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Re: Missing prayer desk, Carlisle
« Reply #27 on: Wednesday 01 May 19 19:07 BST (UK) »
... even if there is still someone on the PCC who knows who bought it (or acquired it) they would not be permitted to give you the details - unless, of course, it went to another Church.

True, but they might be able to contact the purchaser and ask if they were happy for the OP to be put in touch with them.

By the way - excellent find, JenB.

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Re: Missing prayer desk, Carlisle
« Reply #28 on: Wednesday 01 May 19 19:19 BST (UK) »
Assuming the purchaser still lived at the address they did when they purchased the desk :-)

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Re: Missing prayer desk, Carlisle
« Reply #29 on: Tuesday 23 July 19 15:04 BST (UK) »
Just a final postscript to this sad story.  I did track down the person responsible for the disposal of all the furnishings rendered redundant due to the modernisation of the church.  He has since moved on and now lives in Leicester.  He did nevertheless offer to check such records as he still had and get back to me.
I have never heard from him since.
The present incumbent has no records at all.
Search now abandoned.

Thank you all for your patient advice and support.

Clive

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Re: Missing prayer desk, Carlisle
« Reply #30 on: Tuesday 23 July 19 15:50 BST (UK) »
That's a shame Clive.  But 10 out of 10 for your efforts.


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Re: Missing prayer desk, Carlisle
« Reply #31 on: Tuesday 23 July 19 18:44 BST (UK) »
Thankyou for remembering us,it is sad and upsetting .
You sometimes see articles ,obviously from a Church at flea markets and antique fairs.
In the inner city areas in Manchester so many churches were demolished,new built all modernistic ones replaced about only five percent.
So much that would have been memorials just seen as rubbish.
The wholesale demolition of working class areas meant the congregations  left before demolition of the local churches,so no one realised until it was far too late to rescue anything and what would they have done with it in a small cramped Council flat on the umpteenth floor if a tower block.
The diocese is at fault ,they had all the info,dates etc and could have published that these things were up for grabs and whilst the relevant  documents were in existence.
No solution for your enquiries but you tried,really tried, and that counts.
Thankyou again.
Viktoria.

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Re: Missing prayer desk, Carlisle
« Reply #32 on: Tuesday 23 July 19 23:00 BST (UK) »
Why not try putting out an appeal for information of its whereabouts on BBC Radio Cumbria which I believe is broadcast from Carlisle.
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