he first Methodist meetings were held by brothers John and Charles Wesley in 1729. Methodism became one of the nonconformist denominations that many of our Christian ancestors joined as an alternative to the Church of England. Today there are about 164,000 Methodists in the UK. The Englesea Brook Chapel & Museum holds artefacts and documents relating to the history of the Primitive Methodist denomination. Here heritage officer Amy Wilkinson explains what a court summons served to a Primitive Methodist minister in 1905 tells us about the historical persecution
