At Your Service: Inside the inside-out church
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Northern Echo, 13th August 2005. Article based on Blackhall Local History Group material. "St Andrew's Church came to Blackhall on the back of a lorry 75 years ago, when it moved 15 miles down the road and was re-built inside out.....It had been built around 1885 as St Paul's, near Stockton railway station. When the population moved, the church became redundant. The canny folk of Blackhall bought it for £300, the matter of getting it the 15 miles from Stockton a rather greater problem. The solution, said the Hartlepool Mail at the time, was 'boldly conceived.' It was dismantled brick by brick, nearly 500 tons of material transported in three lorries a day, each carrying three tons. Work cost £4,300, the colliery bosses providing both the land and 'helped financially in a substantial manner.'....." -
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