At this juncture the names were changed,the Parish Church becoming Preston Church and the United Free, Grange Church, and the ministers exchanged pulpits in July and August each year in order to have a holiday.

At three years we went to Sunday School meeting at 3pm in the hall, which was heated by large coal fires and lit by gas. Sometimes we were given small cards upon which was printed a text to be learned for the following Sunday. The Senior Sunday School sat Bible Examinations set by 121 George Street. Certificates (Pass, Merit or Honours depending on results) were presented in church along with a book or Bible.

On a few occasions we held a kinderspiel, children from the Parish Church taking part too. The highlights in our year were the Sunday School picnic and the Christmas treat. The picnic was held on the last Thursday in June, the school being closed for the day and the local shopkeepers on their monthly holiday.We all had either an enamel or tin mug usually tied round our necks with a length of tape. By 1930 the Sunday School met just after the morning service.Most of us went to church first and were members of the Young Worshippers League our cards being stamped at the church door by the office-bearer on duty. At the evening service after electricity was installed, the beadle always switched off the light except the two near the pulpitjust before the minister began the sermon. I never had the courage to enquire why this was done and can only assume it was to save electricity.thus reducing the subsequent bills. The walls were painted green and cream horizontal stripes. I do not think present day painters would approve!

Many gifts were donated to the church over the years,including in my time, the three stained glass windows on the north side in memory of Mr West water, Mr Meek who had been Session Clerk and for the hundredth anniversary. This was due to be installed in 1943 but was postponed until after the war.

We even had an electric organ a far cry from the first I remember. It was a memorial to those killed in the first world war and a boy, usually from the Sunday School sat behind a curtain operating the pump. The original harmonium stood beside it, but it ended its days in Sam Burns yard.

We had several organisation The Boys Brigade, Sunday School Parents Association, Wives Group, Bible Class at 5pm before the evening service and the Woman's Guild (previously called "The Work Party" I think the name was changed at the Union in 1929. The ladies sewed and knitted throughout the winter and held their Annual Sale of work in the spring, always on a Saturday afternoon. They also started a Drama Group, but because of the small number it only lasted two or three years. However, Preston Church started a similar group and I can think of two, not so young ladies from the Grange Guild who joined them and were given quite big parts. There was a mission at Cuthill run by the Home Board of the Church of Scotland.