Portrait of a Meeting
Gordon Steel looks back over the life of a new-ish Quaker Meeting
Sutton Meeting is a newcomer within the life-span of Britain Yearly Meeting. Founded in 1932 with the help of Friends from long-established meetings in Croydon, Purley and Mitcham, it has no deep-rooted tradition but it has displayed a certain liveliness. Perhaps surprisingly, its archives have been well-kept and they paint a picture of a Meeting that flourished during its first two generations but which is now showing the strains of modern times.
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