The Parish and People Movement
Christian Stewardship
Deaconess Aglen and the Board of Women’s Work
The Introduction of Further Anglo-Catholic Features and Practices
New Secondary Schools
Some Other Post-war Changes
Ecumenical Moves
The Wakefield Diocesan Committee for Religious Drama
Part III: Years of Challenge and Change, 1968–2013
The Bishops
Bishop Treacy’s Primary Visitation
The Change to Synodical Government
Local Government Reorganization
The Changing Position of Women: Readers, Deaconesses, Deacons and Priests, and other Appointments
New Forms of Ministry
Campaigns and Celebrations
Ecumenical Steps
Social Responsibility and Community Service
The Link Dioceses – Mara, Faisalabad and Skara
Catholic and Charismatic Renewal and New Forms of Worship
The Reordering of Churches
The Cathedral
The Mirfield Centre
Changes to the Parish Structure
Parsonage Houses
Redundant Churches
The Dioceses Commission
Appendix: The Diocesan Journals
List of Illustrations
Portrait of Bishop Stephen Platten by David Poole
Halifax Minster, Chris Lord Photography
Wakefield Cathedral about 1900
The procession on 25 April 1905
The Cathedral Sanctuary, Harriet Evans
The quarry at the House of the Resurrection
Bishop Seaton in 1937 with Basque refugees
St Luke’s, Grimethorpe
Sir William Cartwright, Chairman of the County Council, and his lunch guests, 25 May 1938
Bishop Hone
Bishop McGowan
Bishop Wilson
St Paul’s, Old Town, Barnsley
Work on the new front for the Chantry Chapel on Wakefield Bridge, 1939
Emergency wards which were provided for wartime casualties at Pinderfields Hospital and remained in use for a further sixty years
In the cathedral bell chamber, Liz Preston
St Francis’s Church, Fixby
St Andrew’s after its removal from Ferry Fryston to Ferrybridge
The reordered St Thomas’s, Heptonstall, Phil White
The interior of Holy Trinity, Wakefield
Noel T. Hopkins
Holy Trinity School, Illingworth, about 1976
The House of Mercy, Horbury
Bishop Ramsbotham
Bishop’s Lodge
Bishop Treacy
Bishop James
Bishop Robinson pledging support for Wakefield City of Sanctuary
