Brunswick Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Certificate: Book Prize awarded to Herbert Joseph Shepherd"

Brunswick Methodist Chapel, Brunswick Road, Buckley

1912

206.19 - 206.21 show three different certificates in eight book prizes awarded to Joseph Herbert Shepherd from 1905 to 1913 by the Brunswick Wesleyan Methodist Church Sunday School.

CERTIFICATE TEXT

Buckley Brunswick Wesleyan Sunday School

Awarded to Joseph H. Shepherd

52 marks

Year 1912

James Fox, sec.

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The book was: With Marlborough to Malplaquet, a Story of the Reign of Queen Anne by Herbert Strang and Richard Stead, pub 1910.

A Note at the beginning of the book:

" The object of this series is to encourage a taste for history among boys and girls up to thirteen or fourteen years of age. An attempt has been made to bring home to the young reader the principal events and movements of the periods covered by the several volumes.

If in these little stories historical fact treads somewhat closely upon the heels of fiction, the authors would plead the excellence of their intentions and the limitations of their space."

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In 1913, for regular attendance, he was presented with: A Dog with a Bad Name by Talbot Baines Reed. The first couple of paragraphs:

" Bolsover College was in a bad temper.

It often was; for as a rule it had little else to do; and what it had, was usually a less congenial occupation.

Bolsover, in fact, was a school which sadly needed two trifling reforms before it could be expected to do much good in the world. One was, that all its masters should be dismissed; the other was, that all its boys should be expelled. When these little changes had been effected there was every chance of turning the place into a creditable school; but not much chance otherwise."

Author: Brunswick Methodist Church

Tags

Year = 1912

Building = Religious

Document = Ephemera

Event = Religious

Extra = 1910s

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