Wigan Album
Woodcock Street, Wigan
1 CommentPhoto: Daniel Catterall
Item #: 34554
Daniel, found out this about him. Robert Alstead OBE, JP, Liberal Councillor and a Mayor of Wigan. A self made businessman, he was born in Upholland and educated at Wigan Elementary School and Wigan Mining & Technical College. He was working aged 10 as a railway bookstall newsboy, after schooling he began making sauces and pickles, and later went into the manufacturing and retail in the clothing trade, eventually owning a chain of shops tailoring for men in the Wigan area and founding Robert Alstead, Ltd, woollen manufacturers and clothing manufacturers.
Info from links below, and there's more info too:
https://www.loot.co.za/product/lambert-m-surhone-robert-alstead/jxwb-1447-g790
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Alstead
https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/5002590
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp102290/robert-alstead