IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): O/121
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: POPLAR WESLEYAN MISSION
Date(s): 1932-1939
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.16 linear meters
Name of creator(s): Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
A Wesleyan Methodist church was first built in Poplar on Hale Street in 1807. In 1848 the congregation moved to a new, larger church on East India Dock Road. In 1886 new classrooms and a lecture hall were added to the church. The East India Dock Road church became the headquarters of the Poplar Wesleyan Mission (later the Poplar Methodist Mission). The Methodist Church missions in the East End of London aimed to combat the poverty and squalor of this area with a combination of evangelism and social work. The church was badly damaged by enemy action during the Second World War but was repaired and was used until 1976, when it was closed and the Mission transferred to the former Trinity Congregational Church on the same street.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Issues of Pathfinder, the magazine of the Poplar Wesleyan Mission, Methodist Church, 1932-1939.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
25 issues arranged chronologically.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright: Depositor
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Received in 1963 (AC/63/002).
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
See also ACC/3225: Poplar Methodist Church, LMA/4249: East End Mission and N/M/043/020: Poplar Methodist Chapel.
Publication note:
Anonymous, A history and a narrative concerning Poplar Wesleyan church, London: Poplar and Bow Methodist Mission, 1905.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: January to March 2009