THIS unusual if gloomy view combines a disappearing tower with a glimpse of the interior of St Peter’s Church in Halifax Road during its demolition in 1956.
St Peter’s had been consecrated in 1882, replacing an iron Mission building which had opened appropriately on St Peter’s Day ten years earlier. It was described as “Early English style, plain but substantial in appearance”. Its stone came from nearby Woodhouse Quarry, its pews were of pitch pine, and it could seat 850.
A centre for its community, St Peter’s activities included men’s and women’s help societies, a Band of Hope, a church temperance society, a mothers’ union, Bible and singing classes, a sewing group, a sick club, a savings bank and a Sunday School library.
Its demolition did not signify its end for St Peter’s surviving worshippers, for they continued to meet in its former Sunday School in Kensington Street till 1975.
This is another photograph from Kevin Seaton’s collection.
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