http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/NewsFront.aspx?SectionID=13349 en-GB Copyright 2007, Johnston Press Plc jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk EPWO http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/GetFeed.aspx?sectionid=13349&format=rss Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:20:12 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/template/group/images/rss/EPWO_rss.gif http://www.epworthbells.co.uk 281 70 http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-by.6506830.jp I WAS not at all happy when Samuel (pictured) decided to take himself off to London to arrange for the printing of five hundred copies of his 'Dissertations on Job http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-by.6506830.jp Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:10:49 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-by.6494744.jp In 1731 Emilia managed to set up her own school in nearby Gainsborough, a pleasant little town for her to live in. Her brothers helped her out with the necessary finances but http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-by.6494744.jp Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:26:17 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-.6481730.jp I WAS delighted to hear about the Holy Fellowship which Charles had started at Oxford and which John later joined. It was a joy to read about their meetings for prayer and stu http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-.6481730.jp Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:52:56 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-.6469199.jp PATTY, Kezzy and Molly, all played a large part in helping to run the household at Wroot. http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-.6469199.jp Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:03:59 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-.6467441.jp WHEN Hetty Wesley told her father she wanted to marry a young lawyer from Lincoln, the Rector was enraged and in a blazing row he told his daughter in no uncertain terms that http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-.6467441.jp Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:48:13 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-by.6444285.jp SAMUEL was given the living at Wroot in 1724 and we moved to that inhospitable and desolate spot that same year. http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-by.6444285.jp Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:21:49 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-.6419356.jp Now aged 26, my eldest daughter, Emmy, had often taken my place, acting as a mother to us all, and I had the very highest admiration for her in the way she had so unselfishly http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-.6419356.jp Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:55:54 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-by.6397474.jp SAMUEL'S frequent visits to London as the Lincoln District Representative to the Convocation were a considerable drain on our limited funds, taking no less than a quarter http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-by.6397474.jp Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:49:28 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-.6379767.jp A year after that terrible fire we moved into our new Rectory. It looked very handsome from the outside, but inside, as ever, we were very short of furniture. http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-.6379767.jp Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:08:33 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-.6366245.jp It took us a long time to get over the shock of losing our home in the fire but my husband wasted no time at all in persuading the Church Commisioners to get on with the repla http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-.6366245.jp Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:50:31 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-by.6351560.jp The 1702 fire almost made us homeless but the awful conflagration of 1709 completely destroyed all we had. http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-by.6351560.jp Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:17:36 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-.6336559.jp Whilst Samuel was shut away in Lincoln gaol I thought I could help him with some financial assistance so I sent him my rings to help him buy nourishment. I should have known b http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-.6336559.jp Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:29:53 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-by.6321409.jp (Samuel Wesley's debts land him in Lincoln Castle Gaol) It was the local elections in 1705 and I feared that my husband's harsh treatment of some of his flock http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-by.6321409.jp Wed, 26 May 2010 12:40:22 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-.6305149.jp MY HUSBAND and I rarely saw eye to eye and in some ways we lived separate lives. http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-.6305149.jp Wed, 19 May 2010 12:02:37 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-.6288925.jp NOW in her later years, and living at the Methodist HQ in London, Susanna Wesley reflects on her time in the Epworth Parish) Sammy was making a young man of whom we felt http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-.6288925.jp Wed, 12 May 2010 10:02:25 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-.6274406.jp OUR new residence was a far grander place than our mean quarters at South Ormsby. http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-.6274406.jp Wed, 05 May 2010 12:38:08 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-.6274409.jp IN THIS new series Belton writer, Colin Ella, opens up the character of Susanna Wesley and gives us new insights into the thinking of this remarkable lady) http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Susanna-Wesley39s-Epworth-Memoirs-.6274409.jp Wed, 05 May 2010 12:41:18 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/An-Alternative-Axholme-History-.6226087.jp EPWORTH Market Place was the usual Saturday morning hive of activity, but the predominant scent, as always, was the reek of horse manure freshly dropped by a variety of visit http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/An-Alternative-Axholme-History-.6226087.jp Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:55:58 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/An-Alternative-Axholme-History-Part.6209602.jp YOU would have to go a long way to have found a more chaotic and disorganised lot than the landowners around Belton and Epworth. http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/An-Alternative-Axholme-History-Part.6209602.jp Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/An-Alternative-Axholme-History-.6166880.jp The folk of Epworth suffered shell-shock when their worthy man of the cloth, the Rev Samuel Wesley, arrived on the scene. http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/An-Alternative-Axholme-History-.6166880.jp Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:16:19 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/An-alternative-Axholme-History.6148493.jp THE Manor Court at Epworth had a good run and did a useful job but it was eventually replaced by the Vestry Council. http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/An-alternative-Axholme-History.6148493.jp Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:19:53 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/An-Alternative-Axholme-History-.6059965.jp When the Saxons took over Britain they thought, 'We'll dub this place 'Angleland' which was cut down to England. http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/An-Alternative-Axholme-History-.6059965.jp Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:28:44 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/An-Alternative-Axholme-History-by.6045683.jp COLIN Ella's weekly articles have featured in the Epworth Bells and Crowle Advertiser continuously for 21 years. Here he begins a light hearted ramble through the Isle&#39 http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/An-Alternative-Axholme-History-by.6045683.jp Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:21:23 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Matters-of-Grave-Concern-.5998796.jp An epitaph at Sunderland in County Durham is in memory of Joseph Blackett who had been a shoemaker and a poet. Like thousands of epitaphs it is in the form of a poem. http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Matters-of-Grave-Concern-.5998796.jp Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:08:59 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Matters-of-Grave-Concern-.5978277.jp IT SEEMS that this lonely bachelor noted on the following memorial felt really sorry for himself. His self-pitying lament goes: http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Matters-of-Grave-Concern-.5978277.jp Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:27:03 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Matters-of-Grave-Concern-.5960157.jp I suppose you could say the two people mentioned in the following epitaphs were either long suffering or had a lot of stamina. The first concerns Nicholas Toke who lies buried http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Matters-of-Grave-Concern-.5960157.jp Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:22:26 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Matters-of-Grave-Concern-.5918136.jp Our graveyards are a rich heritage and a genuine reflection of old England over many generations. In this series we are discovering that our 11,000 or so cemeteries are a trea http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Matters-of-Grave-Concern-.5918136.jp Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:24:08 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Matters-of-Grave-Concern-.5897186.jp It is not just the wording of the inscriptions on many of the old tombs which is so unusual but there is also a great deal of weird and wonderful architecture. Abel Stephen&#3 http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Matters-of-Grave-Concern-.5897186.jp Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:44:51 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Matters-of-Grave-Concern-.5885275.jp It cannot be said that the graveyards of the Isle of Axholme offer much in the way of what this series is about - mainly amusing epitaphs. The cemeteries of Axholme have the http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Matters-of-Grave-Concern-.5885275.jp Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:27:40 GMT http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Matters-of-Grave-Concern-part.5857981.jp EPITAPHS frequently give grim warnings of one sort or another and one such in Devizes in Wiltshire is recorded, not on a grave but on the Market Cross. It has these sobering w http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/local-history/Matters-of-Grave-Concern-part.5857981.jp Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:24:08 GMT