Quakers in Crewe – Missing Poster

Quakers in Crewe and Nantwich

There have been Quakers, or, more formally, members of The Religious Society of Friends, in this district since the 1600s, and this year the period from Saturday 30th September to Sunday 8th October was designated Quaker Outreach Week. Accordingly, I got hold of one of the posters produced for the week and asked our vicar, Helen Chantry, if I could have permission to display it, somewhere around the west end of the church between the chemist's and the Buttermarket. After consultation, she gave me permission, and I set to work to mount the poster on hardboard and make it weatherproof. The standout word was PEACE, in turbulent times.

On Saturday morning I found Celia Bloor and her colleagues offering their apple pressing service at the Buttermarket, and between us it was decided that the top left of the bicycle rack was the best place, so I secured it there very firmly, with garden wire at the four corners. Over the next few days I checked, and it looked fine. Then on Thursday it had been removed and was nowhere to be found.

It is wonderful and exciting to think that someone was so committed to the idea of PEACE that they just had to take it away. Whoever you are, do not keep it to yourself though, spread it around – we could all do with more PEACE in every aspect of our lives. You might like to explore the other Quaker commitments, to EQUALITY, SIMPLICITY and SUSTAINABILITY, and, above all, TRUTH.

If you, or anyone else, is interested in the Quakers and their way of approaching life, you will be welcome if you come to Bradfield Road Methodist Church (out towards the hospital) at 3.00pm on the second and fourth Sunday of each month (and the fifth when there is one) for an hour of silent meditation and prayer with a group of Friends.

Howard W. Hilton

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