NOVEMBER 1967 My dear Friends As you have heard by now, Evensong at the Mission Room will be discontinued as from Advent Sunday to enable the whole Anglican congregation to worship together with their Parish Priest. Members of the congregation who came to my...
Anne (Papworth) Hull 2020Pop Papworth "Walter"With my Dad dying two months before my 4th birthday, I have very few memories of him. I was told that I occasionally went with him in his van to make deliveries to customers. My early years at the shop were memories of...
Article researched and presented by Margaret CraddockThe Mission Room has been provided with a bell, the gift of Mr A Peachy, Mildenhall, Suffolk. We hope it may effectually remind our New Town friends of their duty (and privilege also) to attend Divine Service on...
Article researched and presented by Margaret CraddockMission Church Choir and Congregation c1930The Mission Room was erected in Finedon Road at the junction with Higham Road in the late nineteenth century. It was built through the generosity of two spinster ladies,...
Article by Phil Mason transcribed by Margaret CraddockAround forty years ago, January and early February was always a busy time as we frantically made final preparations for the Mission Room annual pantomime. Realising our limitations, we decided from the beginning...
Prepared by Margaret Craddock following an interview with Phil MasonI understand the Mission Room was built through the generosity of two spinster ladies, the Miss Orlebars who came from Hinwick Hall originally and they lived in a large brick house in the High Street...
Article by Phil Mason, transcribed by Margaret CraddockDuring the post-war period of the late nineteen forties and early nineteen fifties, the Mission Room Committee organised a variety of social activities. Not only to raise much needed cash to refurbish the church...