An interesting photograph Of Egerton URC (Originally Egerton Congregational) showing the Sunday school on the right now demolished to create the current car park & ladies at the Sunday school mid-1880s.
Edward Carr Deakin was described as being of a quiet & reserved disposition, an Ernest Christian Man with strongly grounded religious beliefs. In 1873 he contributed £300 to the cost of the rebuilding of the chapel, the total cost being £ 4,657
Images courtesy of the author S J Tongue and Turton Local History Society kindly loaned by Doreen Healey
