Extract from Harwood Friendly Societies by J J Francis, Chapter 4, page 8.
The surviving records confirm that the first year of operation of the Harwood Temperance Sick and Burial Society was from August 1836, starting with 28 members, these being:
- John Hopwood
- Thomas Peak
- George Whowell
- John Roscow
- Robert Brooks
- Samuel Scowcroft
- John Bolton
- Robert Bolton
- Edward Whittle, Snr
- Richard Scholes
- Thomas Lee
- Richard Scowcroft
- James Holt
- John Bentley
- John Holt
- William Roscow
- James Lee
- James Horrocks
- Edward Whittle
- West Scowcroft, Jnr
- John Greenhalgh
- Thomas Aspinall
- John Whittle
- Thomas Whittle
- Thomas Smith
- James Smith
- John Scowcroft
- West Scowcroft, Snr
It is interesting to note that John Bolton, James Horrocks, John Scowcroft and West Scowcroft were amongst the original 15 Trustees appointed to administer the building of the new Sunday School in 1822.
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