Foundation stone on Baptist Chapel, Chapel Lane, Golcar

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Foundation stone on Baptist Chapel, Chapel Lane, Golcar

Image: © Humphrey Bolton Taken: 19 Apr 2007

This is one of several similar stones along the front wall of the building, dated August 1896. This was after most of the various different groups of Baptists joined to form the Baptist Union in 1891. Crowther is a well-known name in this area; some of them were mill-owners.

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