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DMS10 - Records of Maidenhead High Street (formerly Bridge Street) Wesleyan Methodist Church

1 - Trustees

2 - Leaders and society stewards/Church Council

3 - Society organisations

4 - Service of the Church

5 - Registration

6 - Membership

7 - Sunday School and Sunday Institute

8 - Printed material/miscellaneous

1 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: Log book: girls' school, January 1865-December 1886.

2 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: Log book: boys' school, January 1863-March 1886.

3 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: Log book: boy's school, March-December 1886; mixed, January 1887-July 1896. (Indexed for 1886-1888.)

4 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: Log book: mixed, August 1896-March 1907.

5 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: Log book: infants' school, March 1863-March 1895.

6 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: Log book: infants' school, April 1895-March 1907.

7 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: Minutes of Day School committee [school managers], April 1887-March 1898.

8 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: Minutes of Day School committee (managers), May 1898-June 1903.

9 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: Minutes of Day School committee (managers), July 1903-March 1907.

10 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: Letter from headmaster to managers criticising discipline of Mrs Chisell, teacher of Standard III.

11 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: Accounts : annual balance sheets, years ending February 1863-March 1883.

12 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: Treasurer's accounts (receipts and expenditure), May 1883-March 1889.

13 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: Treasurer's accounts (receipts and expenditure), May 1889-March 1893.

14 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: Treasurer's accounts (receipts and expenditure), May 1893-March 1897.

15 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: Treasurer's accounts (receipts and expenditure), April 1897-May 1899.

16 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: Treasurer's accounts, May 1899-June 1904.

17 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: School accounts.

18 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: Accounts for building new schoolroom.

19 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: Subscription accounts.

20 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: Inspector's annual reports.

21 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: Memorandum book containing details of teachers.

22 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: Financial statement relating to enlargement of school.

23 - Maidenhead Wesleyan Day School: Draft and copy letter announcing closure of school, with account of circumstances leading up to it.

24 - Printed material: The Monthly Greeting, Maidenhead (church newspaper), February-April 1869.

25 - Printed material: The Wesleyan – Methodist Magazine, December 1870.

26 - Printed material: Church newsletter, August 1958.

27 - Printed material: Church newsletter, January 1959.

28 - Printed material: Church newsletter, March/April 1960

29 - Printed material: Church newsletter, Christmas 1962.

30 - Printed material: Church newsletters, March/April, September/October and December 1963.

31 - Printed material: Church newsletters, July, August and Christmas 1966.

32 - Printed material: Church newsletters (High Street Shop Window from March issue), February-December 1968.

33 - Printed material: High Street Shop Window (church newsletter).

34 - Printed material: High Street Shop Window (church newsletter).

35 - Printed material: High Street Shop Window (church newsletter), January/February 1971-December 1971/January 1972.

36 - Printed material: High Street Shop Window (church newsletter), February/March-November/December 1972.

37 - Printed material: High Street Shop Window (church newsletter), February/March 1973-December 1973/January 1974.

38 - Printed material: Shop Window (church newsletter), February/March 1974-December 1974/January 1975.

39 - Printed material: Shop Window (church newsletter), February/March 1975-December 1975/January 1976.

40 - Printed material: Shop Window (church newsletter) February/March 1976-December 1976/January 1977.

41 - Printed material: Shop Window (church newsletter) February/March 1977-December 1977/January 1978.

42 - Printed material: Shop Window (church newsletter), February/[March] 1978-December 1978/January 1979.

43 - Printed material: Shop Window (church newsletter), February/March 1979-December 1979/January 1980.

44 - Printed material: Yearbooks, 1956/7-1960/1, 1962/3, 1964/5-1975/6.

45 - Printed material: Yearbooks, 1976/7-1977/8, 1983/4-1986/7.

46 - Printed material: Yearbook, 1990/1.

47 - Printed material: Annual reports, 1959/60, 1961/2, 1964/5-1965.

48 - Printed material: Annual reports, 1967-1974.

49 - Printed material: Verse greeting by Charles Cleare and John Brown, chapel stewards, to the members of the church and congregation, January 1878.

50 - Printed material: Photocopies of documents (1855-90) found under foundation stone of church when the latter was demolished in 1969-70.

51 - Miscellaneous: Memoir of John Higgs of Maidenhead (1800-1867), by Robert Walker.

52 - Miscellaneous: Memoir of Eliza Symmons (nee White) of Maidenhead, by Robert Walker.

53 - Miscellaneous: Memoir of Charles Cleare of Maidenhead.

54 - Miscellaneous: Short history of Maidenhead Penny Bank.

55 - Miscellaneous: Papers relating to celebrations of bicentenary of conversion of John Wesley.

56 - Miscellaneous: Letter from F.W. Street to C.R. Bromley, thanking latter for lift to church garden party and enclosing account of party and memoir of church life in the 1870s.

57 - Miscellaneous: Scrapbook entitled "A Record of Rebuilding 1961-1973".

58 - Miscellaneous: Maidenhead Corporation tenancy cards for 63 Larchfield Road (tenant Mr G.J. Ives).

59 - Miscellaneous: Papers relating to, and displays for, exhibition on 150 years of Methodism in Maidenhead, mounted at Maidenhead Library, 18 June-7 July 1979.

60 - Miscellaneous: The Maidenhead Advertiser, 30 September 1903.

61 - Miscellaneous: Short history of church produced as part of 125th anniversary celebrations.

62 - Miscellaneous: Press cutting from the Methodist Recorder concerning 150th anniversary celebrations.

63 - Miscellaneous: "For Christ's Sake."

64 - Papers relating to centenary celebrations: Centenary accounts.

65 - Papers relating to centenary celebrations: Bank passbook: centenary fund.

66 - Papers relating to centenary celebrations: Vouchers (audited): numbers 1-53.

67 - Papers relating to centenary celebrations: Vouchers (audited): numbers 53a-77.

68 - Papers relating to centenary celebrations: Vouchers (audited): numbers 78-111.

69 - Papers relating to centenary celebrations: Large poster advertising centenary services and events.

70 - Papers relating to centenary celebrations: Small poster advertising centenary services and events.

71 - Papers relating to centenary celebrations: Handbill advertising centenary services and events.

72 - Papers relating to centenary celebrations: Tickets to centenary celebration public luncheon, 11 July 1929.

73 - Papers relating to centenary celebrations: Grand Centenary Bazaar handbook and programme (30-31 October 1929).

74 - Papers relating to centenary celebrations: Centenary souvenir brochure and calendar, and appeal for funds for alterations to the church building.

75 - Papers relating to centenary celebrations: Miscellaneous correspondence and papers relating to the centenary celebrations.

76 - Higgs family: Autograph album of Jemima Griffin Higgs.

77 - Higgs family: Copy photographs of paintings of Jemima Higgs, Mrs Walker, and Messrs Higgs & Walker's chemist's shop (next to Maidenhead Town Hall).

78 - Photographs and drawings: Photocopy of artist's impression of the Bridge Street chapel in the 19th century.

79 - Photographs and drawings: Photographs of portraits of Wesleyan Methodist mayors of Maidenhead.

80 - Photographs and drawings: Photograph of drawing of the church (original c.1850s)

81 - Photographs and drawings: Postcard photograph of the church.

82 - Photographs and drawings: Postcard photograph of the new church porch.

83 - Photographs and drawings: Photographs of church interior.

84 - Photographs and drawings: Photographs of demolition, re-building and re-opening of the church.

85 - Photographs and drawings: Photographs and negatives of the opening ceremony for Wesley Hall, 10 February 1973.

86 - Photographs and drawings: Photograph of church interior.

87 - Photographs and drawings: Photograph of church exterior.

88 - Miscellaneous: Souvenir brochure marking the opening of the new church buildings.

89 - Miscellaneous: Press cutting reporting the formation of the first Church Council (annoted with the names of members).

90 - Miscellaneous: Press cutting reporting the death of Norman Bromley, former trustee of the church.

91 - 1979 anniversary celebrations: Programme for flower festival.

92 - 1979 anniversary celebrations: Photographs and negatives of the flower festival.

93 - 1979 anniversary celebrations: Photographs of anniversary exhibition held at Maidenhead Library.

94 - 1979 anniversary celebrations: Photographs of watercolour paintings of artist's impressions of Maidenhead Methodist churches, painted by Jack Widgery for the anniversary exhibition.

95 - 1979 anniversary celebrations: Press cutting from the Maidenhead Advertiser.

96 - 1979 anniversary celebrations: Photograph of local clergy (Methodist, Anglican, Baptist, United Reformed and Salvation Army) attending the anniversary service at Maidenhead Town Hall, 2 July 1979.

97 - 1979 anniversary celebrations: Line drawings by C. G. Lelliott (artist's impressions of Methodist churches), for publication in Peter Hardiment, Methodism in Maidenhead.

98 - 1979 anniversary celebrations: Photographs of church members.

99 - 1979 anniversary celebrations: Photographs of church members in fancy dress (possibly for a pageant) at centenary celebrations, 1929, with lists of participants 1979.

100 - Miscellaneous: Yearbooks, 1978/9 and 1979/80.

101 - Miscellaneous: Photographs of the church exterior.

102 - Miscellaneous: Reproduction of photograph of Charles Cleare, postmaster of Maidenhead, n.d. [19C], with note concerning its authenticity, 1989.

103 - Miscellaneous: Photocopy and transcript of memoir of the religious activities of Charles Cleare, local preacher, Sunday School superintendent, class leader, chapel steward, etc, n.d. [c.1898].

104 - Miscellaneous: Church newsletter, August 2004.

105 - Update (newsletter of refurbishment scheme), nos. 1-12.

106 - Programmes for concerts in aid of the refurbishment of the church.

107 - Guide to the church.

108 - Notes on the history of the church.

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