We have the following images of Bolton Top’oth Brow Independent Methodist Church in our archives.
This church was established in 1937 on Winchester Way, Breightmet in Bolton. The IM Church closed in 1994. The building still appears to be in use (2019) by Bright Meadows Christian Fellowship.
Archive Items
Magazine Entries
Member Obituaries
In the archives, we hold the following items from this church:
- Registers: (Baptism Registers 1937 – 1992)
- Trustees’ Records: (Trustees’ Correspondence and documents various dates relating to closure – one file)
- Church Minutes and correspondence, etc.: (Minute Books 1837 – 1994; Minutes of working committee (bundle) 1937 – 1941; Correspondence with Home Missions – one file 1991 – 1993)
- Sunday School: (Minutes 1972 – 1990)
- Financial Records: (Accounts 1955 – 1960, 1964 – 1994; Balance Sheets 1938, 1939, 1941, 1946, 1952, 1956 – 1983; Building Fund bank books 1937 – 1957; Receipts 1992 – 1994; Accounts re fire damage 1972; Records of theft 1993; Insurance records – one folder)
- Miscellaneous Items: (Stonelaying Ceremony for extension 1957; Opening of extension 1957; Anniversary and Gift Day 1961; Commemorative Booklet 1961; Church Newsletters (various dates) 1968 – 1989; Agreement with Bolton Borough Council 1984; Miscellaneous folder – items of historic interest; Scripture Examination winners’ banner)
Year | Page in Magazine |
1935 | 163 (proposed work) |
1936 | 27, 101 |
1937 | 72, 98 (stonelaying), 123,127, 145 (opening), 175-6 |
1938 | 15, 51 (membership constituted), 66, 87, 107 |
1939 | 14 (extension made) |
1943 | 16 |
1946 | 32 |
1947 | 72 |
1949 | 40, 71 |
1954 | 42 (v. fruitful mission) |
1958 | 132 (21st. Anniversary) |
1961 | 47 |
1963 | 96, 147 |
1967 | 186 (intro), 198 |
1970 | 175 |
1971 | 160 |
1972b | 44 (damaged by theft), 163 (reopening) |
1973 | 19, 185 |
1975 | 8 |
1976 | 115 |
1977a | 1-18 (Youth Weekend), 2-23 |
1977b | 11-5, 11-10, 11-16 |
1978 | 3-7, 5-1, 8-16 |
1979 | 2-9, 4-12 |
1980 | 2-13, 2-16, 6-10 |
1982 | 41033 |
1983 | 41217 |
1984 | 41214 |
1985 | 2-3 (baptisms), 2-6, 8-3 |
1986 | 41155 |
1987 | 2-12, 3-4, 3-14, 5-16, 7-7 |
1988 | 3-11, 11-14 |
1994 | 9-8, 12-3 (closure) |
1996 | 12-2 (sold) |
Name | Year | Page in Magazine | ||
Joseph | Charleston | 1949 | 15 | |
H. | Widdup | 1964 | 206 | |
Mrs. | E | Widdup | 1970 | 80 |
Mrs.E. | Greenhalgh | 1973 | 21 | |
A. | White | 1973 | 21 | |
Rowena | Bates | 1992 | Mar | |
Jean | Small | 1993 | Apr | |
William | A | Owen | 1995 | Dec |