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Description:My name is Caroline and I am a Priest at St George’s Church, previous to this I was a teacher and also worked as an administrator in an events management company. I have done a variety of jobs in my life so far. I know some history about the church and that it has been running since the mid 19th century. Before this church centre building that we are now standing in, it was a Victorian building and it was not on this site, but across the road from The Post 16 Centre. I also know that that opposite the Post 16 Centre building there is an archway which was part of the original church building; it leads into the park now. When I was younger, in Newtown there were a lot of Irish people and then the population changed in the 50s and 60s. This is when a lot of Caribbean people came to England and some moved into Newtown they were called the ‘Windrush Generation’. I also know that many years ago, Newtown was full of back to back houses, these are terraced houses a bit like ‘Coronation Street’ houses, but it wasn’t called Newtown then, it was called Hockley/Aston.
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The original St George’s Church was built by Thomas Rickman, around 1821. The Birmingham Diocese was ...
This illustration shows a view of the church on one side and St George’s school on the other side. ...
Since the church opened in the mid 1800s, there have been many rectors who have held sermons at the ...
J.A. Carr was the final rector at the original St George’s Church, his successor was G.H. Brown who ...
The church has a register of those individuals who lost their lives during the first and second world ...
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