Saint Barnabas Church,
Linslade [Z1432/1]
Sunday
7th January 1917: The Vicar of Linslade, Reverend W. S.
Mahony, has published the following message in this month’s parish magazine:
“For a long time I have been
wondering (like a great many other people) how I could do a bit more to help to
win the war. The work in this parish is peculiar: while on Sundays there is
more than enough work for two priests, on week-days we have a certain amount of
leisure, though not nearly as much as a great many people imagine. With the
consent of the Bishop of Buckingham, and with the agreement of the
Churchwardens and certain others whom I have consulted, I have resolved to try
to work a few days weekly at munitions, commencing on January 8th. Mr. Liddiard
has most readily undertaken the extra work which will devolve on him, and I
hope that the working of the parish will not suffer, although for part of every
week I shall not be able to go about among you. The demand for labour seems so
great that there seems little danger of my ‘doing anybody out of a job,’ while
any wages I may be able to earn I propose to send to the Red Cross Society,
whose receipts I hope to fix in the Church porch as a guarantee.”
Source:
Leighton Buzzard Observer, 9th January
1917
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