Hidden Treasure
Today has been a busy morning sorting out some of the mountains of paperwork that has accumulated in the office. Some of it dates back to 1933: beautiful copperplate handwriting with a fountain pen in dedicated minute books. Lovely. PCC meetings haven't changed much in the last 89 years it has to be said. But in amongst the dusty boxes there was some hidden treasure: we found some copies of the Parish Magazine from 1900 and 1929. Amazing. All work stopped immediately to check out what was happening in and around the parish in the 1900's. So, in December 1929 St. Peter's Boys' School celebrated their prize giving whilst the Mothers' Union had a talk on The Religious Education of Children from 4-8 years (trust the MU to be having a good time!). St. Augustine's held a family Gathering at the Alexandra Theatre and Lady Lucas-Tooth gave: " a winsome little speech" to open the proceedings and the new Mayor showed up. The Octagon Church congregation were