Great Sankey
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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. 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.
