John James Whitley
John James Whitley was born at Newton-in-Makerfield (Newton-le-Willows) in 1868. His father, Thomas, was a clerk in holy orders and his mother was the daughter of a Mansfield tobacco merchant. John James (J J) was educated at The College School in...
Miss Mary Green
In 1877 a Board School for infants only was built at Hatton. Three years later a girl was born in Croft, near Culcheth, who would move to Hatton as a child and eventually go on to become the school’s longest serving schoolmistress. Her name was...
Thomas Taylor
Did you know that one of the survivors of The Battle of Rorke's Drift, a British victory in the Anglo- Zulu War of 1879, was born in Hatton?
You may have seen the 1964 film "Zulu", which is the story of the 155 soldiers who successfully defended the...
