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ONE of the great virtues of old newspapers is that they include detailed reports on a variety of community activities.

A BRADFORD church established on ‘Devil Street’, with a congregation known as ‘ranters’, is celebrating its 200th anniversary.

By Harold Heys, local historian IT WAS Darwen Football Club’s biggest crowd of the inter-war years. More than 12,000 packed the Anchor Ground to see the Welsh Wizard turning on the style. He had everyone in raptures with a dazzling performance that was cheered to the echo. It was a super spectacle and even the hard-bitten reporters were impressed. “Memorable” said the Darwen News chap. “Impressive,” said the Northern Daily Telegraph man. Praise indeed, considering that the star of the show was 66 years old. However, the vast crowd that turned up wasn’t there to watch a Lan...

Carnegie Primitive Methodist Church will see a transition in leadership – but the congregation will be familiar with the name – when Rev. Daniel Pastorius retires and his son, Rev. Todd Pastorius, is welcomed as the new pastor. Rev. Daniel Pastorius will give his farewell sermon at 11 a.m. May

Norwich minister discovers 70-year-old painting  A Norwich church minister has recently re-discovered a picture he drew almost 70 years ago of The Wondrous Cross, which hung in two churches in Hampshire for many years. Dr Alan Clifford, aged 79, is now Pastor of Norwich Reformed Church. Born in 1941, he was brought up attending the Primitive Methodist chapel in Farnborough.   “Sadly, my father was an atheist, but my dear mother took me and my two sisters to the services,” he said. “I will always thank God for the early grounding in the Christian faith by faithful Sunday school te...