I was very surprised to read that a funeral and a wedding took place in the burnt out ruins.
It sounds as though the wedding would have been memorable "The fact of a wedding taking place, as it were, in the open air, produced considerable interest. The ceremony presented and uncommon site, for amidst falling snow and a snow covered chancel a bride and bridegroom were joined in matrimony".
Further to my earlier post re the fire at St Bartholomews in January 1895. Just over one week later a meeting had taken place to discuss the raising of funds to rebuild the church.
This was achieved the following year and the church re-opened in September 1896.
The fire in the early hours of 29 January 1895 caused a huge explosion and could be seen as far away as Stonegravels. The wintry weather slowed the progress of the firemen and the hydrants were frozen.
The Nunney family lived on Church St. and Charles Nunney was walking past early in the morning and raised the alarm at about 1am.
The full report of the fire was published in the Sheffield Evening Telegraph on 29 January 1895.
Further reading at WHITTINGTON CHURCH BURNT DOWN - C W LEE's Diary - Mosborough History Meeting Group
From Derbyshire Times 6 January 1939 (BNA) looks like great fun was had by all.
I found this article about the opening of the new Wesleyan chapel at Old Whittington in the Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald 2nd November 1895.
At first I was unsure which chapel it referred to as it mentions it is situated near to the Revolution House, but after a visit to Whittington I realised it is the chapel on Church St. which is now the Seventh Day Adventist church. (There was another chapel just past the Revolution House on the main road).
The newspaper report is interesting for the information on the building of the chapel, but it is also interesting from a genealogical point of view as it contains plenty of names of people who lived in Whittington in the mid 1890’s.
I don't normally post sad events that I find in the newspapers but this young lady had a very tragic end to her life due to mismatched love!
Today we remember all men and women who died in the many wars. Here are some of the men who gave their lives in WW1 who came from Old Whittington.
