Methodists & Crump Meadow Pit (General)

by dent , Monday, April 07, 2014, 22:57 (3678 days ago) @ Jefff

Very grateful thanks for this insight. I am almost certain that it would have been the influence of the Hale family, through Crump Meadow pit, which drew my father into Cinderford Wesley. His own family had only slender connections with church or chapel. My father's mother, one of the Bullock family, was associated with the Independent Chapel at Littledean and his father had no church affiliation as far as I am aware. My father became very involved with Cinderford Wesley as a youth and young man and I think received much encouragement there to pursue his call to the Methodist ministry. Cinderford Wesley was what we would now call his 'sponsoring church'. He returned to the church in 1964, to address a circuit annual rally and in his address (reported in the Lydney Observer), mentions Mr and Mrs C.A.J. Hale as 'happily still with them'. Indeed, Mr and Mrs Hale may have been in the congregation on that occasion.
Christopher Dent