Effigy of Lancaster journalist was burnt in Garstang marketplace in Victorian times
Hewitson saw many changes in his life; he remembered the navvies building the railway to Ingleton when he was a child, and saw an airplane fly over him on Morecambe Prom in his old age.family, and lived with them in the city while he worked as a printer’s apprentice for the Lancaster Standard in Anchor Lane from 1850, when he was 14, to 1857.
He moved on to the Midlands, before landing a job on the Preston Guardian in 1859, at that time a major newspaper.He married a Lancaster girl, Margaret Wilson, and settled in Preston, where he quickly made a name for himself. Wilson hid at Hewitson’s house to evade a warrant from the Speaker of the House of Commons, but gave evidence in the Commission of Inquiry in 1866, which led to Lancaster losing its right to elect an MP.Joseph Wilson later ran the refreshment rooms on Morecambe Pier, and Hewitson and family often visited him there.This may have been when Hewitson first took a liking to the resort; in 1911 he bought 33 Prince’s Crescent, Bare.
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