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Bethesda Methodist Chapel News
On Saturday 11th April Bethesda
Chapel will be open to visitors at
12.00 noon until 2.30 pm as the first of the 2015 season of open days.
Biddulph Male Voice Choir will sing at 1.00 pm
and Mr Michael Rhodes will play the organ during the afternoon.

Bethesda Methodist Chapel, Hanley
picture: © Matthew Rice
A number of events
have been planed for Bethesda this year.
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On 2nd May
we open at 12.00 noon until 2.30 pm as part of Stoke on Trent City
Centre Partnership's Cultural Quarter Open Day. Many historic
buildings in the Cultural Quarter will be open to the public including
the Town Hall, The Regent Theatre backstage, Radio Stoke and the
vaults below the Potteries Museum. Well worth a visit to Hanley (Stoke
on Trent City Centre) on that day.
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Our June
open day will be in association with the Douglas Macmillan Hospice to
help with their fundraising.
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With the
help of a £500 gift from a local pottery company, Steelite
International, we are planning to install a donated Victorian slate
fireplace in our Vestry room to replace the one stolen during the
1990's.
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Historic
Chapels Trust are planning to obtain a price for installing toilets in
the outside vestry buildings and we have already had an offer of help
from a local pottery company.
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Our WW1
exhibition has received very good reviews and we are planning a very
important change to it. We plan to make a model war graves cemetery
(circa 3ft X 2ft) and over the next five years (the last Bethesda Our
Boy died 1919) we will add a Remembrance Cross to the cemetery on the
100th anniversary of a fallen Bethesda Our Boy. Nine crosses will be
added this year.
John Booth
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