Former cotton mill built in 1804, the target of a Luddite attack in 1812.
Westminster Gazette
London Liberal evening newspaper published from 1896 until 1928, distinctive for its green newsprint.
Wharton Hall Colliery
Wharton Hall Colliery was in Little Hulton on the Lancashire Coalfield in Lancashire, north west England.
Whipping Tom
Name given to two sex offenders, one in London and the other in the nearby village of Hackney, active in 1681 and 1712 respectively.
Whirligig (TV series)
BBC television programme for children broadcast from 1950 until 1956.
Whisky Galore (novel)
Novel by Compton Mackenzie based on the real-life 1941 sinking of a ship carrying a large quantity of whisky, and the local residents' attempts to recover it and hide it from the authorities.
White Barrow
Neolithic long barrow on Salisbury Plain.
White City, Stretford
Former botanical gardens that hosted the largest art exhibition ever held in the UK, now a retail park.
White Cross Army
Organisation set up in 1883 by the social campaigner and author Ellice Hopkins, together with the Bishop of Durham, to promote “social purity”.
White poppy
The white poppy was introduced in 1933 by the British Women's Cooperative Guild as a pacifist alternative to the Royal British Legion's annual red poppy appeal.
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