Selected historic photos of Billinge

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  Beacon Road
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  Bob Senny
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  Bill Martlew
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  Billinge Hospital when it was a Workhouse bottom right.
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  Alice Swift
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  Edward Swift
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  Bessy, Alice & Jimmy Fairhurst about 1920
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  Councillors at 1912 Bonfire
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  We have donated the records of Brownheath Colliery, in which about 180 local employees are named, to St Helens Library.
• We have other photos of Pit Brow Lasses that we can e-mail to you.
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• Billinge School was saved & reopened by the Eddleston Trust, about which there's an appendix in the main text.
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  The Mather family practised medicine in Billinge for over 100 years. The family matriarch, Elizabeth nee Peet, pictured above, was raised by Yorkshire Charlie. Her remarkable story is part of the main text, contributed by Hugh Mather.

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