Handbook of Business Sessions & Public Services Primitive Methodist Church - Leeds District Synod: Pontefract 1915
This Synod, which took place between 29th April and 3rd May 1915, was the fourth to be held in Pontefract. The Handbook itself gives details of all the meetings taking place, agendas, names and photographs of the representatives and delegates ... plus the words to 28 hymns.
Priced twopence (or threepence by post) and printed by Turners of Pontefract almost every other page carried an advertisement for a local business although there are some from further afield - Bramley Organ Works and a heating engineer from Newcastle-upon-Tyne for example.
The copy of the Handbook used for this selection was taken from Pontefract Programmes 1915 – 1934 (miscellaneous items from the Holmes Collection): Copied & bound 1990 by John O.E. Holmes which is available at to view in the Local Studies Collection at Pontefract Library