The foundation stones at Branksome Road Primitive Methodist chapel were laid by Thomas Dowsett and others on September 21, 1907. Although inscribed Methodist Church on the porch it was an English Presbyterian Church between 1920 and 1925.
It closed in 2002 and has since been converted into flats.
Reference:
Brake, G. T (1994) Pleasant Road, Bournes Green, York Road and Branksome Road, The History of the Methodist Church in the Southend and Leigh Circuit, Essex: The Rochford Press, pp.20
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I lived in Vallance Close, Southend on Sea in the 1950s. I went to Girls Life Brigade and sometimes to church with my grandmother Emily May Bantick nee Mills, and my mother Emily Alice May Frost nee Bantick. My grandmother was a Primitive Methodist and I remember the church as being relatively unadorned compared to my fathers’ Church of England church at Prittlewell.
After finding some photos online today I think the church was Branksome Road Primitive Methodist chapel, Branksome Road SOUTHEND-ON-SEA SS2 4HG. It is close enough to Vallance Close for me to have walked there after changing from school uniform to GLB uniform in a late afternoon.
I’m hoping there may be some records of church members, particularly for my Grandmother. And also if the church hosted the Girls Life Brigade which I attended prior to leaving Southend in 1957?
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