Local Chronology, 1911.
1911. |
| Jan. 4. | - |
Decision of the Wigan Council to re-establish the Pleasure Fair on the Market Square. - Annual Treat to Old Folks by the Wigan and District Amateur Operatic Society. |
| Jan. 5. | - |
Mr. H. Eckersley appointed Clerk to the Golborne District Council. |
| Jan. 7. | - |
Abram Old Folk's Treat. |
| Jan. 10. | - |
Death of Mrs. Alice Johnson, one of the first Lady Members of the Wigan Board of Guardians. - Performance at the Royal Court Theatre by the Wigan and District Amateur Operatic Society in aid of the Pretoria Pit Disaster Fund. - Death of Mr. Thomas Belshaw, of Ince, in his 77th year. |
| Jan. 11. | - |
Hindley Old People's Treat. - Tenth Annual Match of the Haigh, Aspull, and Blackrod Ploughing Society. - Public Presentation to Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Walsh at Lamberhead Green. |
| Jan. 14. | - |
Annual Meeting of the Wigan and District Branch of the United Kingdom Commercial Travellers' Association. |
| Jan. 18. | - |
Licensed Victuallers' Ball. - Opening of Extensions to the Hindley and Abram Grammar School. |
| Jan. 21. | - |
Death of Mr. Charles Wise, Wigan, Agent for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, aged 41 years. |
| Jan. 23. | - |
Empire Ball in aid of the King Edward Memorial Fund. |
| Jan. 25. | - |
Higher Ince Old Folk's Treat. - Annual Meeting of the Wigan Temperance, Rescue, and Police Court Mission. - Lecture by Father Hugh Benson, M.A., at St. John's Hall. - Wigan Conservative Ball. - Third Annual Meeting of the Wigan Branch of the National League of the Blind. |
| Jan. 26. | - |
Annual Meeting of the Wigan Charity Organisation Society. |
| Jan. 28. | - |
Annual Festival of the Wigan Co-operative Society. |
| Feb. 1. | - |
Wigan Council reverse last month's decision regarding the Pleasure Fair. - Opening of the Independent Methodist Church, Kendal Street. |
| Feb. 2. | - |
Annual Dinner of the Wigan Branch of the Lancashire Farmers' Association. |
| Feb. 6. | - |
Death of the Rev. W. G. Proctor, Rector of Rufford, and a native of Wigan, aged 71 years. |
| Feb. 8. | - |
Wigan Annual Brewsters Sessions. - Presentation to Mr. O. Cooke, Choirmaster, St. James's Mission Church. |
| Feb. 9. | - |
Wigan County Annual Licensing Sessions. |
| Feb. 14. | - |
Annual Meeting of the Wigan Harmonic Male Voice Choir. |
| Feb. 15. | - |
Annual Meeting of the Wigan Branch of the Church Pastoral Aid Society. |
| Feb. 16. | - |
Death of Mr. George Kennion Dury, son of the late Rev. E. A. Dury, in his 40th year. |
| Feb. 21. | - |
Annual Meeting of the Wigan Amateur Operatic Society. - Death of Mr. Oswald John Walmesley, Barrister, aged 65 years. - Trial of John James Macauley, Collier, Abram, at the Manchester Assizes, on a charge of feloniously wounding his wife. |
| Feb. 22. | - |
Seventh Annual Dinner of the Wigan and District Working Men Butchers' Association. - Annual Meeting of the Wigan Subscription Bowling Club. |
| Feb. 23. | - |
Grant of £500 to the Mayor from the Rates of the Borough to meet the Expenses in connection with the Coronation Celebration. - Conference of Temperance Workers in Hope Congregational School, under the auspices of the United Kingdom Alliance. |
| Feb. 25. | - |
Presentation to Councillor W. Shaw, the Ince Labour Registration Agent. |
| Mar. 4. | - |
Death of Mr. Edward McKnight, Chief Librarian of Chorley, and formerly Assistant Librarian at Wigan, in his thirty fourth year. |
| Mar. 6. | - |
Adjourned Borough Licensing Sessions: four licences referred for Compensation. - Silver Anniversary of the Wigan Branch of the British Women's Temperance Association. |
| Mar. 7. | - |
Local Government Board Inquiry at the Workhouse in regard to the death of a retired collier named Wm. Miller. |
| Mar. 9. | - |
Adjourned County Licensing Sessions: three licences referred for Compensation. - Wigan Watch Committee resolved to grant one day of rest in seven for the force in April, 1913. |
| Mar. 10. | - |
Local Theatrical Action - Benson v. Worswick and others - at Manchester Assizes. |
| Mar. 11. | - |
Death of Mr. James Taberner, Pemberton, aged 77 years. - Presentation to Mr. Henry Twist, J.P., by the Wigan Labour Party and friends. |
| Mar. 13. | - |
Death of Mr. Joseph Unsworth, Golborne, in his 54th year. |
| Mar. 14. | - |
Annual Meeting of the Wigan Swimming and Water Polo Club. |
| Mar. 15. | - |
Bazaar at St. Patrick's Schools to raise funds for the erection of a memorial to the late Canon Sommer. - First Annual Dinner promoted by the Wigan and District Grocers' and Provision Dealers' Association. |
| Mar. 17. | - |
The Bazaar at St. Patrick's opened by Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P. - Death of Mrs. James Taylor, formerly at Whitley Hall, in her 83rd year. |
| Mar. 19. | - |
Irish Demonstration in the Royal Court Theatre. Speech by Mr. Swift MacNiel, M.P. |
| Mar. 20. | - |
Death of Mr. James Ormrod, corn dealer, aged 54 years. |
| Mar. 21. | - |
Cage Accident at Scot Lane Colliery, Blackrod. The Under Manager killed. |
| Mar. 22. | - |
Wigan Independent Labour Party Bazaar. |
| Mar. 23. | - |
Annual meeting of the Poor Children's Treat Committee. - Second Annual Meeting of the Wigan Liberal Association. |
| Mar. 25. | - |
Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P., opened the Independent Labour Party Bazaar. - Annual Meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Permanent Relief Society. |
| Mar. 27. | - |
Baron de Forest's slander suit in the King's Bench Division. |
| April 2. | - |
Census taken in Wigan and District. |
| April 4. | - |
Dead body of a newly-born child found in a hat box in a house in Swinley Lane. |
| April 5. | - |
Performance of "The Dream of Gerontius" by the Wigan and District Philharmonic Choir. |
| April 6. | - |
Death of Mr. James Winstanley, "Father" of Orrehl District Council, in his 75th year. |
| April 8. | - |
Annual Meeting of the Wigan and District Miners' Permanent Relief Society. - Meeting in Wigan of the North West District Federation of the United Kingdom Commercial Travellers' Association. |
| April 10. | - |
Death, at Southport, of Mr. James Mason, an old Wigan business man, in his 83rd year. |
| April 18. | - |
Death of Miss Mary Speakman, Bryn, aged 92 years - the oldest woman in the Ashton district. |
| April 20. | - |
Wigan Off-Licence Appeals at the Liverpool County Sessions. |
| April 22. | - |
Opening of Scholes Labour Club. |
| April 24. | - |
Poll on the question of whether the Wigan "Pleasure" Fair should be re-established on the Market Square. Result:- For, 4,714; against, 1,013. - Grandmaster Barnes, of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, visited the Duke of Wellington Lodge, Wigan. |
| April 26. | - |
Principal Meeting of the Wigan Licensing Compensation Authority: Four Licences referred for Compensation. - Dr. Yamei
Kin, a Chinese lady doctor, lectured in the Wesley Hall on the Opium traffic. |
| May 3. | - |
Wigan Council decide that the "Pleasure" Fair be re-established on the Market Square. |
| May 4. | - |
Commencement of Wigan Shopping Week. - Death of Mrs. Hutton, wife of the Rev. C. W. N. Hutton, Rector of Standish. |
| May 6. | - |
May Day Labour Demonstration in Wigan. |
| May 18. | - |
Housing Conference in the Old Council Chamber. |
| May 20. | - |
Announcement that the Rev. W. Harris, B.A., B.D., had accepted a call to the Ashton Congregational Church. |
| May 22. | - |
Strike at Douglas Bank Colliery. |
| May 24. | - |
Annual Meeting of the Wigan and District Grocers' and Provision Dealers' Association. |
| May 25. | - |
Advance in the General District Rate. |
| May 27. | - |
Special General Meeting of the Wigan and District Miners' Permanent Relief Society. |
| May 31. | - |
Annual Meeting of the Wigan Rugby Football Club. |
| June 1. | - |
Announcement of the tragic death of Councillor Hugh Ross, Deputy Mayor of the Borough. |
| June 4. | - |
Territorial Force leave for camp at Garstang. |
| June 10. | - |
Conference in the Old Council Chamber on the Insurance Bill. - Lord and Lady Balcarres give a garden party at Haigh Hall to the members of Conservative Committees of the Chorley Parliamentary Division. |
| June 11. | - |
Scarisbrick Street Baptist Sunday School Centenary Services. |
| June 14. | - |
Death of the Rev. John Wood, formerly Vicar of Highfield, aged 83 years. |
| June 15. | - |
Death of Mr. W. Mitchell, J.P., Golborne, in his 67th year. |
| June 19. | - |
Coronation Honours: Mr. W. H. Lever made a Baronet; Knighthood conferred on Mr. T. R. Ellis, head of Ihe firm of Peace and Ellis, Wigan. - Annual Meeting of the Infirmary Subscribers and Governors. |
| June 22. | - |
Coronation of King George V. and Queen Mary, celebrated in Wigan and District. |
| June 23. | - |
Opening of the Wigan Parish Church Garden. |
| June 24. | - |
Announcement that the Rev. W. Wentworth Scott had been appointed Vicar of Abram. |
| July 5. | - |
Death of Mr. Frederick Byers, aged 82 years. |
| July 6. | - |
Death of Mr. J. F. Dowswell, schoolmaster, aged 67 years. |
| July 7. | - |
Charge against a Wigan midwife at the Liverpool Assizes: sentence, seven years' penal servitude. |
| July 14. | - |
Death of Mr. J. H. Smith, J.P., Mining Engineer, aged 65 years. |
| July 17. | - |
Death, in India, of Adjutant John St. Clair Darlington, aged 27 years, youngest son of the late Henry Darlington, of Wigan. |
| July 22. | - |
Wigan and District Canine Society Show. |
| July 24. | - |
General Booth in Wigan. |
| July 26. | - |
Agricultural Show at Upholland. |
| July 27. | - |
Laying the Foundation Stone of Scot Lane Council School, Newtown. |
| July 29. | - |
Conservative Demonstration in Haigh Park. - Wigan Midwife's Case: Proceedings in the Court of Appeal. - Wigan Borough Quarter Sessions: Light criminal list. |
| Aug. 3. | - |
Deputation of Pit Brow Girls to the Home Secretary to protest against the proposed legislative interference with their work. |
| Aug. 5. | - |
Appointment of Junior Inspectors of Mines. |
| Aug. 6. | - |
Death of Mr. Charles Bailey, Organist of Standish Church, aged 68 years. |
| Aug. 7. | - |
Twenty-second Annual Show of the Winstanley and District Floral and Horticultural Society. |
| Aug. 8. | - |
Death of Mr. William Worthington, veterinary surgeon, aged 70 years. |
| Aug. 14. | - |
Death of Mr. T. R. Taylor, solicitor, aged 67 years. |
| Aug. 18. | - |
Railway Strike: Mass Meeting of workers in Wigan. - Death of Mr. E. J. Grimshaw, Mining Engineer, in his 78th year. |
| Aug. 19. | - |
Conservative Demonstrations in Haigh Park and Garswood Park. |
| Aug. 28. | - |
Death of Mr. T. E. House, engineer, aged 48 years. |
| Sept. 8. | - |
Death of the Rev. Robert Aikenhead, formerly Pastor of King Street Baptist Church, Wigan. - Annual Meeting of the Wigan and District Band of Hope Union. |
| Sept. 9. | - |
Death of Mrs. Bell, widow of the late Mr. Thomas Bell, in her 90th year. |
| Sept. 12. | - |
Mr. Henry Twist, J.P., adopted Prospective Labour Candidate for the Borough. |
| Sept. 14. | - |
Revision of the Borough Voting List. |
| Sept. 15. | - |
Death of Mr. James Melling, aged 63 years. |
| Sept. 18. | - |
Revision of the Ince Division Voting List. |
| Sept. 20. | - |
Recognition Service at Ashton Congregational Church. - Lecture on "Japan and the Japanese," by Dr. W. Murray Cairns, at the Technical College. |
| Sept. 23. | - |
The Closing of Pits at Haydock: Official statement published in the "Wigan Observer." - Wigan Infirmary Carnival. |
| Sept. 28. | - |
Water Polo National Championship Final: Wigan v. Hyde Seal. |
| Sept. 30. | - |
Opening of a New Reform Club in Wigan. |
| Oct. 1. | - |
Letter read in St. Catharine's Church from the Vicar, Rev. Travers Stoney, resigning his office owing to ill-health. |
| Oct. 9. | - |
Wigan Quarter Sessions: Only one prisoner for trial. |
| Oct. 12. | - |
Annual Meeting of the Wigan and District Merchants and Traders' Association. |
| Oct. 17. | - |
Curtailment of the Wigan Water Supply owing to the low state of the Reservoirs. |
| Oct. 18. | - |
Great Church Missionary Meeting in the Pavilion. - Meeting in the Co-operative Hall, Wigan, protesting against the proposed prohibition of women working on pit brows. |
| Oct. 19. | - |
Wigan Girls' High School Prize Distribution. |
| Oct. 20. | - |
Sale of Gidlow Lane Congregational Mission Church. |
| Oct. 21. | - |
Convention of Christian Endeavour Unions in Wigan. |
| Oct. 24. | - |
Settlement of the Strike at Douglas Bank Collieries. |
| Oct. 25. | - |
Official Opening of the New Wigan Reform Club: Visit of Sir John Brunner, Bart. |
| Oct. 26. | - |
Wigan Medical Officer, Dr. James Randal Hutchinson, appointed Medical Inspector under the Local Government Board. - Death, at Oxton, of Alderman Thomas Cook, a native of Wigan, in his 79th year. |
| Oct. 28. | - |
Australasian Football team defeated by Wigan, at Central Park. |
| Oct. 30. | - |
Mr. Harold Jevons, Town Clerk of Wigan, appointed Clerk to the Durham County Council. |
| Oct. 31. | - |
Death of Father John Melling, of Wrightington, in his 70th year. |
| Nov. 3. | - |
Death of Councillor Joseph Mitchell, Ashton. - Marriage of Mr. Cecil R. Darlington, at Bombay. |
| Nov. 5. | - |
Violent Gale: Cottage damaged in Wigan Lane. |
| Nov. 6. | - |
Annual Meeting of the Wigan and District Free Church Council. |
| Nov. 8. | - |
Empire Bazaar in Wigan organised by the Ince Division Conservative Party. |
| Nov. 9. | - |
Annual Meeting of the Wigan Town Council: Alderman Thomas Ashton elected Mayor. |
| Nov. 10. | - |
Death of Mrs. Taylor, wife of the Rev. Thomas Taylor, Vicar of St. Mary's, Ince. |
| Nov. 12. | - |
Temperance Sunday in Wigan. |
| Nov. 15. | - |
Annual Meeting of the Wigan Education Authority. |
| Nov. 19. | - |
Opening of a New High Altar in St. Patrick's Church, in memory of the late Canon Sommer. |
| Nov. 20. | - |
Philharmonic Society Concert in the Pavilion. |
| Nov. 22. | - |
Meeting in Wigan in connection with Women's Work and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. |
| Nov. 23. | - |
Death of Mr. Jonathan Longbotham, formerly manager of Norley Collieries, aged 61 years. |
| Nov. 24. | - |
Prize Day at the Wigan Grammar School. |
| Nov. 26. | - |
Death of Mr. Thomas Latham, colliery proprietor, aged 61 years. |
| Nov. 29. | - |
Presentation to Mr. Arthur Rushton, manager of the Maypole Colliery, Abram. - Centenary Bazaar at Hope Schools, Wigan. - Group Conference at the Young Men's Christian Association Rooms, Library Street. - Hindley and Abram Grammar School prize distribution. |
| Nov. 30. | - |
Lady Betty Balfour at Ince Public Hall. - Terrjtorial Prize Distribution in the Drill Hall. |
| Dec. 1. | - |
The Lord Advocate of Scotland (Mr. Ure, M.P.), and Mr. W. Redmond, M.P., address a Liberal Meeting in the Pavilion, Library Street. |
| Dec. 2. | - |
Opening of a New Labour Club at Ashton. |
| Dec. 4. | - |
Mr. W. H. Tyrer appointed Town Clerk of Wigan, and Dr. F. B. Wynne (Leigh) appointed Medical Officer for the Borough. |
| Dec. 5. | - |
Wigan Master Builders' Dinner: Insurance Bill Condemned. |
| Dec. 6. | - |
Prize Day at Upholland Grammar School. |
| Dec. 8. | - |
Appointment of Medical Officer at Billinge Workhouse. - Death of Major R. H. Lindsay, third son of the Earl of Crawford, aged 37 years. - Annual Meeting of the Hospital Sunday and Saturday Movement. |
| Dec. 9. | - |
Sunday School Union Eisteddfod at Wesley Hall. |
| Dec. 11. | - |
Death of Mr. Thomas Bolton, Assistant Overseer for Wigan, aged 54 years. - Performances of the Wigan Amateur Operatic Society at the Royal Court Theatre. |
| Dec. 13. | - |
Death of Mr. Ralph Birchall, retired licence holder, aged 84 years. - Lord Charles Beresford, M.P., addressed a Conservative Meeting in the Pavilion. - Second Members' Show of the Wigan and District Canine Society. |
| Dec. 14. | - |
Subsidence in Wigan Lane. |
| Dec. 18. | - |
Labour Demonstration in the Co-operative Hall. |
| Dec. 23. | - |
Mine flooded at Cross, Tetley's Colliery, Banmfurlong: one death. |
| Dec. 24. | - |
Death of Sir F. S. Powell, Bart., aged 84 years. |
