Whaddon Way Church

Rebuilding

Whaddon Way Church has decided that the temporary building that served us well for over 30 years has reached the end of its useful life.  We need a bigger, more permanent, building to  better serve our community. 

This gallery shows the progress.  To reduce the number of photos on each page it has been split into 6 web pages.

I am indebted to Jonathan Schemoul of  JonDesign's Smooth Gallery for the code used to produce the image gallery.

Before it happened

July 2008; Whaddon Way Church building in Beaverbrook Court, Bletchley, when rebuilding was just a plan.

Extra storage arrives

A Portakabin is swung into place in the Manse garden.

Portakabin in situ

Our temporary home is smaller, thus spare chairs and equipment is stored here.

Interiors 1

A farewell message from the Junior Church.

The worship area

The worship area, empty save for a branch of a pear tree that served as a Prayer Tree in a recent service.

The large classroom

The main classroom used for teachining, servive meals and making mince-pies by local pupils aattending Christmas Cracked.

The small classroom

No more pink walls!

The contraflow room

Also used as a quiet room by the healing ministry team on Monday nights.

The small classroom again.

The view looking towards the contraflow room.

Asbestos gone

The asbestos panelling that caused us many problems was removed under special conditions.

Empty cupboards

The hours that had been spent tidying up these cupboards where Juniort Church and the midweek clubs kept all their materials.

Worship Area - Empty

All the roof panelling is gone. The timber seems to be in good condition.

The back of the church

Wide open spaces now the walls are down.

Goodbye

A final comment from Contraflow.

12th July 2009

The fences are up and the fuel services are disconnected.

From the car park

The same time as the previous photo. The building looks quite good.

30th July 2009

Presumeably ensuring that the manse is still connected to water and telecoms.

1st July 2009

9:29am Demolition starts with the brick wall end of the worship area.

9:31am

Amazing what can be done in 2 minutes with a Komatsu excavator!

3 minutes later

Are you sure this is the right building? They have left some loudspeakers behind.

10:25am

Now the roof is removed.

11:13am

That's the worship area gone.

3:12pm

Everything flattened. Now the boring part - the tidy-up.

Was this a church?

This is when we fully realise that a church is people, not property.

Junior church

Even at their most energetic they didn't cause this much mess.

5th July 2009

3:16pm - Pretty much tidied up.

6th July: Noon

Panoramic view: Almost finished.

6th July 2009: Noon

Another panorama.