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KATHLEEN Muriel Oakes was the daughter of Harry Oakes and resided with her parents at Pool Head Farm, Darnhall. She had been apprenticed to a dressmaker, Mrs Maddocks in High St, and on leaving each day, she would cycle home. On Monday, January 12, 1914, she had left work at about 8pm and set off for home. As usual, she cycled down Woodford Lane, Hebden Lane and into Oakes’s Lane (to give an idea of these locations today – Woodford Lane is split by the dual carriageway and becomes Woodford Lane West, continuing until it reached the junction with Blakeden Lane crossroads, where it joined Blakeden Lane and Oakes’s Lane). ....