Wayne Clarke is a Baptist minister and broadcaster, who was a successor to Hugh Stowell Brown and worked for the BBC in Liverpool.
He rediscovered Hugh’s statue in 2007 and it stands again in Liverpool today.
Wayne Clarke is a Baptist minister and broadcaster, who was a successor to Hugh Stowell Brown and worked for the BBC in Liverpool.
He rediscovered Hugh’s statue in 2007 and it stands again in Liverpool today.
When Hugh Stowell Brown, aged just twenty-three, arrived in Liverpool to preach at Myrtle Street Baptist, no one could guess his impact on the church and the city. He had barely preached a sermon before and had been a Baptist only a matter of months, but for the next forty years...
His Early Days
The weather was typically stormy in the tempestuous channel between the Isle of Man and Great Britain on the night of 19th November 1830. The cruel winds drove the steam packet St George on to St Mary’s Rock in Douglas Bay. The wrecking of the steamship was one of Hugh Stowell Brown’s earliest memories...
'And people came, in their working clothes. They came in their thousands. You had to get there an hour early to get a seat'
Personal quest of award-winning radio producer
Resurrects life of a celebrated yet forgotten Baptist preacher
Lessons in reaching out to working class