Love letters between Rossendale couple are placed in county archive
By Peter Magill , Chief reporter A LATE Victorian love affair between a machinist and a clerk has been captured for posterity in the county archives.
Herbert Wilkins and Ethel Ormerod kept their relationship mostly under wraps, as they swapped romantic notes, after first meeting in Waterfoot in 1898.
County archives assistant Keri Nicholson said there are around 40 letters, which were found collected in a Cadbury’s Princess Elizabeth chocolate box.
The notes were acquired recently from an antiques dealer via the eBay website and are now available at Lancashire’s archives in Preston.
Keri said: “It is quite nice that they are just normal, everyday people, who talk about working in... read more
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