Wigan Album

MINERS SOUP KITCHEN

2 Comments

MINERS SOUP KITCHEN
Photo: Frank Orrell

Views: 3,221
Item #: 32698

Families queueing for the soup kitchen outside the Bowling Green Hotel (possibly on Wigan Lane) during the 1893 Wigan miner's strike.

Back

Comment by: T. D. on 26th September 2020 at 16:33

The women and children turned out looking very clean and well wrapped up, waiting for their soup, during those very difficult days of 1893.

Comment by: T. D. on 27th September 2020 at 18:37

Great photo Frank.

Leave a comment?