The St Peter's Magazines for 1901

St Peter's Square, Nottingham in 1901 This series of articles has been put together by Keith Charter and Hugh Busher, greatly assisted by contributions from Peter Hoare, to set the scene on life at St Peter’s and its parish in 1901. These are based on recently discovered magazines of the time, and it seemed right to wait until the turn of the (real) millennium to provide a monthly series of articles on the theme '100 years ago'.

January 1901 - introduction, the parish
February 1901 - the death of Queen Victoria
March 1901 - the bell ringers
April 1901 - Church finances, Sunday Schools
May 1901 - the Penny Bank, marriages & baptisms
June 1901 - Sunday School treats and Rambles
July/August 1901 - activities of the Choir
September 1901 - Boer War ends, social outreach
October 1901 - Harvest and fundraising
November 1901 - Social outreach
December 1901 - new curate, religious outreach

Early in 1994 Mr Barry Chappell, from Chilwell, brought to the church an old volume he had discovered among his late mother’s possessions, a bound-up set of St Peter’s Church Magazine for the years 1901 and 1902. Mr Chappell had no idea how his mother had come by the volume. He allowed us to photocopy the magazine and we now have new insights into life at St Peter’s a hundred years ago that we intend to present monthly throughout 2001.

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