Eye - 10 July 2015
From quaking to glitches
Quaking Quakers
Friends in Newbury are under threat from redevelopment plans for the town.
In an article sent to their local paper, entitled ‘Quakers quaking over redevelopment plans’, Friends draw residents’ attention to the potential loss of the Meeting house if redevelopment plans go ahead.
Friends write: ‘Quakers have been worshipping in Newbury for some 350 years, and have been in their current location since 1955 when they bought the Highfield Avenue house and garden. The old Quaker burial ground lies just to the front of the building under an old Horse Chestnut tree.’
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