SEEN here on the right on a heavily-retouched old postcard, the former St Paul’s Church and Sunday School stood at the corner of Park Lane and Parkwood Street.

It had opened in 1884 as an off-shoot of the former St Mary’s at Eastwood, on land given by the Duke of Devonshire.

The church could accommodate 480 worshippers, and by the turn of the century its Sunday School was described as “flourishing”. Presumably, the children shown were some of its scholars.

St Paul’s – long gone like so many other places of worship – came to an especially ignominious end.

In 1969, while standing disused, it was “stolen” when an unscrupulous demolition contractor started illegally pulling the building down and selling its materials!

This is another photograph from Kevin Seaton.