Not sure if this is connected to our Phillips
Burnley Express and Advertiser, June 5, 1926
Belated Golden Wedding Celebration
There is to be a happy gathering at the Salvation Army Hall, Holme Street, tonight, in celebration of the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Phillips, of 56 May Street. The event is somewhat belated in that Mr. and Mrs. Phillips were married at Burnley Registry Office in May, 1875, and celebrations should have taken place last year. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips, who reside with a married daughter, Mrs. Buzza, are both 69 years of age, Mrs.
Phillips being 69 on May 10th, and her husband on the following day. They hail from Cornwall, and came to this locality with a contingent of Cornwall people who came to work in Lancashire mines about 57 years ago. Mr. Phillips was brought up in a fishing town, and participated in the fishing industry until he was twelve years of age. He admitted he did not like the mill, saying he would “sooner be in prison” and he soon commenced work in the coal mine, an occupation he has followed up to the present day. He has worked at Bank Hall Colliery for about twenty years, and he and Mr. Dan Duxbury, J.P.
are trustees of Bank Hall Miners Lodge. He has also been on the committee for many years. Mrs Phillips father was a foreman in a Cornwall copper mine, and prior to coming to this district she used to walk seven miles each day to earn 4d. a day in the copper mines. She received her “salary” at the end of each month. For twenty years Mr. and Mrs. Phillips have had a close connection with the Salvation Army at Fulledge. They have had eleven children, seven of whom are still living, and they have nineteen grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
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