Fleetwood Road Chapel |
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Fleetwood Road Chapel - 2009 |
The early Primitive Methodists had been meeting for around 10 years before a Chapel was built on Fleetwood Road. They met once a week on Sunday afternoons in John Crofts kitchen in Thornton. This was located at 191 Fleetwood Road which is today known as The Little Cottage opposite the junction of Trunnah Rd. |
the Ranters’ but the meeting went ahead as planned and was a turning point for the church. He declared that he was going to donate enough land to build a chapel ‘from yonder field’ where the congregation could meet without interference. This is the area where the old Chapel now stands. | The Old Chapel (1879) - 2009 |
The New Chapel (1904) - 2009 |
Fleetwood Road Primitive Methodist Chapel which was known locally as ‘the little Chapel’. The building served as both a Sunday School and a Chapel. |
before the Church Road Clinic was built in 1939. At the beginning of the second world war it was even used as a day school for evacuees from Manchester.
In 1932 the Wesleyan Methodists and the Primitive Methodists merged to form The Methodist Church of Great Britain and today Wignall Memorial Chapel and Fleetwood Road Chapel are joined as one Church with two Chapels.
Fleetwood Road Chapel
Fleetwood Road North
Thornton-Cleveleys
Lancashire
FY5 4BJ
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