A Northumbrian Odyssey
June 2nd 2006 Part VIII
2nd June - Friday
Black pudding for breakfast today…we are being so spoilt on this trip!
Our first mission today was to go to Cowpen to find 14 Wanley Street where Thomas Wake - coal miner, lived with his family in the 1881 census. Thomas is from Linda’s mother’s mother’s family. We found the street and only a few houses were remaining - the rest had made way for a supermark
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