New Residents of Picton Cottage

PICTON Cottage is featured in this picture which was submitted to St John’s Local History Group by Gill Prescot.
In 1974 the cottage was converted into new flats and the photograph shows the new tenants.
Pictured is the Rev Stewart Symonds with the tenants, including Bert Humphries, Harriet Humphreys, Daisy Ashton, Madge Conway, Eady Lamey and architect Mr Saunders.
The Bishop of Warrington Michael Henshall is also among the group pictured.

Picton College was built in 1851 for John Podley and he named it after the Duke of Wellington’s general, Sir Thomas Picton, who was killed in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.