A London Underground sign for Bethnal Green subway station. Photo: By Maggie Jones on Flickr.
Where the heart is: Catriona Forrest on Meeting places
‘All we need is to make sure that someone pays the rent and buys the biscuits.’
Some Friends are feeling heartbreak and anger over losing – or facing the possibility of losing – their Meeting house. It’s a feeling I have compassion for, but have not experienced. Not because my Meeting house is secure, but because my beloved Local Meeting has not had one for as long as I’ve been a Quaker – not for almost ninety years, although our Meeting dates back much further than that, all the way back to 1655.