St Paul's Church and Sunday School

St. Paul's Church still stands behind what was the original St.Pauls C.E. school, which is now an educational  centre.

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We attended Sunday School in the afternoon and there we would learn Bible stories and have colouring sheets to complete or fashion a simple piece of craftwork. Choruses that told stories would be sung: "Zacheus was a very little man . . ."

The church seemed a big place to attend after the cosiness of the Sunday School rooms. The stained glass window portrayed the shepherd and sheep and I think it has the words,"I am the good shepherd." 
The approach to the church was by way of a long, windy and steep drive and the sloping land was well planted with spring flowers and azalea bushes. At the bottom of the drive there was a large laburnum tree - my friend's brother decided to eat some of the "helicopter" seed pods and had to have his stomach pumped.

On Mothering Sunday all the children attended a special service and would present our mothers with tiny bunches of primroses, violets or daffodils.

At Harvest time the church was always beautifully decorated with fresh fruit, vegetables and flowers. Children were encouraged to fill a shoe box with fresh produce or groceries which would be distributed to needy parishoners.
On Rememberance Sunday the current vicar would walk around the church and from the tablets read out the names of servicemen who had been killed in action.

Christmas seemed to come soon afterwards and the church would be decorated with a large tree. The first service on Christmas Day was one where children were allowed to take one of their new toys to "show off".

The church, during winter, seemed to be very cold and the coke boiler was housed underneath the main body of the church and once it was "stoked up" you could smell the  fumes as they rose up and into the church. Dad was a church warden and I used to go with him to check the church and the vicarage during times of interregnum. He also used to sell Christmas cards to raise funds, I loved helping him to collate the orders and help him to distruibute them.


I cannot remember whether it was a regular event, but I remember being allowed to attend the Sunday School camp at Bridgnorth one year.

Shirley: 3rd Left Front Row

We camped on land that was near to the River Severn and in the middle of the week our parents came to visit.