Longsight Methodist Church and School Archive Material

We have recently received a donation of archive material mainly relating to Longsight Methodist Church and School.  Some photographs from the collection are reproduced below.

#1 - Brook Bank (undated)

#2 - Harwood Wesleyan Chapel Booklet

#3 - Harwood Tennis Players est. 1920s

#4 - Barlow & Jones Tennis Team

#5 - Barlow & Jones Tennis Team

#6 -Wedding Party*

#7 - Wedding Party*

#8 - Grave design 1925
Albert E. Platt & Sons

#9 - Alfred Brooks

#10 -West Brown

* The two wedding photographs look very similar to those posted earlier this year of Mary Ann Hargreaves and Thomas Roberts at Bradshaw Brow on September 2nd 1911, and are probably the same event.

Summary of Contents

1. Photograph of Brook Bank
2. Hon Secretary Correspondence Carbon Copies. Copies of letters sent 500 pages. 1905 - 1926
3. Old fashioned clip board - Correspondence relating to Longsight Methodist Church and School  1951 - 1955.   Approx. 80 letters.
4. Expanding file 1920s - 1960s
1. Bolton Corporation - Letters relating to water charges from Bolton Corporation, 1929
2. Harwood Wesleyan Bazaar 1916 accounts
3. Cemetery - (i) Various correspondence 1930-51 about 30 items (ii) Harwood Wesleyan Chapel Burial Ground Rules & Regulations 1920 (iii) Rules and Fees of Tottington Road Methodist Church Harwood 1932
4. Caretaker - Boiler Insurance documentation 1949 - 1954
5. Electricity dept. charges, 1948
6. Grave plans - about 75 items design plans for grave stones 1920s - 1950s
7. Insurance - various insurance certificates 1930s
8. Inland Revenue - correspondence 1930s - 1950s
9. Organ - about 30 items 1930s - 1950s
10. School Trust - About 90 items.  1920s - 1960s.  Includes newspaper cutting - Opening of Turton Harwood Methodist School - Sat Oct 22nd 1960
5. Envelope - Trustees minutes 1948 - 1955
6. Blue file - Longsight newsletters 1958 - 1970
7. Brown folder - 15 family photos 
8. Envelope.  23 short walks around Harwood area.  1961-62 typed.
9. Print offs from CWGC website 2014 - Soldiers from Harwood