Wigan Album
Crooke
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Photo: JOHN STAVELEY
Item #: 33494
My grandfather Thomas Latham Brown’s workshop is at the end of the Mineral Line, adjacent to where the tippler was located. After serving a journeyman apprenticeship with Alf Gill, he served in the Royal Navy during WW1 and returned to run a successful building and property repairs business. His main customer was Mr. James Lyon, Headmaster of Shevington schools for 43 years and the last owner of Crooke Hall. More information can be found WW item 22918 and in The History of Crooke Village http://www.crookevillage.co.uk:about
John their used to be a Mr Stavely who lived on Shevington lane, he was the school truant officer.
Hi Mick
I recall he was a very stout man to say the least, he checked up on me when I had Scarlet fever but didn’t make me feel we were related. I have since found out that he was my grandfather’s cousin and I believe the family moved to the Netherlands.
I have dim memories of visiting my great uncle, Richard Houghton at his terraced house in Crooke one winter’s evening in the 1950s. He was a train driver by day, and made wedding cakes with elaborate icing decoration in his spare time. Does anyone have more details?
I remember him, although I was very young. I believe he actually made my mums wedding cake and her cousins cake. I remember cousin Toms cake had little icing umbrellas hanging from the tiers.
My great grandmother was the caretaker at shevington school at think it was on broadeth lane her name was minnie beech her son's were wrestlers in st helens and wigan tried to find were she was laid to rest ,
Do you have an idea when she passed Tom? A quick look on Google I found the following: -
http://www.shevingtonpc.gov.uk/Documents/A%20Shevington%20Boyhood.compressed.pdf
Also a quick search on Free BMD:-
Deaths Mar 1934
Beech Minnie 64 Wigan 8c 127
Thanks Andrew that's minnie can't find her grave tried but no luck she was born in bidulph staffordshire.
Do you have the death certificate? It may yeald further information. Happy to help out I had the same problems finding my great-grandfather.
Can anyone please post a picture of the Duncan Arms, that was in Crooke Village?
Sorry Andrew that's what I need they charge a fee now , may try the history shop or the cemetery office thank youl for the offer .
i am looking for information on my mother Elsie May Johnson who i believe lived in crooke village in the 1930s. thanks for your help