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| − | '''Great Sankey''' is a village in [[Cheshire]] now a suburban area of [[ Warrington]]. | + | '''Great Sankey''' is a village in [[Cheshire]], now a suburban area of [[ Warrington]]. |
| − | At the begining of the 19th century, a house in the village was kept as a meeting place for a society of gay men, from various social classes and various aras of north-west England. | + | At the begining of the 19th century, a house in the village was kept as a meeting place for a society of gay men, from various social classes and various aras of north-west England. They employed a housekeeper and met there on Monday and Friday evenings in a kind of Masonic lodge, and called each other "Borther". Many of the working men involved had met in taverns and public spacess in Warrington, Manchester and Liverpool.<ref>''Lancaster Gazette'', 20 August 1906.</ref> |
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Revision as of 08:38, 20 May 2012
Great Sankey is a village in Cheshire, now a suburban area of Warrington.
At the begining of the 19th century, a house in the village was kept as a meeting place for a society of gay men, from various social classes and various aras of north-west England. They employed a housekeeper and met there on Monday and Friday evenings in a kind of Masonic lodge, and called each other "Borther". Many of the working men involved had met in taverns and public spacess in Warrington, Manchester and Liverpool.[1]
References
- ↑ Lancaster Gazette, 20 August 1906.
