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Radford - Norton Street Congregational Church and Sunday School

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This memorial was from the former Bloomsgrove Mission which had been founded on Ronald Street by Castle Gate Congregational Church in 1836. The Mission transferred in 1894 to a building at the corner of Norton Street/Denman Street, and was then known as Norton Street Congregational Church. The congregation joined the United Reformed Church in 1972 but with falling membership the church closed in 1979. The church had a Boys Brigade Company. Research: Rachel Farrand

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The memorial is now in Lenton Methodist Church, Derby Road, Nottingham. Brian Szowkomud notes ‘I cleaned the memorial in 2014 soon after finding it ... behind the Norton Street Boys Brigade chapel one Sunday morning whilst researching Radford (Great War fatalities).’ The chapel was being used for storage and was to be sold that week. So Brian ‘ organised a friend with a van and heavy duty lifting gear before dinner and asked the staff at Lenton Methodist church to accept it into their care .’ The inscription reads: 'In proud and loving memory of the men of this Church and Sunday School who fell in the Great War 1914-1918 and in gratitude for those who returned. Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory. Psalm 115.

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Names on Memorial

Arthur Bailey - Arthur Charles Bailey

Cecil Charlesworth - Cecil Charlesworth

John Clarke - John Clarke

Frederick C Dennis - Frederick Claud Dennis

James Goodacre - James George Goodacre

John Hall - John Henry Hall

John Hollis - John James Hollis

Robert Horne - Robert Horne

George Hunt - Bertie Gilbert Hunt

Alfred Lambert - Alfred Lambert

Ernest Lane - Ernest Lane

Frank Lane - Frank Lane

James Lane - James Lane

Arthur Marriott - Arthur Taylder Marriott

Jack Newton - Jack Newton

Leslie Parker - Leslie Parker

Cecil Remington - Cecil Remington

Joseph Renals - Joseph Renals

Frederick Riley - Fred Ledger Riley

William E Sims - William Ewart Sims

Albert Statham - Albert Statham

Joseph Stevenson - John Joseph Stevenson

George Sutton - George Sutton

Harold Thornhill - William Harold Thornhill

Horace Ulph - Horace Gold Ulph

Arthur Wilkinson - Arthur Wilkinson

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  • This memorial was from the former Bloomsgrove Mission which had been founded on Ronald Street by Castle Gate Congregational Church in 1836. The Mission transferred in 1894 to a building at the corner of Norton Street/Denman Street, and was then known as Norton Street Congregational Church. The congregation joined the United Reformed Church in 1972 but with falling membership the church closed in 1979. The church had a Boys Brigade Company. Research: Rachel Farrand
    Photo courtesy of Brian Szowkomud - This memorial was from the former Bloomsgrove Mission which had been founded on Ronald Street by Castle Gate Congregational Church in 1836. The Mission transferred in 1894 to a building at the corner of Norton Street/Denman Street, and was then known as Norton Street Congregational Church. The congregation joined the United Reformed Church in 1972 but with falling membership the church closed in 1979. The church had a Boys Brigade Company. Research: Rachel Farrand