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Collingwood Street, Standish
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Photo: Rev David Long
Item #: 29806
I was surprised to find two unusual plates on two rows of four terraced houses on Collingwood Street. This was the first, on numbers 14-20, aka 'Pride of Standish Terrace', with 'Loyal Orange Institution' carved above, and the date of 1893.
Anyone know anything more about this enterprising Orange Lodge's housing programme?
I've been unable to find any information on this housing scheme online , but did find a copy of a monograph about the Orange Lodges during World War I, which listed the following men on active service as being members of the 'Pride of Standish' lodge . . .
Alfred Arstall, Coldstream Guards
James Brown, Lancashire Fusiliers
Richard Mason, Lancashire Fusiliers
John Barlow, 14th Manchesters
Charles Fairhurst, 14th Manchesters
Walter Syner, 14th Manchesters
John Bentham, King’s Liverpool Regiment
John Winstanley, Loyal North Lancashire
Richard Winstanley, Royal Field Artillery
Robert Leigh, Royal Field Artillery
Yes, I'd also found that, Mick. The only casualty among them was the first, Alfred Arstall, but, although I already had the names of the rest among my listing for men of Standish who went to war, the list gave the names of Regiments, some of which I hadn't got.
I went to the Museum of Wigan Life yesterday to see what references they had there to the LOL, but found very little - apart from items in the press which were largely anti-RC or anti-CofE Ritualism polemics in the correspondence columns. Some quite nasty stuff, read today....
It's surprising that the Lodge has dropped from sight in Wigan without someone writing up its history. Unless someone knows better....
The only reference I've found anywhere is in Gordon Crompton's 'Standish & Its People 1900-1926', in which he refers to the 'Brewery' and 'Orange' houses in Collingwood Street, without further explanation or comment. I did discover in the Museum that the street was named after the Chairman of the Local Board, W Collingwood, who died in May 1892 - a year before this block was built.
the town hall still holds the seal for the lodge they might have a slight bit of history with it. or ring the museum of orange heritage on 02890 701122
My mum was born at 33 Collingwood Street., Standish in 1912. She always
Told me that the house was one of the Orange Houses and that my grandad was an Orangeman and that's how they came to get the tenancy of 33. I never really understood the significance of this but always wondered whether there was a link with William of Orange and to the Orange Lodges in Northern Ireland. The only connection with Ireland that I have is that my dad was of Irish Catholic descent, and my grandad had no Irish connections. I do know from my mum that there were often clashes between the Protestants and the Catholic’s in Standish, particularly on St. Patrick’s day and n the St. Wilfrid’s Walking day, I am also
Interested in how Collingwood Street got it’s name and from whom it was derived if it was from a person. Sadly there was a notorious slave trader from Liverpool with that name and it makes me shudder to consider that to
be the link.