Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Historical Medals

Preston Floral and Horticultural Society (Est. 1870), a silver award medal, unsigned, arms, rev. wreath, named (Awarded to Thomas Miller for Twenty Herbaceous Plants (Distinct), Guild Year 1882), 53mm; Golden Hill School, Leyland, 1887, a silver Trustees medal for Victoria’s Golden Jubilee by W.H. Watts, 45mm (W & E p.100 [not seen]); The Leyland Hundred Agriculture Society, a silver award medal, unsigned [by J. Pinches], un-named, 49mm [3]. First very fine, others extremely fine and in cases of issue £80-£100

Provenance: First DNW Auction M11, 13 July 2011, lot 1456 (part); second DNW Auction 143, 12 December 2017, lot 18.

The Balshaw School at Golden Hill, named after Richard Balshaw (1725-1811), was founded, it would appear, in June 1782, not 1784 as the second medal would imply. The school, called Golden Hill, continued until the 1920s when work started on building a new school. This continues to flourish as Balshaw's Church of England High School. In 1887 the current Master was John de Pennington (Head Master from 1870 to 1899) and the current Mistress was Annie McGregor