Snippet from Wallasey News charter supplement Baptised by immersion in the sea was known as "the big dip baptism". Just over sixty men and women were baptised by immersion in the sea near Harrison drive. The date was September 5 1923. The ceremony was in connection with a Big Tent Mission conducted at Seacombe. A news report at the time stated that the females were attired in full length garments of black serge, with rubber caps and males in jackets and trousers of the same material The baptismal ceremony was performed in a channel near the edge of the sea. The officiating brethren wore black macintosh overalls. The candidates were led to them one by one and gently immersed. Caryl