Great Strickland: View across fields to the Pennines

George Whitehead remembered:

Likewise our Friends of Strickland and Shapp, that Side of Westmoreland, kept their Meetings for some Years on the Common, both Winter and Summer, until they got a Meeting House built at Great Strickland. Our Friends in those Northern Countries were greatly enabled to bear the Cold, and all Sorts of Weather, when they had their Meetings on the Commons and mountaneous Places, for several Years at first. I remember when it has rained most of the Time, at some Meetings where we have been very much wetted, and yet I do not remember that ever I got any Hurt thereby, the Lord so preserved and defended us by his Power; Blessed be his Name who did enable me and many others to stand and to bear divers Kinds of Storms and Winds, &c.

George Whitehead The Christian Progress of that Ancient Servant and Minister of Jesus Christ,
George Whitehead (London: J. Sowle, 1725) 124–125.

Image © Meg Twycross 16 October 2011

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