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This message was updated on 9/17/2005 7:35:01 AM by RMMee

Heanor Free Church
replied on: 10/27/2004 3:27:46 AM

The Heanor Free Church was set up following the closure of the Park Street Methodist in 1968. Park Street, along with the Mount Street Chapel, were to be closed down and merged with the Wesleyan Chapel on Market Street. The congregation at Park Street refused to accept this, and they formally broke away from the Methodist Circuit. The book contains quite a few press cuttings about the discussions - it looks as though it got quite acrimonious.

The book doesn't go on to say what happened next, though the Park Street Chapel finally closed in 1968, with "part of the congregation merging with the Market Street Society, and part forming a Free Church in Midland Road."

I suppose the next question (and I'm already asking myself it!), is what was the building before it became the Free Church?

Hope this is of help

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