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The Newsletter of Wigan Heritage Service ISSUE No. 33 SPRING 2003 The Newsletter of Wigan Heritage Service 1 FREE From the Editor WELCOME to the latest edition of Past Forward, which has a wealth of articles from Ephemera from contributors new and not so new, including a number of letters written in response to Derek Cross’s enquiry about Winstanley Hall a couple of issues ago. I am sure that Derek never imagined that this would lead to such an the Archives enthusiastic response Time does not stand still, and there is sad A grand job by news as well as happy. Sadly, Tom Bennett, a Laura! very good friend of the History Shop, died at Christmas. We will miss him. Over the last year But on a happier note, we welcome two Archives volunteer Laura new members of staff. Claire Hawkins is our Binion from Tyldesley has new Community Outreach & Education Officer, been reboxing and and she has settled in well into her new duties, checking the contents of particularly in promoting the Parish Map within the rather large Peace the local community. Amanda Bradshaw has and Ellis (Wigan) just begun as a part-time Heritage Assistant; solicitors deposit. We are she will work three days a week, two in very grateful to Laura for Archives and one in the History Shop. Her the work she has done, presence in Leigh will enable the Archives especially now that she searchroom to be open three days a week. has finally completed More good news. Past Forward on tape this mammoth task. has proved very successful; cassettes were Peace and Ellis of Laura Binion with the re-boxed Peace & Ellis archive. distributed free as part of Wigan Library’s King Street, Wigan were Housebound Service, and feedback will be an important long collection, retaping New Age very positive. A number of cassettes were also established company of bundles within boxes as sold to other readers. My thanks to my friends solicitors, up to their she progressed. Technology in Making Waves in Leigh for all their help here closure in 1963. Their Importantly, she also A public access - it’s been a good bit of teamwork! material covers the kept a keen eye out for computer and printer is I had the privilege of being closely involved period 1364-1958, evidence of deterioration now in place at Archives, in the Mapping the Millennium celebrations in encompassing numerous of documents, usually by allowing internet access 2000, and so am particularly pleased that, estates in Ashton the visible presence of and the use of various thanks to the hard work of Yvonne, Claire, Billinge, Hindley, mould spores. By doing database CD ROMs. For Tony, Terry and many others, it has finally been Lowton, Manchester, this, she has identified those of you new to possible to display the entire Parish Map for 20 boxes which will need Newton, Pemberton, computors they are small the first time under one roof. The Wigan on the conservation attention. Standish, Westleigh, plastic boxes full of wires Map exhibition will open very soon after the Wigan and Wrightington. publication of this issue of Past Forward - see and electrical circuits There are records of Help is at which destroy your hours p20 for further details. I would strongly urge all the Holt Leigh, Kenyon those readers who can get to Wigan to visit of research when they of Swinley, Lathom, hand this unique and exciting exhibition - each map decide to. They also emit Markland, Rylands, Scott, is well worth seeing on its own, and the effect Just started as Heritage low level radiation which of all 28 together will be stunning. Diggle, Clayton, Baldwin, Assistant is Amanda some say gradually raises Also within the currency of this issue, we Lindsays, Earls of Bradshaw. Initially her men’s voices! will be celebrating 75 years of Wigan Athletic, Crawford, Kingsdown and post will be for two Seriously though, and hopefully, after many recent near misses, Wood concerns. The years, with Amanda they are an extremely holdings also include promotion at long last to Division 1 - as I write, working Wednesdays and powerful tool for colliery companies Latics are 12 points clear at the top, so every Thursdays at Archives research of all kinds, records from Richard reason for optimism. See p21 to find out how and one other day at the especially the amazing Evans of Haydock, Ackers you can help us with the exhibition. History Shop. By doing search facility called, of Whitley of Abram and so we will be able to I am delighted with the progress made by all things, Google. By Bickershaw, Wigan Coal open the Archives Service the Friends of the Heritage Service. As you typing in a word in will see from p21, tangible results are now and Iron Co, and the additionally on Google you are searching emerging from all the hard work put in by Philip Sankey Brook Coal Co. Wednesdays as well as and by some very dedicated volunteers. If you The Peace and Ellis the current Tuesdays and over three million web feel you could make a contribution, do not deposit numbers 453 Thursdays. sites worldwide and it gives you the results hesitate to have a chat with Philip. boxes in total, over 300 Amanda lives at Do keep sending me contributions for Past of which are the original Lowton and has a keen instantly. Forward - without them, the magazine would ones in which the knowledge of and Heritage Assistant not be the success it has become. collection arrived, in interest in music. Stephanie Tsang will now some cases going back to Interestingly, she spent be able to use this during COPY DEADLINE 1942. As such they are two years in the USA in quiet periods to carry on Please note that the copy deadline for of a non-archival nature, 1995 - 97, working as an her work of putting the issue no 34 of Past Forward is ie not made of acid free au pair. She is looking collections onto 6 June. materials. forward to working with databases, rather than Laura set to, the public and the battling for access to the All comments and correspondence should be carefully re-boxing the collections. office computer! addressed to: Editor, ‘Past Forward’, Wigan Heritage Service, Market Suite, The Galleries, Cover: A happy group of Wiganers, including some from Ince, Wigan WN1 1PX enjoying a holiday at Lands End in 1948. (See letter from Neil Cain on Email: [email protected] page 36). 2 I was very saddened The thought of to hear of the death taking up a wartime over Christmas of flight engineer in my Tom Bennett, a regu- MR. TOM BENNETT plane, as a gesture in lar at the History We all started New Year on a information with his long lost return for what he Shop. Initially, back very sad note with the news Australian cousin every step risked during the war, entered my in summer 2001 that Mr Tom Bennett, a of the way. This culminated a mind and he agreed when I first came regular researcher at the few years ago with him enthusiastically. across him while History Shop for many years, travelling out to stay with her After introducing working at the had died, aged 78, over the - as he put it, “the trip of a him to the flying History Shop, I lifetime”. Christmas period. instructors and engi- thought, “who’s this He also enjoyed local This did not so much come as neers and taking him nosy old man who a surprise, as his health had history, and his researches keeps butting in up in the control clearly been failing over the into the Santus story, old tower, we took the when I’m trying to preceding weeks, but newspaper advertisements, help people?” plane up, heading nevertheless we all felt a family connections and the towards his flat in I was soon to great loss. Tom Bennett was family tree also meant a lot to realise how knowl- central Wigan. A cir- someone whom we had seen him. He had spent all of his cle or two around edgeable and helpful three or four times a week at working life making the he was, especially to there, then off to the History Shop, and he had famous ‘Uncle Joe’s’, and Ashurst Beacon, those new to family become part of our lives. received fitting testament to history or with limit- Burscough, Southport His genealogy research, I his efforts by being featured and Euxton muni- ed time available for know, brought him great in their last publication, ‘A their research. His tions site (being pleasure and, as I only found Sweet Story’. demolished at the connections with out recently, had been We will all miss Tom, but time). ‘Uncle Joe’s Mint inspired by an appeal in the are glad to say we knew him. Once we had Balls’ also fascinated local press. An Australian ex- A strong contingent of reached 3000 feet I me - a right typical pat had asked for relatives staff, Friends of Wigan handed over the con- Wiganer I thought! still living to contact her Heritage Service and fellow trols to Tom. This A few months down under and Tom Bennett researchers from the History pleased him no end, later, by chance I responded. At her request he Shop attended the funeral and soon he was heard of his wartime sought out the History Shop and service at Wigan smoothly and safely service as a flight and undertook research into Crematorium on 9 January executing turns and engineer in their family, sharing his 2003.
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