1891 - The Society to build the chapel was formed in 1889.  It was built in 1890. This 1891 photo came from the 1891 Manchester City Directory.
	1900 - Bill Perkins, the chairman of the building committee  built a house next door. He must have taken this picture. It was given to the chapel by a descendant's great-granddaughter.
	1923 - This image appears on a post card. The photographer is unknown.
	1941 - The chapel had been closed for about 10 years. It was renovated, painted white, and reopened in 1941. It has been white ever since.
	1942- A scan from an old newspaper photo of the chapel and the Perkins house together. This was shortly after Grenier Army AF Base took over the house by eminent domain. The chain link fence they put up between Bethany and the property is there, but it's barely visible. The fence was the actual parking-lot side of our garden in front. The fence ran from Newbury Road, along the driveway up to the the church, along the side of the garden, and to the boundary marker slightly down the sloping hill toward Pine Island Pond. We didn't have a lot of land, and all the photos you see of Bethany Chapel since 1941 were from Newbury Road.
	1957 - Architect's drawing of the new hall that was dedicated in the Spring of 1958.
	1972 - The tin ornament on top the bell tower cupola was removed and the cross was put up.
	1994 - A great shot of the church taken by Bruce Taggart, son of Thelma Taggart, who was a member of the church from 1941 until she died - ca 1994 - autumn.
	1999 - The only picture we have of the chapel and the Perkins house next door.
	1999 - The Grenier fence was removed - probably in late September. For the first time since before 1941 photos could be taken of the historic front of the church. Because we made some persistent noise about our endangered "historical status" due to the airport expansion, when they leveled the house, they also leveled the lot and allowed us to park there.
When the church was built in 1890, it was on Derry Hill Road, which became Londonderry Road as it traveled on across what is now Manchester-Boston Regional Airport (!!! Not used to that name change yet!!). With the growth of the next door airstrip into "Manchester Airport", the road configurations across the airport changed. After the 1936 Flood, Derry Hill Road from Brown Avenue up to Bethany Chapel became "Newbury Road". When Grenier came, a "Perimeter Road" was placed all around the base. If you remember, Perimeter Road used to be level with Newbury Road. They blocked Newbury Road off from Perimeter with concrete barriers. Didn't want traffic to "cut through" Newbury to Brown Avenue. They put a cul-de-sac turn around and the end of Newbury. Bethany Chapel used to park on that cul-de sac. With plans to move Perimeter Road towards Newbury, they were going to cut the cul-de-sac in half, ie. cut our parking in half. You can just imagine what that would have done to the life of the church - there wouldn't have been enough parking for any kind of large gathering. (By large, I mean up to a 100 people couldn't be at Bethany at one time. There wouldn't be enough parking.) We screeched, and they listened. We got the parking lot.
	2000 - Winter - I (Vera) was so excited to be able to take this shot from the parking lot. The front-view of the church, first taken when the church was built in 1890, was once again able to be taken.
	2003 - Before Easter they had closed off Newbury Road at Brown Avenue and opened it up at Perimeter Road. That was the best thing that happened to Bethany Chapel practically since it was built. NOW WE WERE VISIBLE! Now you didn't have to climb a steep hill. It was as if the whole entry was designed for us!
	2003 - Summer - when the church was soundproofed, the 1890 inscription "The Spirit of Love Will Guide You" was uncovered.
	2004 - November - Sam Allen was leading the guys in putting a facade on the end of the hall.
	The finished project.