You are here:
Boustead Hill
Boustead Hill maps
Historic maps of Boustead Hill and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Boustead Hill maps
Boustead Hill photos
We have no photos of Boustead Hill, although we do have photos of these nearby places:
Burgh-By-Sands| Port Carlisle| Bowness-On-Solway| Mill Hill| Gretna Green| Cummersdale| Dalston| Annan
Boustead Hill area books
Displaying 1 of 10 books about Boustead Hill and the local area. View all books for this area
You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Boustead Hill
No memories of Boustead Hill have been shared yet - be the first!
Add your memory of Boustead Hill
or of a photo of Boustead Hill.
Cumbria memories
That Was Home
My grandmother, Margaret Flint, was landlady of the Greyhound from sometime during WW2 until 1954. I lived there from 1944 until she retired. Being a publican meant grandmother was entitled to more than the normal rations in the immediate post war era since she was required to provide food to any traveller. Travellers were few and far between however one day George Bernard Shaw and companion appeared on the doorstep in the afternoon requiring tea so she had to fulfill her duty.
Searching For my Roots
My paternal grandfather John Routledge was from little Bampton. He had a horse called Tam o' Shanter which was a sulky trotter named after the local pub. I would love to find out more about him.
Glasson in 1901
My father Willliam Harold Brown was born in Glasson on 2nd April 1921. Those listed in l901 are: Barnes, Mary , lodgings Bell, John, grocer Cardwell, Henry Gordon, Robt, vict. and cowkeeper, Fish Inn Hewitt, Thomas Pattinson, Thomas Joseph, butcher Sharp, John, joiner, Glasson Mill Thompson, Mary, vict., grocer and bacon curer, Highland Laddie Inn Wills, Robert, stone mason FARMERS Armstrong,William Bell, Irving, Walker House Bewsher. William (yeoman) Orchard House Foster, Joseph Graham, George. Low Flow Percival, Fanny Robson, David Saul, Mary Ann, Kirkland House Sharp, Betsy (owner) Aikshaw Sharp, Sarah, owner, steam corn, sawmill, joiners shop Whitfield, Jacob Wilson, Joseph
The Dandy
Hi, I am looking for pictures and written accounts about The Dandy horse drawn train as my great-great-great-grandad used to drive it, his name was Isaac Hickson. Hope someone can get back to me at angelaquinn2009@live.co.uk. Thank you, Angela Quinn.
Kirkandrews School in The 50's
We moved to Woodside, Kirkandrews in l956. It was a boarding kennel and my father, Harold Brown, turned the l4 acres into a small farm. The school was two rooms, one heated by a stove and the other with a fireplace. The toilets were outside, and the sinks in the school porch. I don't think there could have been more than 20 pupils. Mrs Wannop came from Carlisle and taught the younger children. She brought her baby boy, John, with her every day. Mrs Walby was headmistress and lived in the school house on the premises. The yard wasn't paved then and we had many games of rounders outside. Education was basic to say the least, very low key. I moved on to Caldew eventually and took the standard secretarial course. Thanks to Mrs Southern those skills have always been useful. I was the Matron's secretary at the Infirmary and after I moved to the USA, got a... Read more
Great Orton
My father, Thomas James Armstrong, was living in Great Orton before he went to war in 1915 with the Border Regiment. He was awarded a gold Great Orton medal for his service. Does anyone know anymore information about him or his family or the story behind the medals? His father was James Armstrong, from Lanercost, & his mother Isabella Armstrong nee Storry/Story, from Thurstonfield.
Any information would be gratefully recieved.
Great Grandmother's Burial
My paternal great grandmother Mary Annie Hutchinson was buried at St Michael's church on March 26th 1945. There is a reference to it in the church's Monthly Magazine for May 1945. Also referenced in the same magazine is an acknowledgement of donations to the churchyard fund in appreciation from her children, Mr C Hutchinson, Mr G Hutchinson and Mrs S Thirlwell. The last named was my grandmother, and at this time she lived at Westmead, Bowness.
I was born a few months after this, but down south, in Hampshire.
