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Higher Walton maps
Historic maps of Higher Walton and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Higher Walton maps
Higher Walton photos
We have no photos of Higher Walton, although we do have photos of these nearby places: Hoghton, Walton-Le-Dale, Bamber Bridge, Lostock Hall, Preston, Farington, Penwortham, Pleasington, Fulwood, Balderstone, Mellor Brook, WithnellHigher Walton books
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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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Memories of Higher Walton
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My nannie was born in Higher Walton, Catherine Hawker. When she was 6 or 7 she was in the paper for stealing a shawl and pawning it to feed her brother as her father had to go to sea. I want to find out if there is any chance we can get that paper, can anyone help?
Shared on 15 September 2008
Lancashire memories
I spent many a Saturday, walking the woods of the tower, beating sticks and making noise.
After a good 8 hours trudging up and down slopes and in the mud, they feed us a bowl of bad stew and beer. There was always a joke about who got the only piece of meat. I was the lucky recipient once, had to... [more]
Shared on 17 January 2008
My Mother: Veronica Kenny (Vera) Preston Lancashire
My mom had a best friend, her name was Marie, who married Bill and my mother was their maid of honour. My family in Scotland still have the picture of the wedding day with Bill in his army uniform.
I was born in Preston in 1944. Mom married and moved to Scotland, friendships in Preston continued and around 1950... [more]
Shared on 13 June 2009
My great-grandfather Hugh Bell (born 1854) was the 13th child to be baptised at the then new church. He was later married there in 1874 to an Alice Gradwell from Preston. One of many children of William Gradwell (born 1818) and a descendant from the famous GRADWELL family. I, Brian Freeman, was a painter and decorator and served my apprenticeship with... [more]
Shared on 01 December 2008
We are sure that the policeman standing in his box doing point duty was our dad, PC Mcginty or number 100. He was a policeman for forty years with Preston borough and we and a lot of Preston people have fond memories of him standing in that spot.
Shared on 10 September 2008
In Spring 1948 I caught my finger in a folding chair at school and by the evening an abscess had formed. It was so painful that because our doctor's surgery was already closed my father took me to the Infirmary, but we landed in the maternity department, where we were really out of place! The next day we went again,... [more]
Shared on 14 February 2008
My parents had a baby Stall on Preston Market when I was 11 years old. Mum stood Mondays and Wednesdays, and we went as a family on Saturdays when we were on the Flag market (corner top left hand stall near the Harris Art Gallery). It was freezing cold on that corner !! Everyone who was on the markets helped one... [more]
Shared on 05 January 2008
my fathers maternal grandfather was involved with the building of this building.
Shared on 02 January 2008
Extracts From Higher Walton & Lancashire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Higher Walton, inspired by Frith photos.
Accrington Old and New Photographic Memories
In a few yards there were many clothes shops here, including Weaver to Wearer, Burtons and Fifty Shilling Tailors Ltd. The building on the corner of Broadway with the stylish curved frontage (right) housed Woods the tobacconist's and Porter's Wallpapers, both familiar names to Accringtonians over many years.
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Accrington Old and New Photographic Memories
This part of Blackburn Road was a hive of activity with lots of shops. The electric tram (just visible under the bridge) shows that the photograph was taken after 1907, when the old steam trams of the Baltic Fleet were withdrawn. The Baptist chapel (centre left) was built in 1836, but since a larger building was erected on Cannon Street in 1874, it has undergone many changes of use.
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Accrington Old and New Photographic Memories
The Town Hall was originally known as the Peel Institution, and was used as Assembly Rooms. The etching on the windows, 'Magistrates Room' and 'Solicitors Room', reminds us that the Magistrates' Courts were also housed here for many years. The police station, just visible behind on the left at the top of Union Street, was accessible from the court via an underground passage for the prisoners to pass through on their way from dock to cell. The imposing ballroom has seen... [more]
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