Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Lowestoft Fisherman's and Sailor's Bethel is a theatre and community hub in Lowestoft, Suffolk. It is owned by The Lowestoft Players [1] Amateur Dramatic Society and now called The Players Theatre, although 'The Bethel' still remains a popular name. The venue has seating in the multi-purpose auditorium for 200 people seated.
Built by the New Bedford Port Society, it was completed on May 2, 1832.It is a contributing property to the New Bedford Historic District, a National Historic Landmark.. The Seamen's Bethel was specifically constructed for the many sailors who called New Bedford their home port (mostly whalers), who considered it a matter of tradition that one visited the chapel before setting sail.
Seamen's Bethel, Boston; Metadata. This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.
The Hull Seamen's Union was a trade union representing sailors based in Kingston-upon-Hull, in England. The union was founded in 1883 as the Hull Sailors' Mutual Association, and in 1887 it renamed itself as the Hull Seamen's and Marine Firemen's Association. In 1913, it changed its name to the "Hull Seamen's Union". [1]
Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.
Bethel ship moored at Mardyke (Floating Harbour, Bristol), 1892 Work of seamen's charities in Bristol, 1892. In Bristol a branch of the Seamen's Friend Society and Bethel Union was established in 1820. [3] In 1821 the hulk of the Aristomenes was purchased, fitted as a place of worship and moored at The Grove in Bristol. Dubbed 'The Ark' it ...
The Port Society renamed the chapel the Seamen's Bethel, and at the end of the year Edward Thompson Taylor was hired as Mariner's Preacher. The chapel in Methodist Alley proved too small for the growing congregation, and a new church was built at 12 North Square in 1833.
She left the Daltry Street Junior School, Hull at the age of 14 and worked as a cod skinner. She married Carmelo [Charlie] Bilocca (1902–1981), a Maltese sailor who worked with the Hull-based Ellerman-Wilson Line, and later as a trawlerman. [1] They had two children – Ernest (b. 1946) and Virginia (b. 1950).