BBC Archive | 1959: Faith Moves Mountains, but a CONGREGATION MOVES a CHURCH | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive @BBCArchive | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
What do you do when you can't afford to build a new church? Why, move a redundant one from 17 miles away of course!

BBC News was on hand in April 1959 for the opening of the new St Mark's church in Biggin Hill, moved brick by brick from the bombed out All Saints in Peckham over the course of three years by Rev Vivian Symons and his conscientious congregation.

Clip taken from BBC News, originally broadcast on BBC Television, Monday 27 April 1959.




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