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	Picture source: Fred Long
The Rose & Thistle was situated at 27 West Strand.
Source: Fred Long
This pub was owned in the early 20th century by my grandparents Gilbert and Elizabeth (nee Barrow) Kirkpatrick. I remember them talking about running a soup kitchen for coal miners during a strike. My grandfather, a former miner himself, also owned a fishing boat, converted from a yacht he bought in the Isle of Man, named The Shamrock. They later bought a house on The Loop Road before eventually leaving Whitehaven for Fleetwood, Lancashire, and then Sale, Cheshire.
Gilbert Lewthwaite (April 2016)
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