A 96 year old prize!

[JohnPitt]

Having a "Spring clean" today and came across an old Bible - not an unusual item in our house, and I had seen this Phillip Lord Warton Bible before, but rever realised it was heirloom and awarded to my father when he was a 9 year old attending Sunday School in Tylorstown!

Anybody knew M J Livings or knew of the Superintendant? and where was the "Mission Room"? it must have been somewhere in Tylorstown.

[valpowell35]

As a previous resident of Tylorstown I had not heard of the mission room, so I started to look online. I found this item linked below which mentions mission services but although it does not give a clear idea of where they were held, the item makes interesting reading.

I used to know someone with the surname of Livings in Tylorstown but details evade me now. Obviously it was not the man in question!! (Ha ha!)

http://www.pillars-of-faith.com/comm_re ... 17&RecNo=1

[JohnPitt]

........... the item makes interesting reading.

I used to know someone with the surname of Livings in Tylorstown but details evade me now....

Fascinating Val.

The 1911 Census reveals a sizeable Livings family at 202 East Road Tylorstown (Head came from Lampeter) - but no M.J. Could be another family at 6 St Johns Terrace Glynfach Porth with an 18 year Old son J Livings who would be 23 in 1916 or his wife if he had married!

One certainly gets the impression that the non-conformist churches had more freedom of movement financially than the 'Established' church. `
I notice one of the Mission halls was in a Coffee tavern! My Father eventually joined the Christadelphians who had their meeting room a few doors away from the Fendale Coffee tavern in Pleasant Hill.

[davie202]

Hello John Pitt
first of all I am not conversant with the Livings family at 202 East Road, Tylorstown but can tell you I grew up at that address from 1948 and my granddad before that, (Humphreys Family) I being David,
John, in my younger days in Tylorstown attending Tylorstown junior school (Edmund Street) at the back of my mind the Mission hall my mother attended was directly opposite the Tylorstown infants (top part of the school as you climb the hill) just a small ground level building that was also used as the school meals kitchen later to become the St John's Ambulance and now with a house built in it's place on that plot to the present day.
This is the best of my knowledge but should the info be wrong I apologize in advance,
Yours, Dave Humphreys.

[JohnPitt]

Hello John Pitt ... at the back of my mind the Mission hall my mother attended was directly opposite the Tylorstown infants (top part of the school as you climb the hill) just a small ground level building that was also used as the school meals kitchen later to become the St John's Ambulance ....
Yours, Dave Humphreys.

Thanks for that Dave - must have been the "mission" on this bible. Tylorstown was my father's home town I lived all my boyhood in Ferndale. How interesting.
Thank you!