Storming Grafton

The Salvation Army joyfully marched into town in April 1884, with the first meetings held in the Protestant Hall in Queen Street. Meetings were often held in the open-air under a large fig tree at the corner of Queen and Pound streets. At one stage The Salvation Army was so large in Grafton that it had two separate ministries – The Grafton Salvation Army and its sister, the South Grafton Salvation Army, whose hall was opened in 1938 (pictured right.)