The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

The Story of My Life - The original, handwritten version of the Memoirs of Arnold Goodliffe

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some of the leaders would be at the early meetings for prayer, at 7 on a Sunday morning at School at 9; tract distributing 12 to 1 o’clock, School at ½ past 1 to 2; tea, prayer after, service at 6.30. Prayer meeting 8 to 9 p.m. all this after keeping open shops etc on the Saturday until 12 o’clock. It was the season of greatest prosperity at old Stoney St., large congregations, us young men in the evening had to bring forms in the aisles, for strangers. Then every other Sunday, we went by two’s to Ruddington Carlton and other villages to help to start Sunday Schools, all of which are still existing and prosperous. Some young men, members at Stoney St.,and other chapels, started a morning Cricket Club, to play for exercise from one hour or two in the mornings at from 5 to 7 in the Meadows. On one occasion I was

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