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Forum: Heritage and History 16-12-2009, 21:50

Replies: 61 Alma Inn Baxenden Views: 7,972 Posted By Retlaw Re: Alma Inn Baxenden If you read Ainsworths crap he says Magpie/Figpie/Hagpie Hall [it has been called all these names] was knocked down to make way for the Alma. Magpie/Figpie/Hagpie Hall was next to Astins Farm at...

Forum: Heritage and History 19-11-2009, 22:23

Replies: 61 Alma Inn Baxenden Views: 7,972 Posted By Retlaw Re: Alma Inn Baxenden Further to this question re the Alma Inn. If you read that tripe by Ainsworth in his Old Home Steads he contradicts himself. First he says he knew nothing about Magpie Hall, till he met an old...

Forum: Heritage and History 19-11-2009, 14:27

Replies: 61 Alma Inn Baxenden Views: 7,972 Posted By Retlaw Re: Alma Inn Baxenden In August 1916. Mrs Loynd, Alma Inn, Baxenden was informed that her son John Anderton of the M.G.C., had D.O.W. July 14th 1916 (19) John's father had died in 1900 and she married Arthur Loynd....

Forum: Heritage and History 19-11-2009, 10:22

Replies: 61 Alma Inn Baxenden Views: 7,972 Posted By Retlaw Re: Alma Inn Baxenden That bit about Magpie Hall is some more of Ainsworths fiction, Magpie Hall was no where near the Alma, and there were no buildings in that area when Blind Jack built Manchester Road. Magpie Hall...

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