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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. The employed a housekeeper and met there on Monday and Friday evenings ina kind of Masonic lodge and called each other "Borther". Many of the working men involved had mt in tavernas and public spacess in Warrington, Manchester and Liverpool.[1]
References
- ↑ Lancaster Gazette, 20 August 1906.
