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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 was allowed to play the recesssional after the service. Every few years I come back to look at that magnificant building (the Annex) and think of all those thousands of people, staff and patients, who kept that sanctuary alive - a city within a city - which care within the community cannot now hope to replicate. I regret its demise ...read more here
Contributed by IAN GERRARD
Williamson Park Gate House
The 1881 census shows my grandfather (John Smart) and his family living in this house. He was the Landscape Gardener of the park.
Contributed by hazel veitch
Lancashire memories
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 was allowed to play the recesssional after the service. Every few years I come back to look at that magnificant building (the Annex) and think of all those thousands of people, staff and patients, who kept that sanctuary alive - a city within a city - which care within the community cannot now hope to replicate. I regret its demise ...read more here
A memory of Lancaster contributed by IAN GERRARD
Williamson Park Gate House
The 1881 census shows my grandfather (John Smart) and his family living in this house. He was the Landscape Gardener of the park.
A memory of Lancaster contributed by hazel veitch
Extracts From Lancaster & Lancashire books
Later known as the Lancaster Moor Hospital, it opened on 28 July 1816. At first there were only 60 ‘inmates’, but by 1836 the asylum had been extended and could accommodate 406 patients. A report in 1841 identified the causes of insanity for those admitted, which included such things as: ‘intoxication’, ‘epilepsy’, ‘disappointment in affection, trade or property’ and ‘hot climate’.
An extract from from"Lancashire - A Second Selection Photographic Memories".
THE ANCIENT city of Lancaster
gave its name not only to the Palatine
County, but also to a royal house.
The Tudors were descendants of the
House of Lancaster, and the Duke
of Lancaster was part of the Tudor dynasty.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".
The old Town Hall was erected around 1781 on the site of an earlier
town hall. Major Thomas Jarratt was the designer of the building, which
opened in 1783. Market Square is the open area in front of the Town
Hall, and Market Street runs to the left. The locals liked the large Tuscan
portico and its four plain columns. The cupola and top were designed
by Thomas Harrison, and were added just after the building opened.
Harrison also designed Skerton Bridge. The total cost of the building
was £2,054 13s 7d, including a £20 bonus that Mr Dickinson, one
of the builders, had thought due to him.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".
We are looking down the street, away from the parish church, which gave
the street its name. Church Street was never as busy or popular as Market
Street. In Church Street stands the building (now the Conservative Club)
where Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed twice in 1745. The first time was in
October 1745, when he was heading south, full of hope and ready to regain
the throne of England; the second time was in December 1745, when he
was in retreat and heading north.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".
Williamson Park was a gift from the Williamson family; it was begun
by Joseph Williamson, and continued by his son (later Lord Ashton) in
memory of his father. It was a magnificent gift, and is Lancaster’s largest
park. The Williamson family started making table baize, then known as
American cloth, during the 1830s. They also made linoleum; they were
at one time the largest manufacturer of this material, and exported it
all over the world.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".