| Description | As a result of the dissolution of the West Birmingham Halls Trust, meeting houses, institutes, mission halls and other property was transferred to Warwickshire Monthly Meeting Trustees in the early 1950s. Although members of the Impey family were buried in the graveyard, Longbridge Meeting House had not been used by Friends for many years, and had been rented out to the Christadelphians for the previous 30 years. Members of the Impey family decided in 1951 that due to the altered nature of the site from a rural setting to a noisy and dirty industrial setting as a result of the Austin factory, they would move their family's cremation urns and memorial stones to the churchyard of St Michael's, Cofton Hackett, Worcestershire. This then meant that Monthly Meeting Trustees (North Section) were free to sell the meeting house to the Christadelphians, which they did in 1952.
Includes printed letter from the Impey family explaining the reasons for the decision to move the cremation urns and memorial stones from Longbridge Meeting House burial ground in May 1951. |