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From: Neil Wagstaff <>
Subject: [LAN] Re: COTTON MILLS ~ WAKES WEEK
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 20:59:43 -0600
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wrote:
>
> Hello Listers
>
> If you was a cotton mill worker and went on an outing in Wakes week in the
> latter part of the century - Where would you go?? What sort of outing would
> they have had and where?
>
In 1920 my mother was a mill worker and she used to go to Blackpool for
the week. A group would go together and buy a season ticket for the
Pier to go dancing each night and on the last day they pooled their
money and went to the amusement park for the day.

There were resorts all along the west coast that were the destination of
the wakes week crowds.
--
Neil Wagstaff - Provo, Utah, USA
Family Tree available at: http://www.xmission.com/~famties
Researching:
DEWSNUP, Lancs
DEARDEN, Spotland, Lancs
GRINDROD, Hallfold, Lancs
HEYWOOD, Lancs
NEEDHAM, Derby;
http://www.xmission.com/~famties/gen/needham/index.htm
RUDMAN, Hallfold, Lancs
TOPPING, Lancs
WAGSTAFF, Lancs, Derby

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