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... ® By order of the Board of Guardians, the inmates of the Union Workhouse had their usual treat of roast beef and plum pudding on Christmas Day. ...
... Petrol Station and the Bird In the’ Hand pub. Originally there was a row of cottages on the site which backed on to the Workhouse. The History Shop in Library, Street, doesn’t have a photograph of the cottages, so are there any of your readers who do ...
... 1000 W@Ers EgY NOVEMBER 8, 1901: The loneliness of the road leading from the workhouse into Woodhouse Lane is notorious and would, in the opinion of many, form a happy hunting ground for spirits and goblins from the far nether world. On Friday night at ...
... ago told by historian James Fairhurst after he’d thumbed through old newspapers. He says the road leading from Wigan Workhouse into Woodhouse Lane was a bit spooky. It was midnight. The yawning hour in graveyards. And in the blackness, a young chap ...
... Preachers IT is reassuring to know that our elderly need not suffer when they fall on hard times. The Wigan Workhouse (pictured above) is full to overflowing and I have seen the excellent facilities at first hand. I am pleased to report that all the old ...
... to the men. 1873 A shocking case of concealment of birth, and, it may be, of child murder, has taken place at the Wigan Workhouse. Six or seven months ago a young woman named Ann Lynch, who had been employed as a domestic servant at an inn in the town ...
... reported in the Wigan Observer a week ago ends one of the last links with pre-war Wigan. Mr Lowe’s great uncle was the last Workhouse Master in Wigan. And apart from Mr J Bradburn who, thankfully is still with us, Mr Lowe was the last surviving person who ...
... also shows vast areas of land which have been developed over the last 90 years. Clearlv —«earty marked on Frog Lane is The Workhouse. What memories that brings back. It stood, bleak-looking, in its own grounds opposite the Cleansing Department. In the early ...
... affection. It is lost on me. I never went. A Shevington man shows me his ancient documents shedding light on the old Wigan workhouse on Frog Lane. The list of rules and regulations would be amusing had they not been so terrible. ...
... the mortuary with six residents of Wigan Social corpses. Welfare Home on Frog Lane - formerly the It turned out that when Workhouse - were scared he went to measure a body, MU EI RO TS TOR a porter locked him in. Suddenly a glass panel in T el ) the locked ...
... there were no widow’s pensions - and no welfare for miners. There was, however, the Poor Law, and with it the threat of the workhouse in Frog Lane. Inspired by this, Anne started making pies in her little fireside oven and she and her children went out selling ...
... and the “good cheer” which we know it brings us, will make it as welcome in 1852 as it has ever been before. 1866 In the Workhouse again this year, entirely due to the generosity of the Board of Guardians, 429 inmates, 166 men, 142 women and 121 children ...