Sunniside Primitive Methodist chapel

The picture shows Sunniside Primitive Methodist chapel in its final days. It has been demolished and there is housing on the site.

The 1940 Methodist Buildings Record notes that it was stone built, seated 250 people in pews rather than chairs and had no school room, simply one other room.

When was it built?   It appears on the 1895 Ordnance Survey map.

Bill Richardson has provided a photograph from a postcard of a gathering, perhaps the Sunday school,  outside the chapel.   The postcard is undated – but the date on the poster is Sunday June 21st 1914.  The group includes Bill’s mother, Ada Richardson nee Gilliland, her three sisters and their bother.

In the poster, Mr J Cape was her uncle.  There may well be many cousins too.  Bill’s mother was born in 1910 and died in 2000.