Local Chronology, 1887-88.
1887. |
| Dec. 20. | - |
Appointment, by the Wigan and District Miners, of Mr. S. Aspinwall as Agent. |
| Dec. 21. | - |
Conclusion of the Inquest on Mr. Wm. Baldwin; verdict of manslaughter returned against Moses Cuerden, the cab-driver. - Annual performance of "The Messiah" by the Trinity College Choir. |
| Dec. 24. | - |
Distribution of Hot-pots to the poor of Wigan. - Borsdane Mill, Hindley, destroyed by fire. |
| Dec. 31. | - |
Bazaar at the Methodist Free Church School, Pemberton. - Canary Show at Wigan. |
| 1888. |
| Jan. 4. | - |
Wigan Town Council Meeting: Discussions as to the Gas Investigation Committee, Market rights and tolls, and proposed increased borrowing powers. - Bolton Theatre destroyed by fire. - Upholland Day Schools Tea Party. |
| Jan. 5. | - |
Old Folks' Treats at Hindley and Golborne. |
| Jan. 6. | - |
Fire at Neary's Cabinet Works in Greenough-street. - Attempted Suicide by Mary Mattinson in the Wigan Police cells. - Meeting of the Manchester Geological Society in Wigan. - Appointment of Mr. T. Martland as Union Medical Officer for the Borough. |
| Jan. 7. | - |
Abram Old Folks' Treat. |
| Jan. 9. | - |
Conservative Demonstration at Ince. |
| Jan. 10. | - |
Wigan Borough Sessions; five prisoners. - Address by Lord Brabourne to the Primrose League. - Opening of the new Organ at St. Andrew's Church. |
| Jan. 11. | - |
Presentation to Mr. Jas. Ferguson, farm-bailiff, by the tenantry on the Garswood estate. |
| Jan. 13. | - |
The Wigan Corporation prosecuted by the Pemberton Local Board for supplying gas under the illuminating standard: Case dismissed. |
| Jan. 15. | - |
Messrs. I. Lawrence and Sons' Brewery at Ince destroyed by fire. |
| Jan. 16. | - |
Conservative Meeting at Hindley. |
| Jan. 17. | - |
Consert in the Drill Hall by Col. Mapleson's Opera Co. - Important discussion by the Hindley School Attendance Committee as to the exemption standard. |
| Jan. 18. | - |
Wigan Town Council: Special meeting to discuss the Market Tolls question and the Insanitary Dwelling scheme. - Laying the Foundation Stone of the Platt Lane Manufacturing Company's Weaving Shed at Hindley. |
| Jan. 19. | - |
Volunteer Officers' Ball. |
| Jan. 20. | - |
Sale of the first portion of the estate of the late Mr. Richard Pennington. |
| Jan. 23. | - |
Conservative Meeting at Pemberton. - St. Michael's Church Tea Party. |
| Jan. 24. | - |
Treat by Mrs. Eckersley to the Workhouse Inmates. - Lowton and district Ploughing Match. |
| Jan. 25. | - |
Farewell Tea Party to the Rev. J. W. Causer. |
| Jan. 26. | - |
Makerfield Ploughing Match. - Presentation of the jubilee Clock to Billinge Parish Church. |
| Jan. 28. | - |
Cutting the first sod of the new St. Helens and Wigan Railway. - Opening of a Conservative Club at Coppull. - Death of Richard Smith, of Woodhouse Lane, aged 80 years, the last of Wigan's handloom weavers. |
| Jan. 30. | - |
Temperance Festival in Wigan. |
| Jan. 31. | - |
Half-yearly Meeting of the Wigan Tramways Company. - Scarisbrick St. Chapel Tea Party. - St. Joseph's Tea Party. |
| Feb. 1. | - |
Town Council Meeting: Discussions as to Salaries and Railway Bills. - Presentation to Lord Crawford by Volunteer officers. |
| Feb. 2. | - |
Arrest of Samuel Hunter in connection with the Salford Gas Frauds. |
| Feb. 4. | - |
Experiments at Worsley Mesnes Collieries with a new hydraulic Coal-getter. |
| Feb. 7. | - |
St. James's Congregational Tea Party. |
| Feb. 9. | - |
All Saints' Tea Party. - Meeting of parishioners respecting the Standish Charities. |
| Feb. 13. | - |
St. Thomas's Tea Party. - Three men hurt by an accident at the King Pit, Pemberton. |
| Feb. 21. | - |
Old Folks' Treat at Ince. |
| Feb. 23. | - |
Restriction of Water Supply in Wigan. |
| Feb. 27. | - |
Death, at Southport, of Mr. John Henry Peck, J.P., of Wigan, in his 66th year. |
| Feb. 28. | - |
Trinity Presbyterian Church Tea Party. |
| Feb. 29. | - |
Moses Cuerden, cab driver, found guilty at Liverpool Assizes of the manslaughter of Mr. W. Baldwin on December 8th, and sentenced to one month's imprisonment. |
| Mar. 1. | - |
Polling for Burgess Auditors: Messrs. Healy and Byrom elected. - Conference in Wigan as to Temperance rescue work. |
| Mar. 3. | - |
Cutting the first sod of Messrs. Lever's new Soap Works at Bromborough Pool. |
| Mar. 5. | - |
Presentation to the Chairman of the Orrell Local Board. |
| Mar. 6. | - |
Local Government Inquiry at Hindley. - Important paper on "Mine Rents and Mineral Royalties," read by Mr. C. M. Percy, at the Meeting of the Manchester Geological Society. |
| Mar. 7. | - |
Local Government Inquiry at Wigan as to increased Borrowing Powers. - Wigan Public Hall Association Meeting. - Town Council Meeting: Deputation from Wigan Market Stallholders explain their grievances. |
| Mar. 10. | - |
The Woodman Rovers win the Rugby Football Junior Charity Cup. - Laying the Foundation Stone of a Roman Catholic Infant School at Golborne. |
| Mar. 13. | - |
Hearing of the action, Howat v. Hart, as to an alleged infringement of a Miners' Safety Lamp. - Death at Hartland, North Devon, of the Rev. A. Heal, for many years pastor of Orrell Congregational Chapel. |
| Mar. 15. | - |
Re-opening of the Victoria Restaurant, Wigan. |
| Mar. 16. | - |
Hindley Publicans heavily fined for allowing betting on their premises. |
| Mar. 17. | - |
Annual Meeting of the Lancashire Miners' Permanent Relief Society: A Superannuation Scheme submitted by Mr. Hall. |
| Mar. 20. | - |
Local Government Inquiry in Wigan as to the new Infectious Hospital. |
| Mar. 26. | - |
The Rev. Myer Berkovitz, Jewish Minister, killed in Wallgate, by a runaway horse. - A lad named Henry Taylor cut to pieces by a passing train near Pemberton Station. |
| Mar. 27. | - |
Death of Mr. John Prescott, J.P., D.L., of Dalton Grange, in his 54th year. |
| Mar. 28. | - |
Death of Mr. Alderman Edward Smith, Darlington-street, Wigan, aged 80 years. |
| April 4. | - |
Town Council Meeting. |
| April 5. | - |
Bazaar at All Saints' Schools, Hindley. |
| April 6. | - |
Shocking Shaft Accident at Douglas Bank Colliery, Wigan: five men killed. |
| April 9. | - |
Wigan Quarter Sessions: 3 prisoners. |
| April 10. | - |
Resolution passed by the Local Board to open the Hindley Free Library on Sundays. |
| April 11. | - |
Wigan Charity Organisation Society's Annual Meeting. |
| April 14. | - |
Laying the Foundation Stone of New Wesleyan Sunday Schools at Goose Green. - Laying the Corner Stones of a New Free Primitive Methodist Church in Crompton-street. |
| April 19. | - |
Public Meeting of Ashton Ratepayers on the Burial Ground Question. |
| April 20. | - |
Pemberton publicans heavily fined under the Betting Houses Act. |
| April 21. | - |
Conference of Local Authorities on the Local Government Bill; joint action agreed upon with the object of getting the Wigan Union constituted into a County Council. - Death at Clitheroe or Mr. Robert Dewhurst, aged 75 years, formerly senior partner in the firm of Dewhurst, Hoyle, and Smethurst, colliery proprietors. |
| April 26. | - |
Adjourned Joint Conference of Local Authorities; deputation appointed to wait upon the President of the Local Government Board. |
| April 30. | - |
Sergeant-Major Hughes, of the Lancashire Hussars, thrown from a horse at Newton and killed. |
| May 1. | - |
Address by Colonel Eyre, M.P., to the members of the Lindsay Habitation of the Primrose League. |
| May 2. | - |
Town Council Meeting: Deputation present memorial from the Ratepayers' Association against any increase in borough treasurer's salary. |
| May 4. | - |
Interview in London between the Wigan Deputation and the Secretary of the Local Government Board. - Visit of the Manchester Geological Society to Wigan: Paper read by Mr. O. Walmesley on Mine Rents and Royalties. - Adjourned Meeting at Ashton on the Burial Question. |
| May 5. | - |
Crowning the May Queen at Golborne. |
| May 9. | - |
Annual Meeting Wigan Infirmary. - Two men killed at Messrs. Blundell's collieries through the fall of a metal heap. - Ince Local Board decide to join Wigan for municipal purposes. |
| May 15. | - |
Death at Biggleswade of Mr. H. J. Whitley, aged 52, of the firm of Ackers, Whitley, and Co., Bickershaw Collieries. |
| May 16. | - |
Town Council Meeting: Scheme for Amalgamation with the Out-Townships submitted. - Public Meeting of Ratepayers object to any increase in the Borough Treasurer's salary. - Death at Denver, Colorado, America, of Dr. G. Garnett Tatham, formerly Union Medical Officer for Wigan. |
| May 17. | - |
Suicide of Benjamin Lowe, grocer, Ashton Cross. |
| May 18. | - |
Inspection of the Lancashire Hussars at Southport. |
| May 19. | - |
Presentation to the Rev. G. F. Wills on his leaving St. James's Parish for the Vicarage of Upholland. - Twenty acres of game cover on the Garswood Estate destroyed by fire. |
| May 21. | - |
Infirmary Gala in the Mesnes Park. |
| May 25. | - |
Further Conference as to the Extension of the Borough Boundaries. - Inspection of the Volunteers at St. Anne's. |
| May 30. | - |
Deputation to the Streets Committee from the Wigan Tramways Company as to the town purchasing the tram roads. |
| May 31. | - |
Formation of a Ratepayers' Association for Wigan. - Presentation from the Whelley Mission to the Rev. E. and Mrs. Heald on their leaving the district. |
| June 3. | - |
Census of the Borough taken by direction of the Corporation: Total, 52,791. |
| June 4. | - |
Death at Eccles of Mr. William Strickland, actuary of the Wigan Savings Bank. |
| June 5. | - |
Deputation from Out-Townships to Mr. Ritchie. |
| June 6. | - |
Town Council Meeting: The salary question referred back. - Local Government Inquiry at Billinge. |
| June 8. | - |
Mr. Ritchie announces in the House of Commons that Wigan should be included in the list of County-Boroughs under the Local Government Bill. |
| June 13. | - |
Death at Ince Hall of Mrs. Bryham, wife of Mr. Alderman Bryham, aged 79 years. |
| June 15. | - |
Special Town Council Meeting: Memorial adopted to Mr. Ritchie. |
| June 16. | - |
Visit of Inspection and formal opening of the Roburite Explosive Works at Gathurst. - Prize Day at the Wigan Grammar School. |
| June 18. | - |
Presentation to Inspector John Moan on his retirement from the Borough Police Force. |
| June 20. | - |
General Holiday. |
| June 24. | - |
Census taken of the Township of Ince: Result, 18,226. - Death of Mr. James Marsden, colliery manager, Whelley, aged 74 years. |
| June 26. | - |
Conference in London of the Central Association for Dealing with Distress caused by Mining Accidents. |
| June 28. | - |
Reception by the Mayor and Mayoress in the Drill Hall. |
| July 3. | - |
Inquest at Lancaster on the death of Terence Gough, a Wigan patient in the Lancaster Lunatic Asylum. |
| July 4. | - |
Town Council Meeting: Scheme for the Conversion of the Corporate Debt approved. |
| July 5. | - |
Severe Thunderstorm in Wigan. |
| July 6. | - |
Samuel Hunter sentenced at the Old Bailey, London, to five years' penal servitude. |
| July 7. | - |
Two men killed by a fall of roof at Pewfall Colliery, Haydock. |
| July 10. | - |
Wigan Borough Sessions: Three prisoners. |
| July 13. | - |
Public Meeting at Ince to promote the erection of a new cotton mill in the township. |
| July 15. | - |
Death of Mr. John Horridge, of Birkett Bank, aged 54 years. |
| July 18. | - |
Presentation of Certificates to Nurses at the Infirmary. |
| July 20. | - |
Death at Twyford Abbey, Ealing, of Lady Gerard, widow of the late Lord Gerard, of Bryn. - Strike of Cotton Operatives in Wigan. |
| July 21. | - |
Death at Oak Bank, Surbiton, of the Rev. W. Coombs, aged 74 years, for 17 years Incumbent of St. Catharine's, Wigan, and afterwards Vicar of Douglas, Parbold. |
| July 22. | - |
Starting of the Pennington Memorial Clock in St. Peter's Church, Hindley. |
| July 24. | - |
Funeral at Ashton of the Dowager Lady Gerard. |
| July 26. | - |
First Distribution of Prizes at the Wigan Church High School for Girls. |
| July 30. | - |
Hearing of the Libel Action against Mr. S. Woods, miners agent, brought by the underground managers at the Garswood Collieries: damages, £150. - Presentation to the Rev. F. D. Cremer on his leaving Upholland. |
| July 31. | - |
Two men killed at Laithwaite's Stone-delf, Upholland. |
| Aug. 1. | - |
Town Council Meeting. |
| Aug. 2. | - |
James Dawber sentenced to 14 years, and William Rigby to seven years' penal servitude, for an assault on Robert Unsworth, of Orrell, on the railway. |
| Aug. 12. | - |
Shocking 'Bus Accident at Parbold to a Bolton excursion party; one man killed and 20 injured. |
| Aug. 13. | - |
Death of Mr. Elijah Prescott, Schofield Lane, aged 78. - Savage attack on Mr. Hugh Davies, of Wigan, by a party of roughs at Douglas, Isle of Man. |
| Aug. 16. | - |
Laying of the Foundation Stone of the new Hope Chapel on the Mesnes. |
| Aug. 17. | - |
Death, at Kensington Park Gardens, London, of the widow of the late Mr. John Mayhew, of Wigan, aged 77. |
| Aug. 21. | - |
Half-yearly Meeting of the Wigan Tramways Company. |
| Aug. 22. | - |
Sudden death of Mr. George Henderson, of Orrell House, aged 71. |
| Aug. 29. | - |
Borough Licensing Sessions: the proposed new hotel on the Mesnes. |
| Sept. 1. | - |
Laying the Foundation Stone of a new Conservative Club at Golborne. |
| Sept. 5. | - |
Town Council. - First General Meeting of the Ratepayers' Association. |
| Sept. 6. | - |
County Licensing Sessions. - Opening of an interesting case as to the sale of Danish butter in Wigan. |
| Sept. 7. | - |
Local Government Inquiry at Billinge. |
| Sept. 12. | - |
First Annual Cattle Show and Fair at Hindley. |
| Sept. 13. | - |
Presentation to the Rev. Father Chapman on his leaving St. Joseph's. |
| Sept. 14. | - |
Revision of the Borough Voting Lists. |
| Sept. 15. | - |
Miners' Demonstration in Wigan. |
| Sept. 22. | - |
Visit of the Typographical Association to Wigan. |
| Sept. 24. | - |
Pemberton Local Board decide to join Wigan. |
| Sept. 26. | - |
Public Inquiry at Ince as to the proposed Park on Amberswood Common. |
| Sept. 27. | - |
At the Meeting of the Royal Manchester, Liverpool, and North Lancashire Society, it was resolved that the Society hold the 1889 Show in Wigan. - Fatal Chimney Accident at Messrs. Stone's Colliery, Garswood. - Adjourned Licensing Sessions. |
| Sept. 28. | - |
Scheme for amalgamation approved by Wigan, Ince, and Pemberton. |
| Oct. 3. | - |
Town Council: Discussion as to the Greater Wigan. |
| Oct. 5. | - |
Mr. Councillor Stuart declines to accept the mayoralty for a second year. |
| Oct. 7. | - |
Re-opening of St. George's Church after restoration. |
| Oct. 8. | - |
Opening of the new Conservative Club in Wigan: Address by the Solicitor-general in the Drill Hall. |
| Oct. 10. | - |
Death of Mr. Brice Grant Dean, painter, &c., Standishgate, aged 50. - The Ince Local Board resolve to take the opinion of the ratepayers as to amalgamation. |
| Oct. 11. | - |
Mr. W. Rogers receives a requisition from the Conservative party, asking him to be Mayor, and consents. |
| Oct. 14. | - |
Opening of the new Organ in Abram Parish Church. |
| Oct. 19. | - |
An advance of 10 per cent. in Miners' Wages granted by the West Lancashire Coal Association. |
| Oct. 20. | - |
Dedication of the new Window in Upholland Church. |
| Oct. 22. | - |
Consecration of the Maskell Peace Masonic Lodge. |
| Oct. 29. | - |
Town Council Meeting. |
| Oct. 30. | - |
Laying the Foundation Stone of the new Sanatorium. |
| Nov. 1. | - |
Municipal contests in Scholes and All Saints' Wards. |
| Nov. 3. | - |
Presentation to Miss Gidlow by the parishioners of Ince Church. |
| Nov. 4. | - |
Re-opening of Ince Church after renovation. - Death of Mr. A. H. Crossley, wholesale clothier, aged 47. |
| Nov. 5. | - |
Anti-Vaccination Meeting. |
| Nov. 7. | - |
Death of Mr. James Wood, of Monument House, aged 77 years. |
| Nov. 9. | - |
Annual Meeting of the Council: Election of Mr. W. Rogers, Mayor. |
| Nov. 10. | - |
Death of Mr. Councillor James Gerrard, of Stone House, Pemberton, aged 41. |
| Nov. 12. | - |
Verdict of Manslaughter returned against a boatman named Lyon for the death of a painter, at Lower Ince; Lyon afterwards acquitted at the Assizes. - St. Michael's Church Tea Party. - Summonses brought by the Corporation against property owners in Platt-lane, for repair of the streets, dismissed by the Borough Bench. |
| Nov. 13. | - |
Distribution of Prizes at Clayton-street School. |
| Nov. 14. | - |
St. Catharine's Tea Party. |
| Nov. 19. | - |
Wigan Borough Sessions; 7 prisoners. - Hearing of the appeal case, "Fairhurst v. the Wigan Corporation." |
| Nov. 21. | - |
Mr. N. ff. Eckersley returned unopposed for the vacancy in Queen-street Ward. |
| Nov. 26. | - |
Performance of "St. Paul" by the Trinity College Choir. |
| Nov. 27. | - |
Meeting in connection with the Hospital Sunday and Saturday Movement. - United Kingdom Alliance Meeting. |
| Nov. 28. | - |
Death of Mr. Solomon Horrocks, Douglas House, Standish, aged 68. |
| Nov. 29. | - |
Death, at Covent Garden Hotel, London, of Mr. Councillor Charles Oldfield, of Wigan and Southport, aged 62. |
| Nov. 30. | - |
Opening of the new Wigan County Police Court and Offices. |
| Dec. 1. | - |
Ellen Berry, a mill girl, drowned in the Douglas owing to the fog. |
| Dec. 4. | - |
Two men killed by a shaft accident at the Moss Pit, Bickerstaffe. |
| Dec. 5. | - |
Town Council Meeting: Interesting discussion as to the election of Burgess Auditors. |
| Dec. 6. | - |
Distribution of Prizes to the Volunteers. |
| Dec. 7. | - |
First Meeting in connection with the 1889 Agricultural Show in Wigan. - Meeting at Pemberton on the Amalgamation question. - Discussion in Parliament on the Employers' Liability Bill. - Presentation to Dr. and Mrs. Abbott on their leaving the town. |
| Dec. 8. | - |
Election, unopposed, of Mr. J. Woods for the second vacancy in Queen-street Ward. - Opening of the Steam Laundry at Upholland. |
| Dec. 10. | - |
Meeting to promote the candidate of Mr. W. S. Barrett as County Councillor for the Pemberton Division. |
| Dec. 11. | - |
Death, at Longford Hall, Stretford, in his 88th year, of Mr. John Rylands, head and founder of the firm of John Rylands and Sons, Limited. |
| Dec. 12. | - |
Annual Distribution of Prizes to the Students at the Wigan Mining and Mechanical School. |
| Dec. 17. | - |
Visit of the Maori Football team to Wigan. |
