A big Thank You from St James’ Mission Team for the generous gifts donated for children and young people at Christmas 2023.Please click on the DOWNLOADS to the right to read about the organisations supported this year and the total of Beanie Hats donated for 2023 …. some of our wonderfully generous knitters start work early so just in case you need the pattern you will find one in the download on the right
Transcript of his video message Hello there, my name is Sam, I'm the Bishop of Stockport and I just want to say to all those editors of AChurchNearYou.com, thank you so much for all that you've been doing. I know it's not always straightforward, but you are just doing an amazing job helping people find out what's on at their local church. You're connecting people, not just with services, but with God, aren't you? It's almost like you're helping to provide a shop window so that people can see: is this a place where I'll feel welcome? What's it going to be like? It's immense, what you do. Thank you so much.<br>
Details of the annual commemorations are outlined in an extract from the December 2022 issue of E-Howfen, the newsletter of the Weshoughton Local History Group (WLHG) who hold archives of material on the disaster.Please click DOWNLOADS to the right to read the extracts from the from WLHG Newsletters for 2022 and the 2023 copy giving updated arrangements. In the churchyard of Daisy Hill Church there are graves of some of those who perished in this disaster. One descendant of a young man from Daisy Hill described her grandmother telling how she and her husband walked across the fields and back on several occasions to try and identify the body of their son. Eventually it was related she thought “odd socks” they returned across the fields and she was able to identify her son by his odd socks he is buried in the churchyard. Another Daisy Hill descendent’s grandfather is buried in the churchyard and as a member of the WLHG, she researched the archive to discover why her grandmother did not receive any financial assistance when other widows did. The discovery that her grandparents were not married and thus her grandmother was not eligible came as a surprise. Below is a link to the Online Parish Clarks archive records of the disaster.https://lan-opc.org.uk/Westhoughton/Pretoria/
