Comments on: Collating Fr James

By: chris

chris — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:02:59 +0000

More history:St Bride’s was the church where I discovered I longed to be part of a church – even before I’d fallen off my donkey! (That happened a month later, in the Cathedral of The Isles. Singing has a lot to answer for)

By: Bishop's Chaplain

Bishop's Chaplain — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:19:23 +0000

When the bishop asks at the Senior Staff (gaiters) meeting tomorrow ‘ how do we move the church in this diocese forward?’ I will say ‘steam traction engines ,My Lord’ – and then duck for cover!

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:33:09 +0000

http://david-howse.fotopic.net/p24025917.html will give an idea of the subject under discussion.

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:28:53 +0000

He showed them to me. (Probably more than once).

By: Zebadee

Zebadee — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:25:53 +0000

Just as a historical note your grandfather actually worked on the last steam fairground engine produced by John Fowler and Co. He was always keen to show anyone the parts that he actually made.

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:09:13 +0000

My grandfather worked for a company which built steam traction engines. I never realised before that they had a liturgical purpose.

By: Bishop's Chaplain

Bishop's Chaplain — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:10:49 +0000

Perhaps we need more ‘steam traction engines’ to ‘pull’ the church to a new place.

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:41:22 +0000

Thanks JCL – the steam traction engine pulling the church to a new site is a marvellous image.

By: JCL

JCL — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:37:08 +0000

St Bride’s was founded as St Bride’s, Kelvinside in 1891 and remained so even after the church moved (literally – the original wooden building was towed by steam traction engine) from the original site in Beaconsfield Road to the new site in Hyndland in November 1899. And “St Bride’s, Kelvinside” we have been ever since according to our Constitution, despite the fact that many official bodies get it wrong.