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Originally Posted by DerekJRipley
Perhaps you can collaborate with me on Vol II of Forgotten Lancashire, garinda?
In the Blunt archives I found an awful lot of material about the Wigan School of Home Economics, so I was able to devote a chapter in my book to it. And I came across Chorley Co-operative Cattle Products, but nothing on the Chorley Cake Institute (although Sydney and Beatrice Website were reputedly killed by agents of the NKVD Cake Division operating from Chorley).
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You've never heard of, or been to the Chorley Cake Institute?
Red brick building? Southport Road?
No?
Suprising. You being a man of letters and all, and we're told, historian.
It was founded in 1891, to give local unemployed bobbin carriers the chance to better themselves, if they didn't have the academic qualifications to get into that decidedly more prestigious place of further education, the Wigan Pie Polytechnic.