Newspaper cutting
Evening Post
Category
Ephemera
Date
23 Oct 1963
Materials
Newspaper
Measurements
213 x 168 mm
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 749700.10
Summary
One of a series of newspaper cuttings. 'Rev. John Goulton (curate at St. John's, Worksop 1902-1909) and St. Philip with St. Luke, Pennyfoot Street, Nottingham (church built (financed) by Thomas Admas, born Worksop 1807)'. Numbers 22/1 - 22/12. A single cutting from the 'EVENING POST AND NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1963'. 'EDITOR'S LETTER BAG Memorial gardens suggested on site of demolished church You published in the Post last week a picture of the beautiful church of St. Philip's in Penny-foot-street being destroyed by order of the diocesan authorities and the Church Commissioners, in spite of the unanimous protests of the churchwardens and the Parochial Church Council. The reasons given for what I con- sider is an act of vandalism was that the local population had gone - although there are still 2,000 people in the parish and soon will be many more in the immediate vicinity of the church - and that owing to the shortage of clergy the diocese could not spare a man to be vicar of St. Philip's. ...'.
Makers and roles
Evening Post, printer and publisher