Category: St Martin’s

Parish Pilgrimage to the Corrymeela Community, Northern Ireland

A group of people from the four Kirkby churches met at John Lennon Airport on 7th September 2009 to travel to  Corrymeela Community in Northern Ireland for the Annual Parish Retreat.  For many this was their first flight so there was much excitement as the plane soared into the air over the Mersey and climbed […]

Two Cathedrals

The Group with No Name went on a trip to Liverpool at the start of October half term. We visited both cathedrals, Hope Street, the Albert Dock, Mersey Maritime Museum, the International Slavery Museum, ‘an awesome sweet shop’, and saw HMS Illustrious on her visit to Liverpool. It was a long and tiring day, but […]

Christmas in Kirkby

We have a busy programme of events planned for Christmas this year, with something for everyone around the four Church of England churches here in Kirkby: Sunday 1st November: All Saints day. Services of commemoration for the faithful departed in all four churches, 4pm at St. Mark’s, and 6pm in the other 3 churches. Friday […]

Link to older stories

Welcome to our new blog. This is where we will be posting news stories from the Parish of Kirkby, and the four Church of England churches here, St. Andrew’s, St. Chad’s, St. Mark’s and St. Martin’s. Older news stories can be found at their previous locations as follows: Parish News St. Andrew’s News St. Chad’s […]