Pendlebury, Happy Land United Methodist Free Church, Dumbell Street
1877-1970
Archives
Total copies: 1
Records including Baptism registers 1877-1964 (Box L51/64); Trustees' Meetings minutes 1919-1970; Trust accounts 1898-1967; Pew rents 1922-1963
Related Material:Marriage registers 1894-1964 at M275/1164/1-4
Title:
Pendlebury, Happy Land United Methodist Free Church, Dumbell Street
Date of work:
1877-1970
Reference number:
GB127.L51/19
Level of description:
Sub-fonds from Fonds: Swinton Methodist Circuit (GB127.L51)
Part of:
Includes:
Custodial history:
The society was formed in 1846 and a school-chapel was built in 1850 in Moss Lane. A separate Sunday school was built in 1874. Following dissension within the Happy Land society, with some members wishing to join the Wesleyan Methodists, it was decided that the United Methodist Free Church members should have the new school building and the Wesleyans should have the old school-chapel (and this latter society went on to build the Victoria church in Pendlebury). The Happy Land society out-grew the school building and in 1891 it moved into a new church in Dumbell Street. Initially part of Salford United Methodist Free Church Circuit, Happy Land continued in the successor Salford United Methodist Circuit after 1907 and in 1954 transferred to Salford (Swinton, Pendlebury and Pendleton) Methodist Circuit . It closed in 1964, but its society joined with Pendlebury Methodist Church.
Access restrictions:
Unrestricted
Use restrictions:
Unrestricted
Record types:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Language:
English
Record number:
7209994