'The Alders' Davenport - Account Book - Page 6
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Sept - Nov 1900
Charity work also occupied the sisters: four shillings is spent
organising (or funding) an 'Auxiliary Tea.' We believe this refers to
the Ladies Auxiliary of the 'Lifeboat Saturday' charity, whose
treasurer was a neighbour, Mrs Lees of 'Fairfield', Davenport, wife of
hat manufacturer William Lees. Lifeboat Saturday was an annual event in
many towns: a procession, including an actual lifeboat, would take to
the streets to raise money for what is now the Royal National Lifeboat
Insitution. This
link has a picture of such an event in Derby.
'Blind Institute brushes' is a regular entry. The 'Institute for the
Blind and Deaf' which from the 1870s occupied a purpose-built building
on St Petersgate, Stockport, was a workshop which employed blind and
deaf people to make items such as brushes, which were then sold round
the town. The foundation stone of this building was laid in 1872 by
Miss Louisa Walthew, the blind daughter of the Mayor of Stockport; the
name is perpetuated by the present-day Walthew House on Shaw Heath.
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