From the beginning of the industrial revolution at the end of the 18th Century, until around the time of the Great War, there was a large migration of people from ...
The first chapel
The first Methodist chapel in Bedworth (Weslyan Chapel) was in a rented cottage in Kinders Yard off Leicester Street, soon to be followed by the use of a ...
Bedworth Chapel
The first Primitive Methodist Chapel in Bedworth was built in 1830 in King Street near the bridge over the railway, with seats for 120 people. Details were recorded in ...
Christopher George Squirrell was born in Ipswich around 1844, where he followed in his father’s footsteps by becoming a watchmaker.
He had however, been preaching since he was 16 and at ...