The Coal Yard & other stories

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The Churches
The Ellis family attended the Methodist Church in the Valley, influenced no doubt by our Grandmother Martha’s father, Daniel Tucker, who was a lay Preacher for the Blue spur Methodist Church. This was near Lawrence where Martha had been brought up.
In Taieri Road the Methodists (1893) had purchased the old brick Temperance hall and converted it into their own church. An older wooden structure that had been earlier used by the church in Walton Street was shifted to the Taieri Road site and positioned at the rear of the main church which had the spire added about 1918. The wooden hall at the rear was used for gatherings as well as the Sunday school and Bible Classes.
Winnie Ellis was a dedicated worker for the Methodists and organized the collection of postage stamps that were sold to raise funds for the Missions. She attended all of the Leader’s meetings and helped with the raising of funds for the lighting and heating of the buildings. Several other groups in the organization saw her valuable input. The Roslyn Methodist Church was amalgamated in 1968 with the Kaikorai Presbyterians in Nairn Street and had at that time just celebrated their 90th anniversary.
Roslyn Methodist Church.
Not far away and opposite the north end of Kaikorai valley Road was the Gospel Hall. Said that it became one of the largest of the Brethren groups in Dunedin, they were the origin of broadcast services by radio. At that time the many of the Brethren groups opposed radios in the home. Having started during 1899 the building was sold in 1964 when the group moved to the Brockville area. The building for many years has been used by the Roslyn Mower Centre.

The Gospel Hall at one time about 1889 set up a building just south of Mellor Street and almost opposite Ellis’s coal yard. However in 1908 the congregation moved up to the Roslyn township and took the building with them.
 

Beside the car in this photo from the Settler’s Museum is the roof of the Kaikorai Gospel Hall. Behind that is the Presbyterian Church and hall.

The building used as the Kaikorai Kindergarten is just above centre.

The Baptist church was re-erected below the fence in the right hand corner.

(Photo from the Hocken Library)


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