Records of Victoria Institute (Hartshead Moor) of the Society of Friends 1868-1922
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Victoria Institute, Hartshead Moor, of the Society of Friends.
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The Victoria Institute, at Hartshead Moor near Scholes, was established in 1868. This was largely on the intiative of Robert Firth Crosland (of the long-established local Quaker family), who acted firstly as Secretary and Treasurer, and then as President. One of the Institute's first activities was to form a brass band. An Adult School for men and women, a Band of Hope, a reading room and circulating library, a cricket club and a savings bank also developed at the Institute, which formed a socia...
