Which parts of the area are included in Pokesdown? A PDF of the maps is available here where they can be enlarged for easier viewing. Here is a map showing the 1859 boundary of the then new Parish of St James, Pokesdown – based on the description given by J.A. Young147 – note, it covers a …
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History: Page 4
1947 to 1962 The move to our current building… Whilst the search and wait for a new Minister took from July 1947 to August 1948, Rev. Franklin Chambers, retired minister of West Cliff Baptist Church, helped look after RPBC. 71 Eric Peter Sharpe led the worship one Sunday in January 1948, was invited to preach …
History: Page 2
The Rosebery Park Estate 1. In the 1880s ‘Freemantle’ was the name for the area between Pokesdown and Boscombe. The nucleus of the original Rosebery Park Baptist fellowship came from the Baptist Mission Chapel at Freemantle, opened in 1889, on the same site now occupied by the present Rosebery Park Baptist Church building (812-814 Christchurch …
History: Page 5
Pokesdown in the 1960s… The date of this photo is unknown, but it is after RPBC moved into this building (formerly known as “Keswick Hall”) in 1952, and BEFORE the alterations to the front of the building carried out in 1969/70. (See below for more on this). “The 15 firemen who are the Pokesdown fire-fleet, …
Pokesdown: the name.
Earliest known written records with the name “Pokesdown”: Year: c.1586. Evidence: Richard Morris of Pokesdown, Christchurch on a list of people fined for buying pirates’ goods (part of The Cecil Papers).124d Year: 1660. Evidence: Henry Mantle of Pokesdown elected a churchwarden of Christchurch Priory. Year: 1662-63. Evidence: churchwarden accounts record the receipt of one shilling from Henry Mantle of Pokesdown in …
History: Page 3
Rosebery Park Baptist Church, 1923 to 1947… Rev. James Greig Douglas oversaw further expansion work on the chapel, with the addition of a pulpit, choir stalls and a gallery in 1925. For the three months this building work was being carried out, the Sunday services were held in the Technical Hall. A new organ with …
More from the British Newspaper Archive
A PDF of the newspaper articles is available here. They are images, and not plain text, but they can at least be enlarged for easier viewing this way. The British Newspaper Archive has digitised copies of The Bournemouth Guardian newspaper from September 1883 to December 1921. 1883, population of Freemantle mentioned in this letter: A description …
The History of Rosebery Park Baptist Church and Pokesdown:
Page 1. Setting the Scene… The Mid to Late Victorian Era in Pokesdown and Boscombe In 1867, the entry in a Christchurch Directory describes Pokesdown as “an increasing and thriving village” whilst “Boscombe is a hamlet near Pokesdown which is daily increasing.”1 William Pickford moved to Pokesdown, aged ten, in 1871, as the son of …
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The History of Rosebery Park Baptist Church in Pokesdown: Summary
Rosebery Park Baptist Church was founded in 1891. Consistent with what a church is, that is, a group of people, not a building, the church started as a group of people meeting together and the building followed. The first building was about half a mile away from the present building, on the junction of Morley …
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