Bedminster Churches: A Social Service
- GVHeritage Groups
- Dec 6, 2024
- 1 min read
by the West Street Heritage Group for Futures Past
This was true especially before the Welfare State, with events such as a “Tea and Supper to alleviate the Miner’s distress,” and “Teas for wounded soldiers in the First World War”.
The Sisters of Charity attached to St. John’s Church occupied a house on West Street from where they distributed to poor families food which was donated by the regular worshippers of St John’s on “pound days’- you had to bring a pound of food.
Sunday schools, Sisterhood ladies meetings, social evenings, choirs, jumble sales, bazaars, May fairs, football and cricket teams, drama groups, concerts, outings, Brotherhood men’s meetings, youth groups, Scouts, Guides, Boys’ and Girls’ Brigades, flower festivals, harvest suppers, church teas, wedding receptions and much more became the social life of the neighbourhood.
