Marlborough Street Congregational Mission war memorial board
This wooden war memorial board is in the care of Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley.
Text from the now defunct Vale and Dale website, a local history site created by our historian friend Loraine Petyt who died in 2023. Loraine gave her permission for us to use this text and originally a link to her website:
Marlborough Street Congregational Mission Church:
A daughter church of Devonshire Street, built at the junction of Marlborough Street and Brown Street.
The first service was held on 16th August 1883 and the last service held on 30th April 1961. Prayer meetings were started in the mid 1870’s at 50 Marlborough Street. An initiative of Mr. Ramsden, a draper in Low Street. It was around 1882 that the congregation came to the attention of Sir John Brigg, with his support and backing a church was built.
This building is now used by The Sangat Centre
There is also a reference to this church in the London Gazette:
A Separate Building, duly certified for religious worship, named CONGREGATIONAL MISSION, situated at Marlborough street, in the civil parish of Keighley, in the county of York, West Riding, in Keighley registration district, was, on the 31st October, 1907, registered for solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to 6th and 7th Wm. IV, c. 85. – Dated the 2nd November, 1907. 071 GEO. E. SPENCER,-Superintendent Registrar.
Description:
Oak board with carved trefoil moulding and carved leaf decoration at top.
Incised lettering in gold paint, (intertwined initials ‘MSCM’ meaning Marlborough Street Congregational Mission) list of names of those who died, and those who returned:
MSCM
| IN MEMORY OF Frank Brady Arthur Lee William Shreeve Joseph Smith Fletcher Spencer |
IN HONOUR OF Harry Burton Frederick Beaver Frank Beaver Frederick Bailey Clifford Denby John Hy Fowlds William Hanson Ernest Hanson Benjamin Homes Hubert Lunn Thomas Lunn William Thompson |
IN HONOUR OF William Moules Herbert Manterfield Charlie Pakes Albert Park Harry Park Arthur Roberts William Rodwell John Spencer Dobson Shepherd Norman Shepherd Herbert Shepherd |
THEIR NAME ENDURETH
Information sources
Loraine Petyt.
Dale Keeton.
Cliffe Castle Museum.
Sangat Centre.
London Gazette.
