Mexborough and Swinton Times April 9, 1937

Church Worker Retires

St George’s church members will learn with regret that Mr Percy Chipp, 12 Morton Rd who has for many years been superintendent of the Sunday school has been compelled, through ill-health and through other pressures of his duty, to discontinue his work in that connection.

Mr Chipp has been a wonderful worker at St George’s with which church she had been connected ever since it was started.

He first became a member when the church was situated near the site of the New Hippodrome. Leaving there, the church moved to a building in West Street. St George’s Church, as we now know it, was built in 1900. Mr Chipp has been a member of the church choir for over 45 years and is still continuing that work. During his 40 years work with the Sunday School, Mr Chipp has been scholar, secretary and superintendent, having held the last position for about 15 years.

He has often trained the children of fathers and mothers who were in his class many years before. Four years ago he received his licence as an honorary lay reader, and he now finds that the extra duty of this position leaves him little time to carry on his work in the Sunday School.