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Failsworth, Lancashire
In
1871 George Cottam (1837), his wife Sarah Jane and their young son, William aged 2, were living at 171, Dob Lane Failsworth. George was still employed as a Tinplate Worker.
By June of that year they had moved further along Dob Lane to No. 100 where another son Herbert was born. In 1873 Mary
had a daughter Ada and in 1875 another girl Elizabeth was born in the town.
George (1837) died at the early age of 37 at Bethel
Place, Failsworth on 9th April 1875. At the time of his death he was still working as a Tin Plate
Worker and the reason given for his death on his death certificate refers to ‘several weeks exhaustion’. We have no record of when Sarah Jane and her family left Failsworth.
Bethel Schools
Oldham Road, Failsworth
The schools opened the year before George Cottam
died in Bethel Place.
On
the old Manchester to
Oldham road four miles from the city centre, Failsworth enjoys the motto ‘True Worth Never Fails’. In the centre of the town is a ‘Pole’ first erected in 1793 reputedly to ‘overawe’
the Jacobins and demonstrate the townships loyalty to monarchy. The original
‘Pole’ has been replaced four times for various reasons over the years.
The population in 1830 was 3,358 and the first cotton mill was opened in 1834 and was quickly followed by many others. The town was also famous for its hat manufacture and later engineering. On its southern
edge the town has some lovely countryside with the village of Woodhouses and the Daisy Nook Country Park.
Salton Mill, Failsworth
the mill stands on the Rochdale Canal
Among
the more famous people who were born and lived in Failsworth are Ben Brierley the Lancashire Poet and more recently Michael
Atherton the England
cricket captain.
Ben Brierley's cottage still stands on
Oldham Road, Failsworth, quite close
to the Cloggers Arms, one of the many
old pubs in the town.
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