Scott Hamilton Russell of Stanmore Hall, Bridgnorth, Shropshire and John Wentworth Garneys Bond of Creech Grange, Wareham, Dorset, esquire, Trustees (3) Luke Hall Forster of Langley Bridge, Langley Moor, mineral water manufacturer, George Luke of Onslow Terrace, Langley Moor, check weigher, James Tynen of Langley Bridge, Langley Moor, retired overman, Jack Morris of Littleburn Lane, Langley Moor, colliery proprietor, William Brooks of High Street, Langley Moor, general dealer, John Stephenson of Esh Winning, retired insurance official, James Halliday of Front Street, Browney, deputy overman, Ernest James Hitchcock of the Post Office, Browney, mine worker, Daglish Briggs of 6 Harle Street, Browney, deputy overman, Thomas Briggs of 96 Middle Street, Browney, William Briggs of 11 Browney Lane, Browney, miner, Thomas Hannaby of 144 Office Street, Browney, miner, Charles Seymour Robbins of Browney Lane, newsagent, Ernest Hewson Grocock of 18 North View, Meadowfield, clerk, Alfred Birchnall of 33 Front Street, Browney, miner, Hugh Davies of 1 North View, Meadowfield, fish merchant, Peter Wood of 60 Frederick Street North, Meadowfield, retired, John Parkin Neasham of 13 South View, Meadowfield, clerk, Frederick Morgan of 19 North View, Meadowfield, clerk and John Bell of 26 Harle Street, Browney, colliery official [Trustees of the Church] (4) Rev George Davies, Superintendent Preacher of the Primitive Methodist circuit Conveyance (photocopy) by (1) and (2) at direction of (1) and the agreement of (4) to (3) of land at Browney Lane (plan included), Browney Colliery, as a site for a Primitive Methodist Church Consideration: £5.00
(5 papers)

Trustees (Ref: D/X 2260/2-3)Ref: D/X 2260/2/1

Memorandum of choice and appointment of new Trustees of the Methodist (formerly Primitive Methodist) Chapel and Schoolroom at Browney Lane, Browney Colliery, 22 July 1940
(1 paper)

Ref: D/X 2260/2/2

Memorandum of choice and appointment of new Trustees of the Methodist (formerly Primitive Methodist) Chapel and Schoolroom at Browney Lane, Browney Colliery, 24 April 1951
(1 paper)

Ref: D/X 2260/3

Declaration by the Trustees of the Browney Lane Methodist (formerly Primitive Methodist) Church, Browney Colliery, adopting the New Model Deed pursuant to Section 17 of the Methodist Church Union Act 1929, 8 June 1940
(1 paper)

Sunday School (Ref: D/X 2260/4)Ref: D/X 2260/4

Photograph of Browney Lane Methodist Chapel Sunday School, 1932
(1 photograph, 13cm x 9cm, black and white)



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