Stabling for 22 Horses, (now Park Bridge Heritage Centre), Park Bridge, Tameside

Fittings                 Mulgrave of Belfast

REARING DINNER* - Last night, the workmen, with a few friends, who have been employed in erecting a handsome pile of buildings—stabling, etc., for 22 horses—for Messrs. H. Lees and Son, Park Bridge, partook of dinner at the house of Mr. Robert Woolley, Tim Bobbin Inn, Dukinfield, in commemoration of the rearing of the same. The style of architecture adopted corresponds with that of the beautiful mansion of Messrs. Lees, namely, gothic. The architect is Mr. John Eaton, of this town. [Ashton Reporter - Saturday 4 January 1862 page 2]

Reference           Ashton Reporter - Saturday 4 January 1862 page 2

* "Rearing Dinner" for the workmen. (The term comes from the practice of commemorating that significant stage in building a timber house when the main structural crucks, having been assembled on the ground, were raised and fixed upright by the combined efforts of all the workmen). In the Victorian period it was generally held when the roof timbers of the new buildings were finally in place.