Im not as old as you lot , and dont know what a blue plaque is?

Andrede

Town: Stubshaw Cross

Hi Andrede
Age isn't important to know about, "blue plaques" one has to be a qualified anorak, prefferably with honours.
Blue Plaques are put onto buildings that are associated with someone famous,I think they have to be dead to qualify.
Baron Gormley of Makerfield, was born in Ashton and became president of the NUM. From current reading history is telling a different story to what was understood at the time. Far from being anti-establishment as many people thought at the time, he is now seen as a moderating influence. It is even said that he was working with the special branch and MI5 against subversive elements.Although apart from this forum, there is very little one can believe that is in print.
Regards
Alan
ps the views above are mine, I await other views. What conection to the heading, well perhaps, just perhaps he may have managed to take a dip in Ashton baths before the leak.

Town: Bryn Road Car & Lorry Park

Hi David,
Got the book "The Battered Cherub" from the library, apparently Joe Gormley was born in Duke Street.
What next?
Too late for Ashton Baths he was born in 1917
Alan

Town: Bryn Road Car & Lorry Park

Off Princess Rd?

Andrede

Town: Stubshaw Cross

yes
alan

Town: Bryn Road Car & Lorry Park

If my memory is correct, Ashton baths never opened to the public, it was built on a fault line that also runs under the Old Evans county primary school.
in the school cellar there are still slithers of glass cemented across the cetral structure foundations, the idea being if the fault moved again the glass would crack as an early warning.

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alan

Town: St-Helens