Object number
81/5
Description
A black shawl with delicate open work and tassles around the border. It belonged to the donor's grandmother who spent her life in Lancashire, at Bury, Barrowford and at Colne.
Archival history
MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Museum of English Rural Life): "This shawl was worn by the donor’s grandmother, Ellen Anne Brookes (nee Hayhurst or Hurst). She was the daughter of a blacksmith and was in or near Bury, Lancs. c. 1846. She married William Brooks who was a loom worker in a cotton mill. They lived in Bury, later in Barrowford, near Colne, and she spent her later life as a widow in Colne where she died aged 85 in 1933."
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External document
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_15701.tif - High resolution image
