BRIDGE METHODIST CHURCH, RADCLIFFE (formerly Wesleyan Methodist)

CRB/1 Leaders Meeting Minute Books 1873-1928

CRB/2 Committee Minute Books 1960-1977

CRB/3 Baptism Registers 1816-1877

CRB/4 Membership Register 1895-1961

CRB/5 Society Stewards' [Quarterly Collection Accounts] Books 1855-1909

CRB/6 Cash Book [Collections for Poor Members] 1854-1882

CRB/7 Collections Journals 1873-1962

CRB/8 Pulpit Notices Books 1924-1926

CRB/9 Service sheets and Souvenir Booklets 1898-1946

CRB/10 Bealey Family Memorabilia 1847-1915

Chapel Trust

CRB/11 Trustees & Building Committee Minute Books 1876-1958

CRB/12 Pew rent Account Books 1858-1943

CRB/13 Trustees' Account Books 1884-1983

CRB/14 Trustees' Treasurer's Bank Books 1901-1933

CRB/15 Trustees' Treasurer's Accounts Received Files 1889-1936

CRB/16 Trust Secretary's Papers 1879-1958

Associated Organisations

CRB/17 Sick Society Minute Books 1857-1914

CRB/18 Young Mens' Mutual Improvement Class Minute Book 1870-1894

School Trust

CRB/19 School Building Committee/Trustees' Minute Books 1902-1938

CRB/20 School Building Committee/Trustees' Papers 1898-1963

CRB/21 School Trust Account Books 1885-1924

CRB/22 School Accounts Received Files 1884-1926

Day School

CRB/23 Day School Managers' Minute Book 1930-1953

CRB/24 Day School Cash Book 1900-1904

CRB/25 Day School Annual Returns of Attendance 1879-1880

CRB/26 Day School Attendance Registers 1866-1889

Sunday School

CRB/27 Sunday School Attendance Registers 1883

• <corpname>Bridge Methodist Church, Radcliffe, Greater Manchester</corpname>
• <corpname>Bridge Wesleyan Methodist Church, Rochcliffe, Greater Manchester</corpname>

The bulk of these records were deposited with Radcliffe library by Bridge Methodist Church before 1974, and later transferred to the Bury Archive Service in the 1980's. Nine additional items were deposited via Radcliffe Methodist Circuit in 2000. For records of Bury and Radcliffe Wesleyan Methodist Circuits, see CBW and CMW respectively; for records of the current Radcliffe Methodist Circuit, see CMR.

This Society has been in existence since at least 1804, and originally met in cottages next to Radcliffe Bridge. In 1815, a chapel was built in Stand Lane on the site currently occupied by the library: this was replaced by the current building in 1883. A Sunday school was built on Irwell Street in 1862, and was replaced by a new building in 1905, which also served as a day school until 1978, when it was destroyed by arson. The Bridge society also ran a mission at King Street between 1893 and 1914. Bridge was part of Bury Wesleyan Methodist Circuit until 1889, when it became part of the new Radcliffe Wesleyan Circuit, and after Methodist union, the Radcliffe Methodist Circuit.