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There are a few mentions of PSAs around on the web, e.g.:
http://www.newarkadvertiser.co.uk/history/1902sept.htm
http://www.verwoodconcertbrass.co.uk/newSite/history.html
and in Australia:
http://www.wesley.org.au/programs/progs/archives.html
Berkshire record Office has a PSA Society Attendance register (1894-7)
and some papers of the Broad Street Brotherhood Pleasant Sunday
Afternoons Society from 1892-1954 e.g. see
http://www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk/collections/summary/pdfs/dn33.pdf
Peter Higginbotham
www.workhouses.org.uk
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 08:12:14 -0000 Simon Fowler
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> The Pleasant Sunday Afternoon movement was run by the Methodist Church
> before (and probably after WW1) as a social event. There were also
> pleasant Saturday afternoons as well. So far as I know there is no
> history of the movement, but they are mentioned in Stephen Yeo,
> Religion and Voluntary Organisations in Crisis (London: Croom Helm,
> 1976)
>
> Simon Fowler
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 12:47 AM
> Subject: Re: Sunday afternoons
>
>
> Hi
>
> Am I being stupid or have I missed something? The only thing I can
> come up with is in "the good old days" families went for a Sunday
> afternoon stroll in their best clothes, maybe for a picnic or to visit
> a relation, always pictured in the mind as a sunny day and they had a
> "Pleasant Sunday afternoon" . Sixty years ago my "pleasant" Sunday
> afternoon was being made to go to Sunday school in my best clothes and
> not come home dirty as was the case with many of us. What my parents
> motive was I don't know!!
>
> Dennis D.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jane Howells
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 9:50 AM
> Subject: Sunday afternoons
>
>
> Could anyone tell me if there is a source of reference on 'Pleasant
> Sunday Afternoons'? Was this a formal organisation (if so when, where
> etc), or just a good idea for keeping those with little free time away
> from the temptations of idleness?
> Thanks
> Jane Howells
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