This is from around 1948 and shows what looks like the banner-carrying team for the Walking Day parade.
Prams and bicycles decorated for the procession in around 1950, The four ladies at the front are (from left to right) Gertie Jones, Jennett Tolley, Dorothy Peake and Margaret Eastern The ladies of the church walk along Padgate Lane – left to right ??, ??, Sarah Hughes, Beatrice Jackson, ??, ??.In the late 1940s/early 1950s the young people of the church formed a group – The Risley Revellers – to provide entertainment at social events. Here the are performing a celebration of the United Kingdom From left to right: Standing: Les Wyke, Roy Unsworth, John Turnock, Bill Dean, Roy Jackson, Flora Andrews, Beryl Taylor, Ron Percival, Jim Bate, Peter Dean, John Jones, Albert Thomason Seated: Mary Bate, Kathleen Dean (Wales), Winifred Hughes (Northern Ireland), Audrey Wilson (Britannia), Vivian Taylor (England), Dot Peake (Scotland), Sarah Hughes.And here is ‘The Wedding’ – another entertainment. From left to right: Mr.Dunkley, Richard Swindell, Stan Bate, Roy Jackson, Jim Bate, Cliff Roberts, a friend of Cliff Roberts – name unknown, Percy Bate, Eric Percival, Mr.Bold. Seated: Alan Rudge, Alf Houghton, Ron Percival, Leslie Hughes, Albert Allen “The Baby2 – another entertainment item – left to right we can see John Turnock, Roy Unsworth, Jim Bate, Ron Percival, Bill Den and John Jones. Mr. H.W.Dunkley, the church’s president and minister in the 1940s and 50s. It is interesting to see the painted cross on the wall behind Mr.Dunkley, a simple wooden cross takes price of place here now so this picture reveals a lost piece of folk art. Another Walking Day – this one in 1953 (and hence the crown-shaped festoons on the lorry), another Miller’s Potato wagon decorated to carry those who were unable to walk for themselves. The lady in the foreground is Mrs. Addison and Keith Higham is at the wheel on the vehicle.. Another image, also, possibly from 1953. Left to right on the lorry are Mrs.Swindell, Mrs.Bate, Freda Dean (nee Bold), Beatrice Percival, and a young Michael Barker peeps over the decorations.A church trip to the Wirral in 1949. Present are: Back Row (left to right) – Stan Jones, Eileen Scott, Mrs, Scott, Janey Cooke, Eva Bate, Ron Percival, Mary Bate, Roy Unsworth, Jim Bate, Frank Holbrook, Nellie Turner, Roy Jackson Middle – Harry Clare, Mrs.Clare, Eunice Jeffs, Eleanor Bate, Beryl Taylor, May Houghton Front – Jean Clare, John Turnock, Winifred Hughes, Maureen Bate, Audrey Wilson, Kathleen Dean, unknown, Hilda Clare, John Houghton, Flora Andrews.And in the same year, the Women’s Auxiliary class had an outing to Knaresborough. Mrs.Clare, Mrs.Bate, Doris Hodges, Dorothy Swindell, Mrs. Addison, Mary Donoghue, Mrs.Higham and Mary Donoghue are amongst those enjoying the day out.The young men of the church carrying the banner in around 1960 Another picture from Walking Day – the four people in the centre of the photo are (left to right) our former church president Ron Percival, former Sunday School superintendent Janey Cook, John Houghton and Leslie Hughes.
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