Lancashire Legends, Traditions…
“ SCHOOL HOLIDAYS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. We frequently hear that, in the eighteenth century, old customs, festivals, and holidays were much more—much better, as some would say—observed than at present. In some articles of agreement, made in December 1790, between the trustees of the Liverpool Blue Coat Hospital and Mr James Meredith of Manchester, for the labour of two hundred children in "pin-making," for a term of eleven years, it was stipulated that the following holidays should be allowed the boys:— Christmas, fourteen days, (for amusement) . ”
