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COMMEMORATIVE PLATE

250mm Square plate with leaf design in brown. In centre buckle endorsed Wesleyan Schools Chorley".

COMMEMORATIVE PLATE

Plate 235mm diameter with pink edging. In centre motif with Holinshead Street, Sunday School, Chorley, 1870.

Commemorative Cup

View of Town hall on front. Written beneath - CHORLEY NEW TOWN HALL - FOUNDATION STONE LAID JAN. 2. 1875 BY R. SMETHURST. ESQ. HIGH SHERIFF - OPENED BY THE RIGHT HON. F. STANLEY. AUG 2 1879

Sir Henry Tate

An industrialist who had made his fortune as a sugar refiner, Henry Tate offered his collection of art to the nation on the condition that a gallery dedicated to British art was built. The son of...

Town Hall Plans from 1873 newspaper

1873, Plans for new town Hall Published