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WHILE researching my y family history I have discovered that my fa- 0 0 ther was born at 92 Gidlow Lane, Wigan. ..

... 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 ...

Atale to chill the heart ..

... 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 ...

1000 W@Ers EgY

... 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 ...

rl Move your Motor .1

... Move your Motor .1 K Reg FORD ESCORT 1.4 L 12 Months MoT, 6 Months Tax £1,650 ono 1524) 62069. Astra Estate 1.3 L Bargin 'workhouse' Roofrack. Tow bar. Very reliable. Taxed/MoT. £675 015242 21740 ...

Published: Wednesday 23 February 2000
Newspaper: Morecambe Visitor
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 36 | Page: 89 | Tags: none

Preachers

... 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 ...

}l,ea,(s) at the heart of Wigan 1853

... 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 ...

Name and address supplied R Seddon Greenwood Road Standish Charles the last link

... 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 ...

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... Lane, is president of the Fleetwood league. She has witnessed the growth of Rossall Hospital from a poorly funded converted workhouse for psychiatric and geriatric patients to a state-of-the art rehabilitation hospital, opened a few weeks ago. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 April 2002
Newspaper: Fleetwood Weekly News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 143 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Mapping our area’s mining landscape

... 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 ...