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wiganer
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Re: wigan
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 29 January 08 09:56 GMT (UK) » |
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hi,
re Wigan Pier ,sorryto shatter the illusion but the bit ofthe Leeds /Liverpool that goes to the pier is just a branch cut between Wigan and Ligh .The pier was merely a a jeety wth lftinggear to load coal onto the barges.It was fantasised by George Formby SNR.
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duckweed
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Re: wigan
« Reply #16 on: Tuesday 29 January 08 12:22 GMT (UK) » |
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I agree with you that it was a jetty but not where coal was unloaded. There was a long jetty that took passenger boats. These boats were known as packets and went to Liverpool. The Packet service stopped in the late 1830s though weekend excursions carried on for a while after. Locals called it Wigan Pier long before George Fornby was born. By the time Fornby was born the jetty had no doubt disapeared as such though of course the area was still called Wigan Pier.
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Re: wigan
« Reply #17 on: Tuesday 29 January 08 13:03 GMT (UK) » |
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One of Wigan's oldest inhabitants died on Sunday morning in the person of Mr. Elijah Prescott, of 26, Cudworth street, Pottery, Wigan. He was in his 95th year.
Mr. Prescott, who was a member of a very well-known Wigan family, was born at a house called "The Croft" in Wallgate, which was then flanked by a mass of fields and his life connected up the days of travel by packet boat, for his father, the late Elijah Prescott, was for a long period in charge of one of the packet boats which used to sail on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal from "Wigan Pier." His mother, prior to her marriage, was employed as cook on the same boat as his father.
This is from Elijah Junior's obituary in 1936. There's a lot more in the orbituary about earlier wigan but this is the part that's relevant to his father.
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wrjones
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« Reply #18 on: Tuesday 29 January 08 13:14 GMT (UK) » |
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I too have Families that made their way to the Wigan area before the First World War.One of the Families is a Gregory Family that lived in Tyldesley before 1901.I would be very grateful to know,seeing as there is a picture of the War Memorial in Tyldesley,whether there are any Gregory names on it?
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William Russell Jones
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Jones,Griffiths.Stephens,Parry,Gabriel,Conway,Hughes,Evans,Roberts,Lea,Hanmer.Peake,Edwards.Newnes,Davies. All North Wales. Conway,Durber,Cartlidge,Lovatt,Bebington.Brindley,Sankey,Brunt.Dean.Clewes.Rhodes. All Stoke-on-Trent. Francis-Nantwich Cheshire. Dennell-Cheshire/Staffordshire. Census Information Is Crown Copyright,from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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wiganer
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Re: wigan
« Reply #19 on: Tuesday 29 January 08 13:33 GMT (UK) » |
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re Tyldesleymemorial,
this is a memorial to sir Thomas Tyldesley one of the commanders of the royalist forces killed at the battle of Wigan Lane n the English civil war
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wrjones
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Re: wigan
« Reply #20 on: Tuesday 29 January 08 13:40 GMT (UK) » |
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So thats how Tyldesley got its name?You learn something new everyday!
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William Russell Jones
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Jones,Griffiths.Stephens,Parry,Gabriel,Conway,Hughes,Evans,Roberts,Lea,Hanmer.Peake,Edwards.Newnes,Davies. All North Wales. Conway,Durber,Cartlidge,Lovatt,Bebington.Brindley,Sankey,Brunt.Dean.Clewes.Rhodes. All Stoke-on-Trent. Francis-Nantwich Cheshire. Dennell-Cheshire/Staffordshire. Census Information Is Crown Copyright,from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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