End is nigh for 162-year-old church
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The Westmorland Gazette, 16th July 2003. "A weekend of farewell services will mark the passing of The Gaisgill Methodist Church, near Tebay, following a decision by the eight-strong congregation to finally shut the church. “We decided it wasn’t worth carrying on,” explained life-long member Marian Winder, 65. “The congregation has got less, they are all getting older and there were no younger people coming through to take over.” Today’s shrinking membership stands in contrast to the church’s busier days in the 1960s when the children of labourers billeted to build the nearby M6 motorway boosted its Sunday School..... -
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