Description:A Charity in Abbey Street – a group of schoolchildren collecting money for Sunday School funds – from a village sunk in the stupour of Sunday morning and old age. A village largely built between 1840 and 1880 to house the people that came to the valley to work in the mines and furnaces of the Silverdale Company. People who came from nearby country villages such as Betley, Balterly and Barthomley. From older decaying industrial centres such as Church Lawton and from Ireland – which was in the grip of the potato famine. Houses were built for them. Terraces of identical houses, built from standardised designs. Two rooms up, two down – a toilet and wash house down the yard. For uniformity was a virtue in this Victorian England. It was cheap and it gave no one aspirations. Only the names were pretentious; Victoria Street, Albert Street, Sneyd Terrace. A far cry from the older Casey, Dixie’s Bank and Bethel Bank.