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Coops Munition workers 1916
Photo: Margaret
Photo: Margaret
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Item #: 26143
Item #: 26143
A photo taken in 1916 of Coops Munition workers standing on the steps in the Mesnes Park.
This was pointed out to me by my nephew who came across it in the Fast Forward publication, by Wigan Museum and Archives. It was a terrific surprise to find my own mother in this photo - she would have been about 17 or 18 years of age and her name then was Annie Gorrie, at that time living in Harper Street which itself was bombed in 1918. She married Henry Brown in 1919 - they lived in Clarington Grove, She is standing extreme left on the second row up.
This was pointed out to me by my nephew who came across it in the Fast Forward publication, by Wigan Museum and Archives. It was a terrific surprise to find my own mother in this photo - she would have been about 17 or 18 years of age and her name then was Annie Gorrie, at that time living in Harper Street which itself was bombed in 1918. She married Henry Brown in 1919 - they lived in Clarington Grove, She is standing extreme left on the second row up.
Comment by: Ken Smith on 8th March 2015 at 10:15
My greatgrandfather Thomas Hodkinson and family lived at 21 Harper St he died in June 1915 but my grandmother and family lived there all her life at No 19 Harper St her married name was Fillingham.
Comment by: Albert. on 8th March 2015 at 10:20
Margaret. When the soldier's statue, at the rear of them, was in its full glory.
Comment by: Margaret on 8th March 2015 at 16:26
Apologies for the typo but you would have thought that I would have got the name of my own father correct, even though I was only 7 when he died aged 41 in 1939. It was John Henry - his father, my grandfather, who was Henry, born 1849. I believe Ken, that my grandparents, both of whom had died before I was born lived at 27 Hartley Street from about 1911 to 1920.
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