Attendance at church has been poor recently, with members like Michelle simply taking several Sundays off with no reasonable explanation.
Attendance was much more regular in the past, where simply "having a Sunday off" was not considered acceptable. The register below dates from 1979 and your attention is drawn to the extemporary attendance of the first child on this list, who rarely misses a Sunday throughout the year.
In later years, missing church became more common as can be seen from this extract from 1994 where a certain Henry Manual goes missing with no explanation from February to August. However standards are kept by Alicia Clapton who again puts in a virtually faultless attendance record.
