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A History of the County of Stafford
… employers, the town's improvement commissioners abolished wakes week as a holiday in 1883, substituting the first … August (Club Day) and the three following working days. 7 Wakes Monday, however, was still a school holiday in 1931. 8 … Theatre played at Leek in 1853, evidently during wakes week. 85 In the 1870s travelling companies played in …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum