There is also Lordshill Particular Baptist Chapel at Lordshill, above Snailbeach on the edge of Eastridge Coppice ,
My family members are buried there.
I went to school with two Purslow boys ,they lived up Crow’s Nest Dingle, up a steep path from the main road between Snailbeach village
and Stiperstones village, where our school was.
I tried to find burial records for oLordsHill ,but no success, then when the cave in at the top of Lordshill bank was cleared- it had been used as a tipping place for years, some remnants were found .
I needed to know where one member had been buried with her baby in 1914.
Meetings were held at one time at the smithy on the works’ site ,at the top of the rough road known as “ Clink ‘ leading from the main road to the works site at Snailbeach .
We often went there for the children’s meetings , although our Sunday School was at Snailbeach Methodist Chapel on the main road, where the husband the of the couple I lived with was a Lay Preacher,the wife who had lived at Eastridge as a child was a Baptist so we went to Lordshill often too.
My paternal great grandparents are buried there with some of their children .
My paternal grandmother went to Manchester for work in 1895, stayed, she married and is buried there ,dying in 1919.
I lived in Snailbeach from 1940 to 1945, having been taken by my parents to Dad’s family for safety, I was three, and left aged eight .
Those five and a half years were very influential, I love going back ,sadly now for funerals mostly!
It was a very happy time with good kind people ,I was truly lucky .
Viktoria.