Holbrook & Halfway Mission Hall (Demolished), Mosborough, Eckington, Derbyshire, Church History

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Holbrook & Halfway Mission Hall (Demolished), Mosborough, Eckington

Holbrook & Halfway Mission Hall (Demolished),
Station Road,
Mosborough, Eckington, Derbyshire.

Cemeteries

We believe the Church did NOT have a graveyard.
Note: any church within an urban environment may have had its graveyard closed after the Burial Act of 1853. Any new church built after that is unlikely to have had a graveyard at all.

Church History

This Place of Worship was founded in 1898, and it has since been demolished, but we don't know when.

The entry in Kelly's Directory of 1932 for Mosborough (with Eckington) tells us that a Mission Hall (of St Mark's Church) was erected for Holbrook and Halfway in 1898. Its location may be seen on Old Maps from 1923-1965 on the north side of Station Road, a short distance east of its junction with Rotherham Road, and labelled as "Mission Room".
It appears that this junction has now been bypassed, and a roundabout built - yes, you've guessed it, to the east of the junction, so now the site of the Mission Hall lies beneath the roundabout! The old road which has been bypassed is now known as Rotherham Road North.
The area around the (old) crossroads appears to be what is known as Halfway, whereas Holbrook lies further east, where Holbrook Colliery used to be. Old Maps show that a public house, named "Halfway House" stood on the south east corner of the junction, and this has also been demolished. According to The Lost Pubs Project website it was closed in 1970, and demolished in 1994.
The name "Halfway" is recorded The Place-Names of Derbyshire (Kenneth Cameron, 1959) as early as 1794. One assumes it was so named in the days of the stage coach as it was "halfway" between two more prestigious places - possibly Rotherham and Chesterfield.

Denomination

Now or formerly Church of England.

If more than one congregation has worshipped here, or its congregation has united with others, in most cases this will record its original dedication.

Maps

This Church was located at OS grid reference SK4376481411. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

Holbrook & Halfway Mission Hall (Demolished), Mosborough, Eckington shown on a Google Map.
Places of Worship in Eckington shown on a Google Map.
Streetmap.co.uk (arrow on map shows the Place of Worship's location) (verified 2018-10-15)
Bing (Ordnance Survey option) (verified 2018-10-13)
Bing Maps ('Bird's Eye' View) (verified 2018-10-15)
Ordnance Survey "getamap" (NB some of the 'Change Map' options may require a subscription) (verified 2018-10-15)
OpenStreetMap (Maps © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA) (verified 2018-10-15)
A Vision of Britain Through Time - useful for Boundary Changes (verified 2018-10-15)
www.magic.gov.uk (Modern Maps with various overlays) (verified 2018-10-15)

Resources

I have found many websites of use whilst compiling the information for this database. Here are some which deserve mention as being of special interest for Mosborough, Eckington, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

“Archiving the Decline of the English Pub” - The Lost Pubs Project (null) (verified 2018-10-28)

The above links were selected and reviewed at the time I prepared the information, but please be aware their content may vary, or disappear entirely. These factors are outside my control.

Information last updated on 16 Jul 2016 at 12:58.

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