THESE members of a mothers’ meeting at St Paul’s, Parkwood, were giving a humorous dialect sketch called A Trip to Blackpool in December 1928. Their effort, which was preceded by glees, songs and duets, raised money for curtains to close off the chancel when the church itself was being used for social occasions.

Some of these lively mothers also formed a concert party, The Cheerfuls, which entertained a variety of gatherings with songs and dialect recitations.

St Paul’s had been opened as a mission church in 1884, boasting in its heyday some 200 scholars and teachers in its Sunday School. The building, while standing disused in 1969, would earn the dubious distinction of being 'stolen' by being illegally demolished.