Lytham memories
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My Days at The Ormerod Home
I believe I went to the Ormerod Home, at the age of about eight or nine, as a result of the Local Authority (Blackpool) having a number of reserved places at this establishment. Homes such as this were built along the sand dunes near Blackpool in order to provide a healthy environment, in which youngsters from the north west could spend their holidays well away from the smoke and grime of the nearby Lancashire cottons towns. In my case, I was the youngest of four children whose father had died just some 5 years earlier. This meant my mother was out working both day and night to make ends meet. I suppose in these days you could say that I was sent for a period of respite. The period seem to last for about 3 to 4 months and stretched over the Christmas period. I remember this well as I had two parts in the Christmas plays the home put on. The first was as John the Baptist in the... Read more
Days Out in Lytham in The Forties And Fifties
We lived in Preston, Lancashire from 1944 to 1956 and often came here for the day on the bus. My mother preferred Lytham to Blackpool and we spent happy hours on the sands. This picture, taken before the 1st World War, is a view which my father would have seen when he came here as a child - I have a couple of photos of him on the sands with his mother and sister. I can't remember a pier - I think it had gone by the time I started coming to Lytham, and the windmill has since been rebuilt. However, the sands have now gone for ever - all there is between the promenade and the sea is a mass of weeds and not a trace of sand. I asked a couple of elderly ladies in the lifeboat house why this was so - I hadn't been to Lytham for fifty years - and they said that since the docks at Preston are no longer dredged, all... Read more
HAPPY DAYS
WELL I REMEMBER THIS VERY CLEARLY I SPENT SOME OF MY CHILDHOOD DAYS HERE CONVALESANT HOME FOR CHILDREN WE WAS SENT THERE TO CONVELESCE IN THE BRACING SEA AIR FROM POLLUTED INDUSTRIAL TOWNS . NUNS LOOK AFTER US THEY HAD LOVELY CHAPEL I BELIVED IT OPENED 1884 . I WAS THERE BETWEEN 1962 1969 AND I LOVED IT.
Happy Days
My name is Eileen Turner. I had a sister named Kathleen Turner. If anyone who went here knows me please contact me, I would love to talk to someone who went there.
My name is Sophia Ufton. I am writing this on behalf of my mom, thanks.
Memories of Lancashire
Castle
I always go to the beach and I did when I was little and I remember a type of building on the beach opposite from the beach terrace cafe. I always thought it was castle ruins, it was made of big stones and it looked like it had been knocked down years ago. I used to play on it when I was little and then one day it was gone, it had been taken away, it was probably unsafe because it looked very old. I've tryed to find out about it but there is nothing on the internet about it. But on the old Google Earth you can see it but not on the street view. I wish I knew what it was and the history of it. If anyone knows anything about it please can you tell me by writting it as a memory.
Village Centre
I moved to this village in 1967 aged 14. The main building in the centre of the picture is a bank, I think it was the National which later became the National and Westminster Bank. Beyond the bank and to the right on the corner was a Post Office. Hidden by the bank in the same row as the Post Office was a fish and chip shop, the owner used to give us free bags of "bits" from the fryers, usually bits of batter. Out of shot and to the left of the bank was Snape's Butchers. My father built his freezer room for him at the rear of the shop.
To the right of the people shown and out of shot was the C. of E. Primary School which my brothers and sisters went to, this had air-raid shelters in the grounds. This school backed onto the park area, which was paid for by the Americans to commemorate the deaths of 38 infant children, 23 civilians and 3 aircrew... Read more
Banks 1957 to 1961
I remember Banks with bittersweet memories.
I lived on Gravel Lane,just outside the village,on Gravel Lane ,there was another girl we went to school with called Carole McCabe,and we played with Janet and Edna who lived on the corner of Gravel Lane,the latter had a brother who played in Banks Brass Band.Tom Finney`s uncle also lived on the lane.
There was a farmer called Billy Ball who used to chase us off his land !
We used to pick potatoes for the farmer who lived on the Preston New Road.
We lived on land owned by Dennis Pass
We were 4 children in all my twin Kevin,my sister Angela,my brother Joe,and myself Catherine all Conley`s.
I went back to Banks last year and it was not how I remembered it,but Gravel Lane was just the same alas all the people i knew who lived there must have moved on.
I really hope someone will read this and think "oh I remember them"
Little Nellie
Hi anyone remember "Little Nellie" (husband Joe) and their daughter Annie and grand daughter Margaret, from Sultan Street in Accrington. We used to travel down on the same bus with them every Friday night. In those days, we got the bus from the bottom of Water Street/Melbourne Street (now Eastgate). They had a caravan on Thornfield for years and years. When you passed the shop and turned onto the site, their caravan was way down the bottom, tucked in a corner. Little Nellie was extremely small and always seemed to wear mens wide legged trousers, with turn ups!
June
I Was There When Pic Was Being Taken
The camp shop pic was being taken when I was stopped while leaving the Bungalow next to the orchard, I was 8 yrs old. I was going to the shop. The 2 women I think were Auntie Dorene on the left from the house on the left, she was working in the shop part time, and Auntie Nellie Scott who also worked there, she rented the second house down from us, from my mum Clara. We later had Sunnyside Cafe built in 1967. Margaret Hall worked for my mum then, they were new to the village, she worked at the mushroom factory as well.
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