Aspatria, Market Place c.1960
Photo ref:
A295006
Photo ref:
A295006
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The memorial fountain to Sir Wilfred Lawrence, the local MP and campaigner in the Temperance Movement, dominates the Market Place. Aspatria's unusual-sounding name means 'the place of St Patrick's ash', a reference to the early Celtic Christians who followed the Irish saint.
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A Selection of Memories from Aspatria
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Aspatria
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My dad had the grocers shop opposite the gift shop, there was a shoe shop a childrens clothes shop, a launderette, a wool shop, Mrs Tinnion with her small Pekinese dogs, Bobby Askews the hardware shop who sold absolutely everything anyone ever needed. The huge ugly car park was built and some smaller houses were pulled down. Robinsons fish and chip shop, the best in Cumberland. On the occasions I drive through ...see more
My great-grandparents Robert Close and Annie Head were married at this church on January 8th 1888.
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