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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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46 of 240  Wed 29th Mar 2017 1:39pm  

Hi all Wave It's a very small world! ************************* Tomorrow is a sad day for me as I am in attendance at another Crem' funeral tomorrow. Mixed emotions for me too, as the deceased is the younger sister of my first ever sweetheart, Marilyn. Marilyn was my Sunday-school sweetheart. I have not physically seen Marilyn since the age of 16, as she moved house with her parents & I went to Leeds Uni. It was over a month ago that Marilyn (who lives on the south coast) made email contact with me (making sure that I was who I am) asking if I could help make identification to folks on a photo, where her little sister Anita was a bridesmaid, sixty years ago. Now as odd as it may seem, when I was shown a picture of Anita from just a decade ago, I recognised her as being a water company employee doing a business study class at Tile Hill college where I was teaching. I had no idea about who she was at the time. Sad So real mixed emotions for me, meeting up for the first time in over fifty years, with the first young lady who made my heart miss a beat. In life or death, we just don't know, hey! Marilyn & me yesterday after the funeral service. Marilyn with her sister Anita during happier times.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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47 of 240  Thu 19th Sep 2019 2:11pm  

Hello, Today, it was our duty for Pam & I to say farewell to our neighbour, David. In a packed chamber, a lovely tribute was given for his life, a lot of nice words, as we might expect, but what I can endorse, David & Kath, being our next door neighbours for over 48 years, was his devotion to his roll as hubby & dad to his daughter & son, as well as Pop to his grandchildren. Not all families enjoy that privilege.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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48 of 240  Wed 29th Jan 2020 12:27pm  

Hi all I have been so tied by my wife's cancer illness, that I have only just learnt of the passing of a neighbour last year. Joyce Fowler, pictured here from the Telegraph. Joyce had been my gardening mentor, years ago she taught me how to grow tomatoes in the open. She had been poorly following on from a stroke, but was an aged gracious lady. The odd nature of our gardens. I have eight neighbours, Joyce's bungalow being a long walk from our house, us having such a long garden. We enjoyed many a chat over the garden fence. A very sad loss.
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Mick Strong
Coventry
49 of 240  Wed 17th Feb 2021 12:10pm  

As a young one, my elder sister and me were MADE to go to Sunday School by my mum. I first went to St Stephens and then to the Gospel Hall that are both on Charter Avenue near to where we used to live. Anyone else out there have the same treatment?
Mick Strong

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belushi
coventry
50 of 240  Wed 17th Feb 2021 12:15pm  

Yes. I was made to go to Sunday School until I was 12, because that was what my dad was made to do! I went to the Radford Congregational Church. It was also the headquarters of the 9th Coventry Scouts, of which I was a member until I was 18.
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Old Lincolnian
Coventry
51 of 240  Wed 17th Feb 2021 12:40pm  

I also went to Sunday School and my sister (who was twelve years older than me) taught there. I thought it was odd at the time as my family never went to church. I found out the reason later, it was because it was the only way my parents could get any time alone together.
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Helen F
Warrington
52 of 240  Wed 17th Feb 2021 12:45pm  

In my final year of primary school I went to a C of E school but unlike all my class mates I didn't attend Sunday school. To the dismay of my teacher, I was always best at answering the questions about the Bible stories. Finally she asked me how and I answered that there was always a Bible movie on tv during Sunday school and somehow the stories stuck better in cinemascope. Cool
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Mick Strong
Coventry
53 of 240  Wed 17th Feb 2021 12:49pm  

On 17th Feb 2021 12:40pm, Old Lincolnian said: I also went to Sunday School and my sister (who was twelve years older than me) taught there. I thought it was odd at the time as my family never went to church. I found out the reason later, it was because it was the only way my parents could get any time alone together.
Old Lincolnian Now you have said that, I can never remember my parents going to church, so I guess that sis and I were sent for the same reason as you.
Mick Strong

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JohnnieWalker
Sanctuary Point, Australia
54 of 240  Wed 17th Feb 2021 7:36pm  

I was taken to the Sunday School in Macdonald Road, just round the corner from home, when I was five years old. I quickly came to the conclusion that I wasn't interested in Bible stories and hymns, and walked out, never to return! Indoctrination, of any sort, wasn't for me, even at that age!
True Blue Coventry Kid

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Slim
Another Coventry kid
55 of 240  Thu 18th Feb 2021 12:23am  

I had a very similar experience to you, JW. My parents were not churchgoers, but my mother had always gone to Sunday School as a girl, she was always telling me, and made me go with a neighbour's little kids, who were slightly younger than I even. It was in the evening, and Sunday evening was always a miserable time for me, what with school looming the following day. We went to Saint John's (or Sinjuns as some pronounced it). From the word go I hated it. Actually, thinking about it, it probably wasn't Sunday School as such, but evening service. I liked music and singing, but the rest washed over my 7 or 8 year old head. I remember the vicar's sermon droning on about perceptive psychology. He might as well have been talking in a foreign language. I'd probably be fascinated by that sermon now. But totally inappropriate for a nipper, and I was only knee-high to a grasshopper's jock strap. My parents would have raised Cain if I'd requested to stop going ("children should be seen and not heard, wait till your father gets home, you'll gerra belt from yer da..."). So I over a period of weeks, I gradually got ready (this consisted of having a bath, doing my hair, then donning Sunday best) a little bit later and later each week, until the other kids' parents got fed up of waiting and stopped taking me. Result!
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Mick Strong
Coventry
56 of 240  Thu 18th Feb 2021 9:30am  

My sister is 3 years older than me, and it was her job to look after me on Sunday mornings at the Gospel Hall. She was actually friends of Sheila Hollingsworth whose dad ran the show. Anyway, I noticed that my sister was missing one Sunday and could not see her anywhere in the hall. On getting outside afterwards, there was my sis. After a brief chat of "don't tell mum & dad", she said she and some others had been playing in Ten Shilling Woods (just over the road from the Gospel Hall), and so that day was my indoctrination into wagging it. I must have attended for at least 2 years as I have 2 bibles that were given for attendance prizes. My mum could never understand why I only ever got a 2nd and 3rd attendance prize. (PS. still got the bibles)
Mick Strong

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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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57 of 240  Thu 18th Feb 2021 9:34am  

Hi all, Most know that I have a well founded faith in God, yet I detested Sunday school for most years. My family church was in Foleshill, but me growing up in Wyken, I was sent to Harefield Rd church Sunday school. Went on my bike, often passing the end of Harefield Rd on nice days in preference to Sunday school. I was grade eight piano at fifteen, so was sought after for providing accompaniment, so that kept me in touch. During my middle years, I doubted the reality of God, hypothesized that faith was some kind of hypnosis, which ticked all of the boxes when it just applied to me, but that didn't explain the events outside of me. Volunteering to play for services didn't make me a believer or "Christian", just as three decades of volunteering with Coventry Mind didn't make me a psychiatrist. I had to make my own mind up. I have. Love reading these experiences of you all.
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Dreamtime
Perth Western Australia
58 of 240  Thu 18th Feb 2021 9:51am  

I am going to tread very lightly on his subject because I was educated at St. Joseph's Convent, and no, I am not a catholic. Having said that I was never pressured to change my C of E faith and the nuns I had, and still do have, a great respect for. No matter what ills or spills befell me or loss of a family member my mum always said 'God is good' and that is as far as it went for me. I wonder what she would be saying now during this crisis we are all going through. So far He has been very good to me and I do have moments when I would agree with Him. Take care everyone. Smile
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Mick Strong
Coventry
59 of 240  Thu 18th Feb 2021 9:52am  

Hi Philip, great post!! Were your parents church goers? For mine, it was only weddings, christenings and funerals.
Mick Strong

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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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60 of 240  Thu 18th Feb 2021 10:11am  

Hi Mick. I can count on both hands the number of occasions when my dad went to church, but my mum was regular in attendance. She believed in worship, but it could have been more of a ritual. Hi Dreamtime. Thank you for your post. Delicate issues, but we are adult & show respect.
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