Heritage Talks
Heritage Talk: The Primitive Methodist Roots Of The Probation Service
Online via ZoomNo matter where you are in the world please join us via Zoom on Saturday 13th January 2024 at 11am GMT for our latest #engleseabrook Heritage Talk. In Root & Branch: How 5 Shillings, Faith and Belief Inspired the Beginning of the Probation Service Today Englesea Brook's Heritage Officer, Amy Wilkinson, will talk about the Primitive Methodist […]
Heritage Talk: Sir George Edwards – Farmworkers’ Leader, MP and Primitive Methodist
Online via ZoomNo matter where you are in the world please join us via Zoom on Saturday 10th February 2024 at 11am GMT for our latest #engleseabrook Heritage Talk. Born in extreme poverty in Norfolk, George Edwards (1850-1933) was an untiring activist on behalf of the rural poor for six decades. He re-founded the farm workers' union […]
Heritage Talk: Winsford’s Inspector of Nuisances: the Development of a “Vile Town’s” Infrastructure, 1890-1930
Online via ZoomNo matter where you are in the world please join us via Zoom on Saturday 9th March 2024 at 11am GMT for our latest #engleseabrook Heritage Talk. Improbable as it sounds today, in the early 1900s the centre of Winsford in rural Cheshire was blanketed with toxic black clouds that blocked out the sunlight; living […]
Heritage Talk: The Fate Of Fonts
Online via ZoomNo matter where you are in the world please join us via Zoom on Saturday 12th October 2024 at 11am BST for our latest #engleseabrookchapelandmuseum Heritage Talk. When a simple bowl would do, why did some Primitive Methodist Chapels acquire small but highly decorative baptismal fonts? Where did they get them from and what might […]
Heritage Talk: Methodist Pottery and Potters
Online via ZoomNo matter where you are in the world please join us via Zoom on Saturday 12th October 2024 at 11am BST for our latest #engleseabrookchapelandmuseum Heritage Talk. Methodist commemorative and ornamental pottery: from John Wesley to Mow Cop; from Enoch Wood to Jessie Van Hallen. John Anderson tells the story of Methodist commemorative and ornamental […]
Heritage Talk: The Burning Mountain – Primitive Methodism On Film
Online via ZoomRay Johnson from the Staffordshire Film Archive will be joining us to talk on "The Burning Mountain: Memories of Primitive Methodism On Film". Among the various film clips to be shown will be someone filmed in the 1970s who remembers going to the 1907 celebrations at Mow Cop as a child, and clips of the […]
Heritage Talk: The Methodist Tapestries Collection
Online via ZoomJoin us via Zoom on Saturday 15th February 2025 at 11am GMT for our latest #engleseabrookchapelandmuseum Heritage Talk. In The Methodist Tapestries Collection David Heatherington will talk about how the Methodist Tapestries Collection came about and uses images from the completed panels to illustrate the quality and scope of the embroideries telling stories of “ The […]
Heritage Talk: Just Women: Women in Primitive Methodism
Online via ZoomFollowing the success of our Just Women exhibition, we mark #WomensHistoryMonth by exploring the lives of more inspiring women, many of whom could not be included in our exhibition for reasons of space. Women played an important role in Primitive Methodism, fighting for social justice and helping the movement to grow. However, most were denied […]