Salt Lake Cottages, Ribblehead

A Memory of Chapel-le-Dale.

I lived at Salt Lake Cottages with my parents Stan and Elsie Simpson. Dad was a signalman on the railway. I was very young at the time and had moved from Rycroft at Newby, where I was born. I spent my summer holidays at Long Marton near Appleby and stayed with relatives there. My mother died from the dreaded TB which may not have been helped by the inhospitable conditions up there. Left on his own with a young child, my Dad had to move somewhere more hospitable and moved to Gargrave, where he also worked on the railway. I was interested to read an account of another member who remembered staying at Salt Lake Cottages with her grandparents.

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