Welcome to this new web site which St Bride's has created so that we can beam around the world news and events to be held over a two-year period and starting in the New Year. In 2007, it will be exactly 50 years since the church rose from the ashes after the devastation caused by World War II bombing, signalling a new chapter in Christian worship on the famous site where the church now stands in the heart of Fleet Street and the City of London.

Since 1970, I have been fortunate to have been an active member of the congregation, together with my wife Pamela. We were married on a mild and damp day in St Bride's on November 27 that year by the late, charismatic Dewi Morgan, who was known affectionately as the Bishop of Fleet Street! Our children Clare and Julian were both baptised by Dewi. I have been a member of the Guild of St Bride since 1971 and Pam, a professional librarian, can be seen often behind the book shop at the west end of the church.

As a former newspaper editor (whose London office was in The Street) and public relations consultant in the UK, Europe and world-wide, communicating has been at the forefront of my working life, and it is a privilege to have the opportunity to continue that as St Bride's enters yet another chapter in its wonderful history.

At fairly regular intervals, it is the intention to carry items of news and features, not only of 2007, but of the 50 years leading up to that date. We very much hope that anyone who reads this introductory story, for example, in the Fifty Years On (FYO) celebrations, will feel free to let me have items for inclusion. Here's the e-mail address: edward.bevin@virgin.net

We hope you will visit this site regularly!