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Bert Bissell MBE (9 January 1902 [1] – 2 November 1998) was a mountain climber and peace campaigner. Born at Dudley, Worcestershire, in January 1902, he founded the Young Men's Bible Class at Vicar Street Methodist Church in the town in 1925. The bible class remained at the church for 83 years, relocating to nearby Dixons Green Methodist ...
Dudley grew in the early 19th century, so that the existing churches, of St Edmund and St Thomas, were insufficient for the population.St James was built as a sister church to St John's Church in the Kates Hill area of Dudley; both were designed in Early English style by William Bourne and were built from 1838 to 1840.
Dr. J Dudley Woodberry (born 1934) is dean emeritus and senior professor of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary School of Intercultural Studies, specializing in Islamic Studies. While most of Woodberry's time has been spent teaching and writing for scholarly publications, he has also served for many years in Pakistan, Saudi ...
Gervase founded a Cluniac priory in Dudley dedicated to St James, [9] [10] fulfilling a wish of his father, Ralph. [11] It is also thought that he founded the Church of St Thomas in Dudley. [12] The church was originally dedicated to Thomas Becket, who was killed in 1170 and canonized in 1173. Gervase attended the coronation of King Richard I ...
The Archives and Local History Service looks after a collection that is housed in the purpose built Archives and Local History Centre in Dudley and includes records dating back to the 12th century. They hold original archive material including business ledgers, local authority correspondence and minutes, maps and school records.
The Dudley School was a mixed comprehensive school in Dudley, West Midlands, England. It was founded in 1975 on the merger on the town's two single-sex grammar schools, Dudley Grammar School and Dudley Girls High School, was located on the two sites near Dudley town centre. The formation of the school also involved a merger with Park Secondary ...
On the 17th he was given a license to preach, and two days later was ordained and made the Church's salaried pastor. He remained in this position until 1889. In September 1890, Dudley and his family left Otsego, moving to Grand Rapids, Michigan. There, he became Pastor Emeritus of the Berean Baptist Church, an office he held for only a year.
There is also a thriving Salvation Army Church in Dudley on North Street. Dudley also has places of worship for other religious groups and Christian denominations, including a Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall, two Sikh gurdwaras, and a Hindu temple. The old St Edmund's Church School, which closed in 1970 on a merger with St John's Church School ...