Mass-Observation Archive

Worktown Collection (1937-40)

Box 20: Church services

20/A Lists and church services

"Bolton Chronological List of services, etc"., observed", ms, 5pp, WRL

List, ms, 2pp, points to be covered and observers' initials

"Services attended", ts, 8pp, list of service details

"Methodist Churches", ts, 4pp, list, church addresses and details of services

Untitled document, ts, 4pp, a standard Christian ceremony

"Church of England Service, ms, 26pp, [JW], order of proceedings

"Methodism Alive", ts, 6pp, [?].8.38, JW, a discourse on Methodism

"Index to Church of England Srvices" (sic), ms, 10pp

Index cards (12), ms, behaviour at services

20/B Church services

Observer accounts of services at the following churches:

"Report on visit to the evening service of the Parish church, Church Street", ts, 5pp, 5.9.37, IR

"Bolton Parish Church", ms, 7pp, 24.12.37, JW

"Bolton Parish Church", ms, 5pp, 25.12.37, JW

"Bolton Parish Church", ms, 4pp, 5.5.[?], [JW]

"Ascension Day, B. Parish Church", ms, 3pp, 6.5.[?], JW

"Bolton Parish Church", ms, 8pp, 6.5.[?], [JW], Ascension Day

Untitled document, ts, 1p, 18.7.[?], Parish church, Church Institute sermons

"Evensong: Bolton Parish Church", ts, 3pp, 18.12.39, BA

"Devotional Service at St. Peter's Parish Church Bolton", ts, 4pp, 2.3.38

"St. Georges Rd Congregational Church", ms, 7pp, 21.3.[?], THH

"Congregational Communion", ts, 2pp, 3.4.[?], BB

"St. Georges Rd Congregational Church", ms, 6pp, 11.4.[?], THH

"Sunday Congregational Service", ts, 1p, 27.6.[?], TH

"Religion", ms, 5pp, 22.8.[?], DK, St. George's Road Congregational

"St. George's Road Congregational", ts, 3pp, 19.9.[?], BB

"St. George's Congregational Church", ts, 4pp, 17.10.37, ZB

"St. George's Rd Congregational Service", ms, 7pp, 2.1.38, THH

"St. George's Road Congregational Church", ts, 1p, 6.3.38, BCP

"Congregational Maudsley St.", ms/ts, 14pp, 27.2.[?], JW

"Maudsley St. Sermons", ms, 8pp, 11.4.[?], THH

"Maudsley St Congs", ms, 19pp, 22.8.[?], JW

"Chorley Old Road, Congrationalist", ms, 11pp, 21.8.[?]

"Derby St Cong. Church", ts, 5pp, 22.8.[?], TH

20/C Services and sermons

Observer accounts of services and sermons at the following churches and chapels:

"Methodist Easter Communion", ms, 4pp, 17.4.[?], BB

"Park St Methodist Church", ms, 4pp, 19.12.37, WRL

"Park St Meth.", ms, 6pp, 28.5.39, WRL

"St. George's St. Methodists", ts, 3pp, 17.12.39, AH

"St. Georges Road Meth.", ms, 6pp, 25.12.[?], WH

"Bridge St. Methodist Chapel", ms, 5pp, 20.3.37, JW, card attached

"Bridge Street Methodist Sermons", ts, 6pp, 5.6.38, WH

"Victoria Methodist Church", ms, 9pp, 4.4.37, WH

"Victoria Hall", ms, 21pp, 16.1[38], JW, morning service

"Victoria Hall", ms, 4pp, 16.1.[38], JW

"Victoria Hall", ms, 20pp, 16.1.[38], JW, evening service

"Victoria Hall", ms, 5pp, 16.1.[38], JW, evening services, prayer meeting

"Victoria Hall", ms, 8pp, 16.1.[38], JW, [songs] service

"Victoria Hall", ms, 6pp, 23.1.[38], JW, morning service

"Victoria Hall", ms, 7pp, 23.1.[38], JW, evening service

"Victoria Hall", ts, 6pp, 10.4.38, JW, morning service

"Victoria Hall Morning Service", 10.4.[38], JW

"Victoria Hall", ts, 7pp, 10.4.[38], [JW], evening service

"Victoria Hall", ts, 3pp, [10.4.38] hymns, prayers and readings

"Victoria Hall", ms, 9pp, 11.7.[?], WH

"Methodist", ts, 2pp, 8.8.[?], hymns, prayers, sermons and lessons at Victoria Hall

"Victoria Hall", ms, 5pp, 25.12.[?], WH

"Prayer Meeting", ms 5pp, 23.1.[?], JW

"Church of England Evensong", ts, 6pp

20/D Services and sermons

Observer accounts of services and sermons at the following churches:

"Moody Reception at St. Pauls Church", ms, 10pp, 31.3.37, JW

"Holy Trinity Church", ms, 7pp, 6.5.37, JW

"Well Street Mission", ms, 3pp, 20.6.[?], WH

"Church of England", ts, 1p, 25.7.[?] St. James, Waterloo St, Family Service

"St. Andrews Presbyterian", ms, 3pp, 24.12.[?], JW

"St. George's CE Church", ts, 6pp, 12.12[?], JW

"Holiness Tabernacle, Daubhill", ms, 3pp, 20.2.38, AVW

"Lenten Service at St. Georges Road C of E. Church", ts, 2pp, 10.3.38, JAS

"St. George's Rd. Congregational", ts, 4pp, 17.12.39, AH

"Service at Halliwell Road, Free Church (Unitarian)", ts, 6pp,6.3.38, BCP

"Service at St. Paul's Church, Halliwell Road", ts, 7pp, 10.3.38, [BCP]

"Halliwell Road Free Church",ms, 6pp, 19.9.[?], WH

"St. Marks Church", ts, 10pp, 27.2.[?], JW

"St. Marks", ts, 1p, 29.8.[?], BB

"St. Marks C.o E.", ms, 2pp, 29.12.[?], JW

"Order of Service St Johns, Folds Road", ms, 4pp, 13.3.38, WH, order of service leaflet attached

"St. John's Church, Folds Road, Bolton", ms, 3pp, 18.4.[38], WH

"St. Stephens", ms, 9pp, 29.8.37

"Saint Stephens Church", ts, 3pp, 29.8.37, CB, evening service

"St. Stephens", ts, 3pp, 29.8.37, evening service

"United Prayer Service", ms, 13pp, 7.1.[?], JW, St. Pauls Church, Astley Bridge

"St. Pauls Astley Bridge", ms, 4pp, 6.3.[37], WH, leaflet attached

"Claremont Street Baptist", ms, 2pp, 8.1.[?], WH

"Claremont, St. George's Rd", ts, 3pp, 17.12.39, AH

"Bethel Evangelistic Church Lower Bridgeman Street", ts, 3pp, 19.4.[?]

"Bethel Evangelical Church", ts, 5pp, 9.10.[?], [DT]

Index card, ms, 3.3.38, LT

Misc, ts, 1p, 8.8.[?]

20/E Roman Catholic church services

"Roman Catholic Church Services", ts, 2pp, TB, testimony by T.Binks, WEA student, former Catholic

"About the Catholic", ms, 10pp, TB

"Religious Function", ts, 2pp

Index card, ts, instructions on recording observations

Observer accounts of services at the following churches:

"St. Mary's R.C.", ms 2pp, 2.2.[?], WH

"Roman Catholic, St. Mary's Church", ts, 13pp, 27.2.[?], JW

"St. Mary's Mass", ts, 9pp, 13.3.[?], JW

"St. Mary's Stations of the Cross and Benediction", ts, 11pp, 13.3.[?], JW

"St. Mary's Mass", 9pp, 13.3.[?], JW

"St. Mary's R.C. Church", ms, 2pp, 27.5.[?], JW

"St. Mary's R.C. Church", ms, 7pp, 15.8.[?], WH

"St. Mary's R.C.", ms, 17pp, 29.8.[?], JW

"St. Mary's R.C. Church", 19.12.37, ms, 16pp, JW, service of Benediction

"St. Marys R.C. Christmas Mass", ms, 20pp, JW

"St. Marys 10 o' clock Mass", ms, 1p, 25.12.[?], WH

St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church Service", ms, 6pp, 20.2.38., AVW

"10.0 a.m. Mass at St. Mary's", ts, 6pp

"Church Services", ts, 1p, 17.12.39, BA, St. Marys, Palace Street, (incomplete)

"R. Catholic Mission", ts, 6pp, 13.3.[?], JW

20/F Roman Catholic processions and church services

Observer accounts of processions

"May Sunday Procession S.S. Peter & Pauls", ms 5pp, 2.5.37, TB

"St. Mary's R.C. Procession", ms, 4pp, 2.5.[37], JW

"St. Marys Procession", ms, 11pp, 2.5.[37], JW

"St. Patricks R.C. Procession", ms, 1p, 2.5.[37], WH

"St. Edmunds R.C.", ts, 2pp, 2.5.[37], [JW]

"St. Edmunds R.C.", ms, 10pp, 2.5.[37], JHW, Walking the Parish,

"St. Edmunds R.C. Church Procession", ms, 5pp, 2.5.[37], WH

"R.C.'s St. Patricks", ms, 5pp, 2.5.[37], THH, May Queen Procession

"Trinity Sunday Roman Catholic Procession", ts, 2pp, 23.5.37, THH

"Procession on Trinity Sunday", ts, 1p, [23.5.37]

Untitled document, ms, 3pp (lacks p1)

"R.C. Trinity", ms, 3pp, 23.5.[37], TB

"R.C. Trinity Sunday", ms, 13pp, 23.5.37, THH

"Trin Sun R.C. Proc", ts/ms, 25pp, [1939], WRL

Observer accounts of church services

"St. Edmunds R.C.", ms, 2pp, 2.2.[?], WH

"St. Augustine's Parish Mass", ts, 16pp, 6.3.[?], JW

"Ascension Day", ts, 1p, 6.5.[?], JS

"Horwich R.C. Walk", ms, 6pp 16.5.[?], THH

"Corpus Christi", ms, 1p, 27.5.[?], JW, St. Augustines, Tonge Moor

"St Peter and Pauls", ms, 2pp, 29.6.[?], JW

"Catholic", ts, 2pp, 29.8.37, Mass

"S.S. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic", ts, 2pp, 29.8.37, FHC

"St. Patricks Roman Catholic", ts, 4pp, 17.12.39, BA

"St. Patricks Church R.C.", ms, 6pp, 24.12.[?], JW

Misc, ms, 1p

Index cards (2)

Handbill, "An Extra Special Concert ...", 12.9.37

Booklet, "Annual Catholic Procession Trinity Sunday 1939"