My First ; Seventy Years Ago, Temple Street Methodist Church, Fenton, Became a Second Home to 82-Year-Old Greatgrandmother Mavis Fox, Nee Green, and Her Family - but the Former Chorister's Most Cherished Memory Is of Singing Handel's Messiah for the First Time

Sentinel, The; Stoke-on-Trent (UK) › September 27, 2009

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AS WELL as being one of the grandest places of worship in the Potteries, Temple Street Methodist Church, in Fenton, also boasted one of the finest choirs.

It was a choir the teenage Mavis Green, pictured, above as a young woman and below as she is now, was desperate to join.

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My First ; Seventy Years Ago, Temple Street Methodist Church, Fenton, Became a Second Home to 82-Year-Old Greatgrandmother Mavis Fox, Nee Green, and Her Family - but the Former Chorister's Most Cherished Memory Is of Singing Handel's Messiah for the First Time

"You had to be 16, but I joined at 15 because I couldn't wait," she says.

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