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Jones’s emporium.
Just at the back of the

Wellington was the
Corporation’s Gas Works,
which, while it may produced
some pungent smells, would
also have offered up a heap
of tired and thirsty workers,
of which a fair few would
have come straight from the
coke ovens and coal yards.

In 1888, the old pub was
replaced by the present one,
which in 1911 was home to
Mr. and Mrs. Ward. They
were assisted by the 24 year
old Thomas Gunning from
County Sligo with help from
the oldest of their five
children, who all squeezed
into its four rooms. And by
one of those nice twists of
history when the pub was
having its makeover, there
behind the 1970s plaster board, were the original lime green
wall tiles, which will have been familiar to the Ward family and

to countless
customers from the
gas workers and
textile operatives to
John and Ada
Eccles who lived
next door and sold
apples, pears,
carrots and
potatoes and may
well have sent their
Helena in for a jug
of beer to go with
the Sunday roast.

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