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Swalwell Wesleyan Methodist Church
The Methodist Chapel
after conversion to
a day nursery.
The Methodist Chapel
in the 1960's.
This church was situated on Market Lane at the bottom of Colbeck Avenue and it opened on 26th July 1930. It was built of brick and seated 250 worshippers. There was a sizeable organ and a small upstairs balcony at the rear of the church, which also had two vestrys at the sides of the entrance hall. A Sunday School was held in the afternoons and there were morning and evening Sunday Services. A Harvest Festival and a Christmas Party for children were annual events. It replaced an earlier chapel (1817?) also located on Market Lane.
Market Lane closed in the late 1990's and the premises are now used by a Nursery, the Stepping Stones Day Nursery, after considerable alterations were made to the building..
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I was organist at this chapel from 1947 to 1974 and my daughter and son in law was married here in 1972.
The organ was subsequently taken by two organ students to Manchester.
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Posted by: Karen Fisher at March 9, 2009 8:35 PM