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can you shed light on ‘blackwites’?
2:02pm Thursday 20th March 2008
By Gill Johnson »
THIS 83-year-old photograph was found by a Looking Back reader in the back of a picture frame.
It shows a pierrot troupe from 1925, from the Langho Colony, called the Blackwites'.
Does anyone know anything about them, or recognise anyone here?
The Langho Colony was founded by the Joint Asylum Committee of the Chorlton and Manchester Board of Guardians in 1906 as a hospital for epileptics.
It was sited off the A59 Longsight Road.
In 1929 its control passed to Manchester City Council and it is known that soldiers stunned by bomb blasts, and which triggered fits, were sent there even during the Second World War.
It closed in 1984.
Manchester Archives hold the records of the Langho Colony, which include admission and discharge books, a religious creed register, registers of deaths, and a burial register, 1907-17 June 1929.
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