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A cross in every window
The Mill Lane Independent Methodist Church shows its face to the road with some apt symbols. Originally a couple of houses, the movement bought them for around £650 in 1898 to create a new church.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 19 Jun 2021
0.02 miles
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2011 : Millanes at the end of Mill Lane, Cadbury Heath
Looking east.
The area to the right of Mill Lane is called The Batch indicating a disused coal mine.
Image: © Maurice Pullin
Taken: 17 Jan 2011
0.02 miles
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Mill Lane Independent Methodist Church
The Warmley area was once a place of heavy industry, with coal mines, quarrying and the Flock and Shoddy engineering works important employers in the nineteenth century. As is often the case when population numbers rise rapidly, there was a large uptake in church-going, particularly in the Methodist movement. However, the creation of several churches in the area proved to increase contention between various congregations. The Temperance Movement brought matters to a head and there was a split which resulted in this church being founded in 1899.
The building was originally two small houses, and was enlarged after the Independents took over. A new hall was built in 1973 and the church continues its work to this day.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 19 Jun 2021
0.03 miles
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Warmley. South Gloucestershire, Independent Methodist Church
The rock-faced frontage to the mainroad could mean a house but the side windows and the later extension to the rear gives the game away (apart from the signs that is too!)
Image: © ChurchCrawler
Taken: 27 Dec 2005
0.03 miles
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2011 : The King William, Cadbury Heath
Or the "King Billy" to the locals and, I believe, many others.
Those who knew him will recognise him from his portrait as William IV. The house may have been opened in the first half of the 19th century, or it might have been the second, anyway it was open 1881 when the landlord was Mr.H.Potter, a local butcher.
Image: © Maurice Pullin
Taken: 17 Jan 2011
0.07 miles
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Over and under in The Batch
Mill Lane crosses over the pedestrian underpass. Back in the times of the coal mines it was known as Hole Lane.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 19 Jun 2021
0.07 miles
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2011 : Tower Road South, Cadbury Heath
Heading south toward Oldland.
This was once a coal mining area but little remains now.
Image: © Maurice Pullin
Taken: 17 Jan 2011
0.07 miles
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Do the Right Thing
A banner on a section of railings on Mill Lane extoll the virtues of the Covid protocols. Beside it is a parish boundary stone.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 19 Jun 2021
0.08 miles
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The banks of the Siston Brook
Houses built in the late 1960s have encroached to the top of the steep banks.
Image: © Neil Owen
Taken: 19 Jun 2021
0.08 miles
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The Batch. Stream in North Common
The stream, bordered by trees viewed from the top of the grass slope in winter 2012/13.
Image: © Vickie
Taken: 18 Jan 2013
0.09 miles