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Abbeystead, Lancashire

Abbeystead maps

Historic maps of Abbeystead and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Abbeystead maps

Abbeystead map

Historic map of Abbeystead

Lancashire map

Illustrated Victorian map of Lancashire

Abbeystead map

Historic Map of any Abbeystead postcode

Abbeystead maps
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Abbeystead photos

We have no photos of Abbeystead, although we do have photos of these nearby places: Low Dolphinholme, Dolphinholme, Trough Of Bowland, Quernmore, Galgate, Scorton, Brookhouse, Dunsop Bridge, Caton

Abbeystead books

Displaying 3 of 14 books about Abbeystead and the local area.   View all Abbeystead books

Lancashire - A Second Selection Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14

Heart of Lancashire Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14

The Fylde Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14

Abbeystead books
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Memories of Abbeystead

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Lancashire memories

1958-1964

My name is Steve Whitfield, we lived in Whitecroft (on the Crossroads) and that is where I grew up. Went most of my time to boarding school with my two brothers, dating back to the 1960s. My father was employed as Chief Accountant for Jas. Williamson in Lancaster (remember them?) and I have so many wonderful memories as a child, cycling... [more]

Shared on 26 November 2008

Growing up

My memories are of growing up at Barkinggate Farm in Roeburndale, attending Sunday school at Roeburndale chapel, and attending Wray school in the 1940s, and later on Burton-in -Lonsdale school.
I left Roeburndale in 1961.

Shared on 09 March 2009 by Ted Holmes.

Henrys. Market Street.

I used to work at Henrys store, in the stock room. It was my first real job. It was a great old place. In the cellar was a secret passage way to the castle, bricked up from when there was a farmhouse there, I was told.
Christmas time was fantastic with Father Christmas and the grotto, and Father Christmas was my... [more]

Shared on 07 December 2008 by Allan Holmes.

chapel

Each week, as a 15 - 16 year-old, I used to cycle from Morecambe on a Sunday morning for an organ lesson at the chapel of the Moor Hospital. It was uphill there and downhill home. My teacher was the organist there, also Director of Music at LRGS, and my lesson started after the Sunday morning service. As I progressed I... [more]

Shared on 24 April 2008 by Ian Gerrard.

Extracts From Abbeystead & Lancashire books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Abbeystead, inspired by Frith photos.

Accrington Old and New Photographic Memories

In a few yards there were many clothes shops here, including Weaver to Wearer, Burtons and Fifty Shilling Tailors Ltd. The building on the corner of Broadway with the stylish curved frontage (right) housed Woods the tobacconist's and Porter's Wallpapers, both familiar names to Accringtonians over many years.

Accrington Old and New Photographic Memories

This part of Blackburn Road was a hive of activity with lots of shops. The electric tram (just visible under the bridge) shows that the photograph was taken after 1907, when the old steam trams of the Baltic Fleet were withdrawn. The Baptist chapel (centre left) was built in 1836, but since a larger building was erected on Cannon Street in 1874, it has undergone many changes of use.

Accrington Old and New Photographic Memories

The Town Hall was originally known as the Peel Institution, and was used as Assembly Rooms. The etching on the windows, 'Magistrates Room' and 'Solicitors Room', reminds us that the Magistrates' Courts were also housed here for many years. The police station, just visible behind on the left at the top of Union Street, was accessible from the court via an underground passage for the prisoners to pass through on their way from dock to cell. The imposing ballroom has seen... [more]

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