Quakers return to Crewe after 90 years
Regular Quaker worship has moved back to Crewe for the first time since 1922
Regular worship among Friends in the Crewe and Nantwich area has moved back to Crewe for the first time since 1922. Meetings for Worship take place at the Coppenhall Methodist Centre, Bradfield Road at 3pm on the second and fourth Sundays of each month.
Four months after the move to Crewe, the Meeting is in the process of re-establishing itself, elder Janice Masterton told the Friend. A clerk and a treasurer have been appointed. The group is working towards holding weekly Meetings for Worship, although this is still some way off, Janice said.
Local Friends have spent the last two and a half years meeting in a Methodist chapel in Poole, offered to them by the reverend Malcolm Lorimer, the superintendent of the Cheshire South Methodist Circuit.
The return to Crewe was prompted by a need to be ‘in the thick of it’, said Janice.
‘In Poole we felt isolated in a well-off community. Crewe has been going through hard times and we wanted to be able to help.’
Quakers have been active in Crewe and Nantwich since just after the English civil war.
A Meeting house was built in 1725, and in use until 1922. It is now the Nantwich Players Theatre.
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