Mexborough and Swinton Times January 18, 1929

United Methodist Jubilee

The Jubilee celebrations of the United Methodists have inspired an interesting account of the birth of Methodism locally.

The United Methodists were not, the first non-conformist body to become established at Wombwell but Wombwell must have been very insignificant when the first dozen members used to meet in an outhouse in a backyard in Bond-Area. The district was formerly known as “Cemetery Fields.”

The building is now used as a fried fish shop.

It still bears evidence of its early associations on the door with the now scarcely decipherable words “United Methodist Free Church.”

The United Methodist 1000 there meetings in the “Albert Hall” in Hawson Street