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W.R. Deakin’s Annual Picnic, 7 September 1895

On Saturday 7 September 1895, W.R. Deakin’s annual picnic for his employees was held at Whittle Springs, to the north of Wigan in Lancashire. The Wigan Observer and District Advertiser reported on 14 September 1895: During the morning the weather was very unpropitious, but about noon “the clouds rolled by”, and the party, in high

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Rev. Samuel W. Deakin Writes Home from the USA, November 1911

Methodist Episcopal Ministry, Des Moines, Iowa Aged 25, Samuel Wesley Deakin (1886-1956) a member of the Wesleyan Church, travelled to Iowa in August 1911 to enter the Methodist Episcopal Ministry. Founded by John Wesley in 1784, the Methodist Episcopal Church was the oldest Methodist denomination in the United States. The First United Methodist Church in

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