Bill's Lecture - Cradley Heath |
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Bill's Lecture
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Moving from Dudley to St Luke's Church. St Luke's. Tom Stokes and myself made a Christ Blessing the Little Children in the memory of a woman chainmaker, and she taught in the Sunday School at St Luke's for 60 years, and when she died they decided they would put a window in the little Lady Chapel in her memory, and two little smaller ones at the side of it and that was one that Tom Stokes features again, Suffer the Little Children very nicely done. And the church was filled when they dedicated this window because everyone in Cradley Heath knew Teacher Ellen the chainmaker and there were 2 windows, there was St John and St Luke underneath.
Anyhow, it reminds me of something else told and just after the First World War. In the town hall somewhere there's been a memorial window put and it was to be unveiled by the mayor. And it was very high up in the town hall. I don't know which room it was now but anyhow he said, just at the moment came the unveiling the Bishop was told, you just have to pull this cord and down would come the curtains. Well, the moment came and the Bishop went up to the cord and he pulled it and nothing happened. He gave it another pull and nothing happened. So he gave it one almighty tug and he pulled the cord down. And they couldn't unveil the window then, they had to send for the firemen out and they had to get their ladders to unhang the curtains. No doubt that old Dr Perowne had had trouble like that and I am standing there, on the spot, to unveil it.
Now we are going a bit further down to some more work of the Camms here. And not only they did a lot of domestic work we call it, this was in the Majestic Cinema at Cradley. A Bingo Hall now (In 2016 it is derelict).
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