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Photo: RON HUNT
Item #: 30358
Not 'bargees' around here, Ron - most were known as boatmen, or flatmen if they took their barges onto the Mersey.
Seeing that I originated from Wallgate,I would love to know whereabouts this was.
Is next door on the left what was the Bankes Arms pub?
Would the big building to the left be the Banks Arms
Maureen
The 1871 census shows it to be no. 85 Wallgate. The landlady a Maria Gee.
1825 Packet House. Thomas. Ball, Wallgate
Name Edward Gee
Age 48
Estimated Birth Year 1813
Relation Head
Spouse's Name Maria Gee
Gender Male
Where born St Helens, Lancashire, England
Civil parish Wigan
Ecclesiastical parish St Thomas
Town Wigan
County/Island Lancashire
Country England
Registration district Wigan
Sub-registration district Wigan
Address 83 Packet House Wallgate
Household Members
Name Age
Edward Gee 45
Maria Gee 50
Will Gee 24
Elizabeth Gee 21
Ann Gee 16
John Gee 13
George Gee 8
Thank you very much for the number Keith...I'll be able to find its location now.
could the Magee's pale ale be "Ma Gee's Pale Ale "as in Maria Gee
Winnie...Magees was the name of the Brewery, I think it later became Magee Marshalls. Maria Gee could have been
part of the Brewery family. Ray.
'Magee Marshall & Company was a brewery that operated from the Crown Brewery in Bolton, Lancashire, England. It was founded by David Magee, a brewer and spirit merchant, in 1853. He moved from the Good Samaritan Brewhouse to the Crown Hotel in the 1860s and built the Crown Brewery in Derby Street next to the hotel. After his death, he was succeeded by his sons, who acquired David Marshall's Grapes Brewery and the Horseshoe Brewery. The company was registered as Magee Marshall & Company Ltd. in 1888. The company acquired Henry Robinson's Brewery in Wigan and Halliwell's Alexandra Brewery. In 1959, it was acquired by Greenall Whitley & Company and closed in 1970.'
From Wikipedia.
Maureen , the bigger building to the left is Bankes Arms , which was 79-81 Wallgate . I think that some time after this , no 83 was demolished to make way for Farrimonds Row which was the side street next to Bankes Arms