I asked on the previous posting about how areas of our towns got there names ,Well DUFFYBAGS (Aka Andy Duffy ) sent this in to me via e-mail ----
Oldham Mumps
The area around the main railway station on the edge of Oldham town centre is known as 'Mumps'. The name Mumps or Mumps bridge first appears in the Oldham Parish Registers at the end of the 17th century. The origin of the name is not certain. Ga-mumpi is a very old word that means the land at the meeting of two streams. A stream used to run from Gravel Walks which met another stream which came from Bridgewater Street and down Brook Street (diverted when the railway was built). Another possible source for the name is that in early English dialect mumps meant alms, and a mumper was a beggar; as there was once a workhouse in the district it may have derived its name from this source.
The later part of what Duffybags says
is the most thought of the Name Mumps
as he says a "Mumper" was a beggar.It
is mentioned as a gathering place for
the beggars. Jack.
Lancashire Re-United offers for sale and exclusive to this website prints of original artwork of LANCASHIRE BUSES and other Transport modes by WALLACE TRICKETT who has VERY KINDLY given me the selling rights to these prints.
Simply click on LANCASHIRE PRINTS to purchase these stunning memories of Lancashire's municipal transport heritage the list of which just keeps growing and growing
Lancashire Memories 
