Records of Leeds : Beeston Hill Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends. 1869-1967.
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Society of Friends
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The Society of Friends (or 'Quakers') was formed by George Fox (1624-1691), a shoemaker from Nottingham. In the 1640s Fox travelled throughout England delivering sermons in which he argued that individuals could have direct access to God without the need for churches, priests or other aspects of the established Church. Fox's followers became known as the 'Friends of Truth' and later the 'Society of Friends'. Fox developed rules for the management of meetings, which were printed as 'Friends Fello...
Leeds: Beeston Hill Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends.
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An Allowed Meeting, based at Fleece Lane in Leeds, opened in 1870, within Brighouse Monthly Meeting. This was attached to the new Adult School, opened in 1868 when the main Meeting moved to its new Meeting House at Carlton Hill. New premises were built in 1877 and the name of the school and its meeting for worship changed to Great Wilson Street. It became a Sub-Preparative Meeting in 1905, a full Preparative Meeting in 1920, and was part of the newly formed Leeds Monthly Meeting from 1924. The M...
