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Heysham, Lancashire
Heysham maps
Historic maps of Heysham and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Heysham maps
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Heysham books
Displaying 3 of 14 books about Heysham and the local area. View all Heysham books
Lancashire - A Second Selection Photographic Memories
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Heart of Lancashire Photographic Memories
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The Fylde Photographic Memories
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3 Heysham photos appear in 2 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Heysham
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Morecambe Bay Holiday Camp, aka Heysham Towers, in the early sixties as a teenager. The Towers were owned by the Holdens, I especially remember Derek and Jean. We were roused by the 'phantom buglar' and didn't have a minute to spare until 'Goodnight Campers'. We danced to Norman Robinson's band, and Jack Winston playing the organ. The activities were organised by... [more]
Shared on 01 March 2008
I have fond memories of Heysham as a child, during the 1960s, drinking nettle beer with my brother and sisters. My auntie Hilda and uncle Billy lived in Ulverston, and my uncle worked at the ICI works, I think it was Half Moon Bay, we used to go and sit on the rocks while my uncle used to bring us our... [more]
Shared on 27 March 2007
Lancashire memories
From 1952 to 1959, aged 9 to 16 and at Morecambe Grammar School, I played the piano in the solo classes at the Morecambe Musical Festival - a premier event in the calendar of the Winter Gardens. It brought in thousands of people during the week; choirs, brass bands and soloists from Scotland, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Wales etc. with all their supporters,... [more]
Shared on 29 November 2007
Torrisholme in the 1960s and 1970s
My name is Susan Railton (nee Price) and I grew up in Torrisholme in the 1960s and 1970s. It was always a place where everyone knew and cared about each other. I lived on Hyde Road and could see The Square from my bedroom. I remember going to the corner shops where Booths is now. I especially loved Mr Lupton's (I... [more]
Shared on 07 December 2008
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
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
The 1881 census shows my grandfather (John Smart) and his family living in this house. He was the Landscape Gardener of the park.
Shared on 14 October 2006
My great grandfather, Peter Wild, built the house called Uplands, on Haltex Lane on the banks of the canal in 1900 after he'd retired from the steel industry in Rotherham and Sheffield. I never met him but in 1996 I called at the house and had a lovely chat with Mrs Greenwood, the lady who lived in the flat which is... [more]
Shared on 14 January 2009
Extracts From Heysham & Lancashire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Heysham, inspired by Frith photos.
Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album
St Patrick himself is said to have been shipwrecked on the head; years later, monks came from his monastic foundation in Ireland and built this chapel in his memory. It dates from Saxon times, the 8th century, and one of the reasons it had stood so long in such an exposed spot is the mortar. It is ground-up sea shells, heated and mixed with boiling... [more]
This is an extract from Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album.
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Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album
The origins of the parish church of St Peter on Heysham Head are lost in the mists of time. The earliest recorded date is 1080, when it was noted as an old Saxon church. There was probably an earlier church on this site, built by the Angles. Quite a bit of the Saxon stonework remains today, even though the church has been added to and... [more]
This is an extract from Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album.
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Lancashire Villages Photographic Memories
These six ancient graves hewn from solid rock close to the chapel of St Patrick lie on the impressive Heysham headland. St Patrick is said to have landed here after crossing the Irish Sea on a millstone. The chapel is one of the oldest in the country; the remains of its walls are 2ft 6ins thick, bonded with immensely strong mortar... [more]
This is an extract from Lancashire Villages Photographic Memories.
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