Monday, 11 November 2024

World War I Memorial Plaque - Know Mill

The text on the memorial reads as follows:-

In grateful memory of the employees of Simpson and Godlee Ltd and The Know Mill Printing Company Ltd who died for justice and freedom.

They whom this tablet commemorates were numbered amongst those who at the call of King and Country, left all that was dear to them, endured hardness, faced danger and finally passed out of the sight of men by the path of duty and self-sacrifice, giving up their own  lives that others might live in freedom.

Let those who come after see to it that their names be not forgotten.

Know Mill Employees
Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1918


Harry Abbott
George H. Baguley
Robert Baldwin
William E. Barton
George H. Berry
Fred Birrell
George R. Booth
Samuel W. Brockbank
William Brookes
William Butterworth
Joseph H. Clements
Arthur J. Curle
Alfred Dalton
Thomas Davies
James Duckworth
Thomas Duckworth
James Entwistle
John Entwistle
Edward Flanagan
Ernest Grime
Harry Hayes
Samuel G. Hayward
William Heyes
Samuel Holden
Normal Knowles
Harold Knowlson
Harold Leach
Sydney Lomas
Lee Longworth
James G. Mainwaring
Isaac Mather
James Mather
Samuel Mather
William Mather
George Maybury
John Mellor
Thomas Merriman
John Miller
John Morrisey
Wilfred Platt
George Potts
Charles A. Purdy
Ambrose Raby
John Ramsbottom
Dennis Reynolds
John E. Riley
Walter T. Robinson
Harold Ross
Richard Rothwell
Wilfrid J. Sharples
Daniel H. Simpson
Thomas E. Skinner
Frank Stuart
Kingsford Taylor
Charles H. Walkden
James Walker
George Warren
William Whitehead
George Wilde
Harry Woodfin

Saturday, 2 November 2024

Yeomen of the Guard at The Grand in Bolton

We have recently received into our archive a musical score book for the Gilbert & Sullivan opera the Yeomen of the Guard.  It belonged to Major John Booth (1854 - 1925) of Hazelbank in Turton, who was a member of Bolton Amateur Operatic Society.  It includes stage manager annotations and some  newspaper cuttings and theatre programmes.  It seems that he lent this score to a lady called Miss Jackson for a Radcliffe Bridge Wesleyan Choir production of the Yeomen.  Our thanks to Jill Alexander for the donation.

Yeoman of the Guard at The Grand, Bolton, 1899
Yeoman of the Guard at
The Grand, Bolton, 1899