147 Darlington Street East, Wigan

This was the address of Francis WhitfieldElizabeth Harrison, and their children, at the birth of daughter Doris in February 1900 and again at the time of the 1901 census. Elizabeth Harrison was Henry Harold Harrison Sr’s aunt. The 1907 Ordinance Survey Map (image, left) shows Darlington Street East to be a crowded residential street close to Wigan town centre. Today it is main thoroughfare, also known as the A577, running east from the town centre.