Baptist Church, Osborne Road, Newcastle upon Tyne. Postcard about 1903?
This picture can be compared with a view about 20 years later; www.flickr.com/photos/59662214@N06/30026213381/
This card is postmarked 25th November 1904. The electric trams were introduced across the city from December 1901, reaching Gosforth by 1904, so this picture was possibly taken in 1902 or 1903. It is in the Auty Series by G H & W B No 4252.
Tyne & Wear Archives website says the following about the church "Jesmond Baptist church was opened in 1886 following a decision by Newcastle Baptists to close down their Marlborough Crescent church. This had already merged with the Bewick Street church (formerly Tuthill Stairs Baptist church) in 1884 when that church had closed. It was felt that two new churches should be built to serve the growing suburbs of Newcastle more effectively, one at Westgate and one at Jesmond. They were both opened in 1886 and administered jointly until 1889 when they became independent of one another. Jesmond Baptist church closed in 1970."
In the background is the spire of the large Jesmond Methodist Church on Clayton Road which is also no more, but at one time had two church halls, a gallery, and a very active congregation and Sunday School . Briefly "An iron chapel was opened in 1877 and a permanent building in 1883, for this former Wesleyan Methodist Church. The church was demolished in 1981 but the congregation continued to meet in the hall until 1990 when it amalgamated with Jesmond Methodist Church, St George's Terrace."
Jesmond Presbyterian Church was to the right on Burdon Terrace and is now the United Reform church, the last thriving survivor of the three, see; www.jesmond-urc.org.uk/home/
Completing the religious feel of this small area was Jesmond Synagogue, just behind the Methodist church in Eskdale Terrace. It too has gone, a life that spanned from 1915 until 1986.
As one who grew up in this area in the 1950's, when all four had healthy congregations, it would have been inconceivable to believe there'd be such a religious decline in so short a period.
Baptist Church, Osborne Road, Newcastle upon Tyne. Postcard about 1903?
This picture can be compared with a view about 20 years later; www.flickr.com/photos/59662214@N06/30026213381/
This card is postmarked 25th November 1904. The electric trams were introduced across the city from December 1901, reaching Gosforth by 1904, so this picture was possibly taken in 1902 or 1903. It is in the Auty Series by G H & W B No 4252.
Tyne & Wear Archives website says the following about the church "Jesmond Baptist church was opened in 1886 following a decision by Newcastle Baptists to close down their Marlborough Crescent church. This had already merged with the Bewick Street church (formerly Tuthill Stairs Baptist church) in 1884 when that church had closed. It was felt that two new churches should be built to serve the growing suburbs of Newcastle more effectively, one at Westgate and one at Jesmond. They were both opened in 1886 and administered jointly until 1889 when they became independent of one another. Jesmond Baptist church closed in 1970."
In the background is the spire of the large Jesmond Methodist Church on Clayton Road which is also no more, but at one time had two church halls, a gallery, and a very active congregation and Sunday School . Briefly "An iron chapel was opened in 1877 and a permanent building in 1883, for this former Wesleyan Methodist Church. The church was demolished in 1981 but the congregation continued to meet in the hall until 1990 when it amalgamated with Jesmond Methodist Church, St George's Terrace."
Jesmond Presbyterian Church was to the right on Burdon Terrace and is now the United Reform church, the last thriving survivor of the three, see; www.jesmond-urc.org.uk/home/
Completing the religious feel of this small area was Jesmond Synagogue, just behind the Methodist church in Eskdale Terrace. It too has gone, a life that spanned from 1915 until 1986.
As one who grew up in this area in the 1950's, when all four had healthy congregations, it would have been inconceivable to believe there'd be such a religious decline in so short a period.