60 years of support for local church
September 26 to Sunday, September 29. Lewis Beddison from the group said: “All old buildings such as our church need to be maintained with care but on HIsTorIC Pinner Parish Church occasion more extensive restoration becomes neclocal group celebrates 60 essary. In 1953 having completed years of supporting Pinner substantial work on the roofs, the Parish Church. church authorities were faced with the The Friends of Pinner Parish Church need to contain damp beneath. goal is to help preserve and improve “This involved excavation and putting the fabric, buildings and precincts of new ?oors inside the church. An appeal the parish church. to the wider public was then launched Founded in 1953 it is celebrating its under the name “Friends of Pinner 60th anniversary with a weekend of Church Appeal.” continued its fundraising work. In 1953 early ‘Friends’ contributed 1/(5p) weekly, some of which came from house to house collection. In 1987 the organisation became a registered charity under its present title since when it has been able to ?nance continued external repairs, a renewed lighting system drain repairs a CCTV system and, within the last year, it was able to donate over £200,000 towards the work on the roof and tower. Lewis added: “We now look forward to our anniversary celebrations. There will be many attractions, evening concerts, displays of art and embroidery, sales tables, tower and hand-bell ringing and a balloon race – additional attractions seem to be o?ered day by day.”
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social and fund raising activities centred on a ?ower festival, Friday
The response to the initial appeal was such that the organising group
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