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Dra$ All Saints’ Archive images and classificaon 2019 Part 2 SAP_1_1_4 CEREMONIAL OCCASIONS AND SPECIAL SERVICES The Easter Saturday Vigil at All Saints’ 2016. Churchwarden Keith Tomlinson with the ArchbishoP of Canterbury Jusn Welby and Archdeacon of Worcester Nikki Groarke at Merry Hill, 2016. A service was held on a Sunday aernoon in the amphitheatre at Merry Hil. Ecumenical carol singing, Vicar Street Gardens Christmas 2017 6 volumes of biographies of Gornal and Sedgley’s servicemen of World War One, dedicated on Remembrance Sunday 2018. Barbara Price (researcher); Revd Guy HewleB (Team Rector, Gornal and Sedgley); a soldier From the Mercian Regiment. Palm Sunday Procession around All Saints’, 2018. This was the first year For some Hme that the procession didn’t start in the Church Hall. Remembrance Sunday Parade, 2018. All Saints’ Na6vity Play, 1947. Church Parade through Sedgley, 1960s Sunday School Parade c 1980s In July each year, there used to be a parade through Sedgley to mark the Founding oF the new church in 1929. Liz Williams on the right. Ascending the Church Tower on Ascension Day, probably 1960s. The liBle boy is called David. His brother and sister are unnamed in the arHcle. Ash Wednesday Service at All Saints’, March 2011 Revd Stephen Buckley, Len Millard, and Revd Rob Parker-McGee. Press cuZng (Express and Star) of Civic Service where new Mayor of Dudley, Michael Evans, affirms his dedicaon, 2011. Express and Star coverage oF the Civic Service that took place at All Saints' on 12 June 2011, with details oF Mayors From other councils who aended. The new mayor affirms his dedicaon to serving the people oF Dudley. Revd Stephen Buckley , vicar oF All Saints’ was his chaplain, hence the service at All Saints’. Chrisngle workshoP, 2013 Singing Charles Wesley’s Ascension Day hymn ‘Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise’, Thursday 14th May, 2015. Easter Vigil Service, Holy Saturday 2012 The Vigil on Holy Saturday, with the LighHng oF the Paschal Fire From the past year's Palm Sunday crosses, then lighHng the new Candle From that fire For the coming year. David Walker, then Bishop oF Dudley, came to every parish service in Holy Week. Remembrance Sunday Return Parade, Sunday 10th November 2013 Service to mark 100 years since the outbreak of World War One, August 2014 Remembrance Sunday Parade to church Passes through the bull Ring, 2014 All Saints’ Confirmands, c2015 Junior Church Navity Play, 2015 Palm Sunday Procession, 20th March 2016. Good Friday Ecumenical Service in the bull Ring , 25th March 2016. Ligh6ng the Easter Fire at All Saints’, Easter Saturday 26th March, 2016. Canon Jan Humphries and Kath Apperley. SAP_1_1_5 CLERGY, LAY MINISTERS, CHURCH OFFICIALS AND STAFF Includes Rectors; Vicars; Curates, Lay Ministers, Churchwardens, Choirmasters, and Parish Assistant. VICARS Revd John Best, Vicar 1779-1826 Best died in 1813. His successor, unHl around 1817, was Henry Antrobus Cartwright (1779-1859), oF a Dudley Family. He was recorded in 1851 as living with his brother, Cornelius Cartwright, a surgeon, in Dudley. Then came a John Bradley, From 1817, who died at KingswinFord in 1825. Revd Charles Girdlestone, Vicar Vicar 1826-1837. Charles Girdlestone is one oF the best known oF all our past vicars. He was brought in by the Earl oF Dudley to oversee the rebuilding oF All Saints' which was completed in 1829. He had many illustrious Friends made during his Hme at OxFord (e.g. Cardinal Newman) and quite a Few oF them came to Sedgley to help raise Funds For the church by giving 'celebrity' sermons. He was influenHal on the board oF public health at the Hme oF the cholera epidemic which decimated many villages in the Black Country. He published his own sermons and obtained many celebrity subscribers as a means oF Fundraising. The Hon. Adelbert Anson, Vicar 1870-76. Revd Thomas Greenall Swindell, Vicar 1888-1929 Revd TG Swindell, vicar of All Saints’ 1888- 1929 The straw hut-style summerhouse was in the vicarage garden. Revd Harold Marley, Vicar 1930-39. Revd Trevor Kilborn, Vicar 1940-46. Vicar oF All Saints' 1940-1946. Revd Kilborn was educated at Wellingborough and then did a 2 year course in Administraon. He obtained a BA (Hons) at Leicester University and went on to read Theology at Bishops College, Cheshunt (the college buildings are now the Heriordshire Council Offices). He was appointed Deacon in 1930 and Priest in 1931. He was curate at All Hallows, Lombard St, London From April 1933 to October 1935 when he le3 to "undertake a Further course oF study at London University". He was appointed vicar at St Mary Magdalene, Enfield on 5th June 1936. He then le3 there in June 1940 and came to Sedgley. He died in 1965. This inFormaon is From St Mary Magdalene Enfield's website: Date oF birth Sep 1905 Registered in KeBering (3b187) It is reported in the April 1936 ediHon oF the Parish Magazine that the Rev. Trevor H.H.Kilborne. B.A. had been appointed as the new vicar. His age was not menHoned; but he was educated at Wellingborough and then took a two-year course in administraon work. He took his B.A. at Leicester (Honours English). He then read theology and prepared For Ordinaon at Bishops' College, Cheshunt. He was appointed Deacon in 1930 and Priest in 1931. He was travelling Secretary For the Student ChrisHan Movement. In 1933 he was Curate oF All Hallows, Lombard St. and Secretary oF a society working For the Unity oF the Churches. He is keenly interested in music and holds views oF that oF a Broad churchman. The Fact that he has a wiFe is also menHoned in passing. InducHon at St Mary Magdalene on Friday 5th June 1936. A3er St Mary Magdalene he became Vicar oF Sedgley. He died in 1965. Press arcle (Dudley Herald) about Revd William Sargeant, Vicar of All Saints’ 1946-56. Vicar Sargeant, 1950s Revd Stanley Lloyd, Vicar 1957-70 Revd John Linford, 1970-78 Revd Peter Ashby, Vicar 1993-98 TEAM RECTORS Revd Canon StePhen buckley Stephen was Vicar oF All Saints’ and Rector oF Gornal and Sedgley Team Ministry From 2000-2015. TEAM VICARS Revd Andy Stand Revd Andy Stand was Team Vicar For Gornal and Sedgley Team Ministry 2008-13. He lived in the Former vicarage in Upper Gornal. Licensing of Revd Catherine Mitchell, 7thMay 2017 CURATES John William Cadogan Jones, Curate 1913-17; 1919-23 Revd JWC Jones graduated BA From St David's College Lampeter in 1908. He went to be curate at Stambermill [no doubt how he came to marry a woman in Stourbridge RD] in Worcester diocese, and was deaconed in 1909 and priested in 1911. From Stambermill, he moved to All Saints' in 1913, where he stayed For Four years. He le3 to be curate at St Paul's, Wolverhampton - he was only there 1917-19, and then came back to Sedgley 1919-23. He le3 to be vicar oF St Thomas's, Mow Cop, on the Cheshire-Staffordshire border. He resigned From Mow Cop on 6 May 1932. There is a death record oF John W C Jones in Cheadle RD [Staffs], DecQ 1959, aged 76. This makes his birth likely to be LlandiloFawr RD, JunQ 1883. Married MarQ 1913, to Gladys Stevens. Revd George William H. Alcock, Curate 1927 – 1931. G. H. A. bateman was curate 1939 and le$ by January 1944 G. H. A. Bateman was curate 1939 and le3 by January 1944; J. W. Wilson arrived then, but he seems to have le3 shortly aer the March 1944 magazine issue. J. K. Barnes arrived in June 1944 and was sHll there in December 1945. The next one I can find is 1947-9, Geoffrey Dickenson; would be logical iF Barnes did three years 1944-7. Anyway, looks like Barnes, not Bateman. J. W. Wilson arrived then, but he seems to have le$ shortly a$er the March 1944 magazine issue J. K. Barnes arrived in June 1944 and was sll there in December 1945. The next one I can find is 1947-9, Geoffrey Dickenson Brian Skelding, Curate 1950-53 (Donald) Brian Skelding was deaconed in 1950, priested 1951, David ChaPman, Curate 1954 - Roland Oliver was curate 1959- 62. ?? Revd Andrew Collins, Curate 1962. Revd Adelbert Andrew Collins, Curate 1961 -77 Rev Collins was ordained in Lichfield in 1961 and, aer being curate at All Saints in Sedgley, served as rector at St Mary the Virgin Church, in Enville, beFore his reHrement in 1990. But he sHll conHnued taking church services well into his 90s. His Funeral was held at St Mary the Virgin on January 5 Following his death on December 2016 aged 101. Revd Michael Clarke, Curate 1963-4. Michael Clarke, curate 1963/4, during Revd Lloyd’s Hme. He lodged with Brenda Baker in the house opposite the vicarage. Tragically he had a ‘hole in the heart’ which was very serious. He had been bedridden in the past. He later went into Westminster Hospital where sadly he died. Ian Keith Chisholm Curate 1966-69 Ian Keith Chisholm was curate 1966-9 Revd PhiliP Hughes, Curate 1989-94 Fr. Phil's last service at All Saints' was on Sunday, 2nd January 1994 and some parishioners aended his InducHon at Boscoppa, Cornwall on Mon 17th January 1994. He then went on to become Chaplain at Gatwick Airport, Following that, he became chaplain at Heathrow Airport. He then went to be vicar at Seghill with Seaton Delaval and Holywell. In February 2013 he was licensed as Area Dean oF Bedlington Deanery by Bishop Frank White. Revd Eric Petrie, Curate 1995-98.