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Luddenden maps
Historic maps of Luddenden and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Luddenden maps
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Luddenden area books
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Ancestry From Luddendenfoot
I am trying to find out about my family who came from L/Foot, The person it all starts with is called John Henry Musgrove wife Amy and daughters May & Dora, John moved from Nottingham, John who was my grandfather worked on the railway as a guard in the 1900s, They lived in Vale street where he joined the sherwood foresters in WW1. I think they where married in Sowerby St Peter. I would be very greatful for any information. I will try to put a photo of these people.
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Sowerby The Place I Was Born
This picture evokes happy memories of the village where I was born and lived for the first twenty two years of my life. I have visited it often over the past forty years whenever I was in Yorkshire, and I still find it a lovely place to be. Maybe it has become just a little too pristine, and unfortunately not improved by the many cars which line its avenue.
Place Where I Was Born
I know this part of Sowerby so well as I was born in one of the cottages in the centre left of the photo. Grandma lived in the end house and my parents in the middle one. On recent visits the place has altered somewhat and is spoilt by too many cars parked around the greens, but such is progress.
The Talbot
I used to live at the Talbot Inn. In fact, it was the one and only time I have ever had a ghostly experience, I loved the place. My Dad, was the Landlord. I cried when I found out they had demolished it in 2009. So many happy memories xxxxx
Pickwood Scar
I'm pleased to have discovered this view of Pickwood Scar - one which is impossible to get nowadays as the trees have grown up so much in the area in the foreground. A lot of the cottages in the background were demolished some years ago. I live just round the corner and walk up Dye House Lane (on the left) most days - it looks to have been much better maintained back in the 50s. Up until 1946 it was marked as a road on OS maps and must still appear as such on some SatNavs judging from the occasional vehicle that tries to get through despite the No Through Road sign!
Doodlebug
I lived in Norland for just over 50 years and remember the war years quite well, and the night the doodlebug came over and came down on a farm in Sowerby. We had a few army places including the glasshouse on Walton Street in Sowerby Bridge, we used to watch the prisoners getting drilled up and down the parade ground and the sergeant screaming at them. I also remember the railway that went up the Ryburn valley as far as Rishworth, carrying mainly coal and livestock, and I knew one of the contribitors on this site (Monica Sekulka ,and also her mum and dad). We had some happy times, things for a lot of people were bad but we always had plenty of food on the table as there was a lot of blackmarket dealing going on and I think my dad was in the middle of some of the action. Keith Marsden.
Triangle in The 50s
My name is Monica Sekulka, I lived at Oaken Royd, Triangle, on the Norland side of the valley. Our house was one of 8, back to back - which the local council decided to demolish in their haste for modernity sometime in the 70s. We moved to Dodge Royd Farm, just a couple of hundred yards from Oaken Royd in the 60s. I remember walking to Triangle primary school over the old bridge by Rough Hey Woods and I have a memory very early in the 50s of steam trains passing through - all I could see was the smoke from the engines - a ghostly mist through the trees. There used to be a railroad station at Triangle, which once the railway ceased became the local boyscouts meeting place - it was finally destroyed by arson - pity. I remember the old co-op, that's where we did our shopping, I even remember the police station - with its blue light. I remember the... Read more
