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| Name: | paul foster |
| E-mail address: | foster7jl@btinternet.com |
| Comments: | old school boy of st albans great old church |
| Name: | Andre R Sintome |
| E-mail address: | andysintome@bigpond.com |
| Comments: | Around 1957 I was a choir boy at St Albans and the organist and choir master was Mr Roy Massey. I have very fond memories of those years that I spent there as a Choir boy. We sang at many churches around Birmingham at the time. Roy Massey also took all the younger choir boys youth hostelling to the Isle of White. It was a fantastic time of my life. |
| Name: | Mark Edwin Arstall |
| E-mail address: | mark-arstall@kings-heath.freeserve.co.uk |
| Comments: | Researching artists of the Birmingham School, including Kate Bunce, Henry Payne and Sidney Meteyard. Thank you for preserving the evidence! Everything looks in wonderful condition.
For the record, Myra Bunce died 13 Nov 1918, which raises the question of who completed the inscription on the reredos. Regarding the sisters: Kate was born 25 Aug 1856. Edith Anne(Ann)lived 1850 - 1878 and a fourth sister sister Alice died in infancy (1852 - 1853). I'm looking for the Bunce family link to St Alban's. Will post here if I find it! |
| Name: | Jo |
| E-mail address: | jo_west@talktalk.net |
| Comments: | FOund Fellowship of Contemplative prayer leaflet in Howick Church Northumberland recently and think they're great. Would like to order more copies and wondered if there is an online way to do this?! |
| Name: | Mick Stokes |
| E-mail address: | ronaandmick@talktalk.net |
| Comments: | Was once cosidering being a choirboy there, sometime in the fifties when Mr Isaacson went there from King's Norton |
| Name: | m martin |
| E-mail address: | mtmartin @blueyonder .co.uk |
| Comments: | would like to have the opportunity to visit the church and get to know more about it but don't know how to go about it. i have come by on two occasions but have not been able to enter. now that i have found tghis website maybe iam on the right track. if not i shall keep trying. |
| Name: | dave dudley |
| E-mail address: | davekdudley@gmail.com |
| Comments: | My grandparents lived at 11 the sycamores from about 1914,until their Backhouse was demolished in the 50s was just across Stanhope Street from St. Albans.
The family church however was St david's on Bissell St, But that also was demolished in 1947. |
| Name: | dave dudley |
| E-mail address: | davekdudley@gmail.com |
| Comments: | My grandparents lived at 11 the sycamores from about 1914,until their Backhouse was demolished in the 50s was just across Stanhope Street from St. Albans.
The family church however was St david's on Bissell St, But that also was demolished in 1947. |
| Name: | Fr. David Brecknell |
| E-mail address: | david.brecknell@tesco.net |
| Comments: | I knew Saint Alban's in the 1960s, when I was Senior Curate at Solihull and used to com to Fr Harding's Confessional.
I was sorry to see how much the building has suffered since then. |
| Name: | John Harper |
| E-mail address: | harpers25@bigpond.com |
| Comments: | I was christened and confirmed in your magnificent church, served as an altar boy and was a member of the church choir. I unfortunately haven't set foot inside since 1958, but hope to change that on my next visit to the city. I find your web site very informative. |
| Name: | Janet Ward |
| E-mail address: | janetmwuk@yahoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | My Grandfather (Spaull) was verger there in the 30's and uncles were in the choir. We came to that church as young children until we moved to Hall Green.
I always remember the crib there, and the chapel full of flowers for the vigel at Easter. |
| Name: | Davud Craig |
| E-mail address: | david@baxadmirer.fsnet.co.uk |
| Comments: | Member of S. Alban's congregation, attended off and on since 1959. I feel forward in faith churches help a great deal towards my spiritual needs.
S Alban's is a beautiful church. It must be kept so. |
| Name: | Barry Selwood |
| E-mail address: | bselwood21@gmail.com |
| Comments: | checking time of mass |
| Name: | rev carl eric malins |
| E-mail address: | revcarlericmalins@live.co.uk |
| Comments: | i would like to visit your church but i dont know what times you are open in the week days |
| Name: | Norma Aldeghi |
| E-mail address: | mamadeghi@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | My uncle Charles Owen was a choir boy many many years ago. I have fond memories of attending church on Palm Sunday with my aunt, Eva Owen. |
| Name: | Geraldine Martin |
| E-mail address: | geraldinemartin95@gmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://n/a |
| Comments: | My grandparents are buried there. |
| Name: | valerie dodd |
| E-mail address: | dodd_valerie@yahoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | i attended st albans church and school from 1958 at the age of five.i was in the old and new scool till i left at the age of 15.i went to church every sunday,and father harding and father stock were in charge,father stock left to help other people in the world love ti know if he is still around so pleased the old church is still going strong |
| Name: | Clive and Jean Bradley |
| E-mail address: | the_bsinspain@yahoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | Thank you for the warm welcome on Sunday 18th April when our Grandson Lewis was christened into the church family. |
| Name: | William Thow |
| E-mail address: | tillywow@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Very nice |
| Name: | diane upton |
| E-mail address: | regal4567@yahoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | i was baptised in st albans church in 1949. my parents married there in 1948. their names were william and gladys barrett, and we all lived in stanhope street until 1958. father harding was the parish priest at that time assisted by father stock. i attended the church each sunday morning and sunday school in the afternoon and went to st. albans old school. i was also in the brownies which was run from the tin tac next to the church which sadly has been knocked down. it was lovely to find this website, it brought brought back many memories of a beautiful church in a bygone age. i am delighted that it is still thrieving today and continues to have so many people who care for it. |
| Name: | stephen foulger |
| E-mail address: | stephen_foulger@hotmail.co |
| Comments: | I was wondering what the congregations of your three churches maybe considering in the light of the new structure enablng dissaffected Anglican groups to join the Catholic Church.The influence of the community of St.Albans within the Achdioscese of Birmingham is considerable, four previously Anglican priests all previously associated with St.Albans in various capacities having all had "re-treads" as catholic priests now have parishes;and to my surprise and arising out of the recent unexpected and sudden death of my wife,I have discovered that our recently appointed p.p.a late vocation was a layman worshipping at St. Albans at one time which accounts for several of his innovations having a familar feelforme. It seems that our two faith communitiies are closer than we realise and that St.Albans already has a degree of recogntion and respect amongst local catholics greater than you might realise
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