Wrea Green, The School c.1965
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W527018
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There has been a school here for 300 years. In the 17th century James Thistleton left money for building a Free School, and in the 18th century Nicholas Sharples from London gave money to it because he remembered his childhood in the village. Miss Croft and Mrs Cardwell taught at the school in the 1920s. Village characters once abounded; one of them was Cockle Maggie, who like Molly Malone from Ireland worked the village selling Lytham shellfish and freshly-caught eels. In 1959 Wrea Green won Lancashire's Best Kept Village competition.
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