Newby Bridge
Newby Bridge photos (18 available)
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Newby Bridge books (5 available)
So You Think You Know? Kendal
Hardback
Penrith Photographic Memories
Hardback
Windermere Photographic Memories
Paperback
- 6 photos on Newby Bridge appear in 4 Frith books - View photos of Newby Bridge
- Read extracts and see photos from these books on Newby Bridge and Cumbria
Newby Bridge memories
Read and share memories of Newby Bridge and Cumbria inspired by Frith photos
Staveley village
I would like to share with your readers that my father Alban Crossley was born in Staveley and his mother Ethel Crossley (nee Bateman) worked in the bobbin mill in Staveley. Unfortunately my grandfather Michael Crossley died as a result of a motorbike accident. My father died in 1983 age 59years old.
We lived in Staveley in 1976 and I really liked the area and have been to visit it on a few occasions over the years. I wonder does any of your readers have any photos of any of my relatives as I have very little information on them apart from my father photographed in the book on Staveley school winning a race. Looking ...read more here
Contributed by Ann Brennan
John Wilson
My grandfather worked as wheelwright for Thomas Wren, ajoining the Swan Hotel. Can any relitive of Thomas Wren please give me any more information? His name was John Hartley Wilson of Lakeside.
My E Mail is johnwilson45@tiscali.co.uk THANK YOU
Ken Wilson
Contributed by john wilson
Childrens names.
The children in the boat are Leslie (boy), Harry (his brother), Noel (his sister) Wren. His other sister Millie Wren is sitting on the riverbank. The other child is a neighbour. For many years Millie Wren was a teacher at Lightburn School, Ulverston.
Contributed by Jean Wren
Cumbria memories
Staveley village
I would like to share with your readers that my father Alban Crossley was born in Staveley and his mother Ethel Crossley (nee Bateman) worked in the bobbin mill in Staveley. Unfortunately my grandfather Michael Crossley died as a result of a motorbike accident. My father died in 1983 age 59years old.
We lived in Staveley in 1976 and I really liked the area and have been to visit it on a few occasions over the years. I wonder does any of your readers have any photos of any of my relatives as I have very little information on them apart from my father photographed in the book on Staveley school winning a race. Looking ...read more here
A memory of Newby Bridge contributed by Ann Brennan
Extracts From Newby Bridge & Cumbria books
Much of the large area
included in the centre
is woodland. Here
the ‘camp’ title is well
justified by the neatly
erected tents, with
two people folding
ground sheets (left).
An extract from from"Windermere Photographic Memories".
The locomotive comes tender first into Newby Bridge station, where it is awaited by the station-master. The Ulverston to Lakeside line was built in 1869, but closed and then reopened again in 1965 as a tourist railway. The station buildings have gone, but the line is still open as part of the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway.
An extract from from"50 Classics - Railways".
Here we have a quintessential country branch line railway station scene, with the Furness Railway Greenodd to Lakeside
train approaching the platform. The stationmaster watches carefully as the little girl is brought back from the edge of
the platform by her mother, whilst the boy clutches his wicker basket. Following the closure of the line by British Rail in
1968, the station has been brought back into use as part of the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway; the building has been
replaced, and only the columns remain of the distinctive platform lamps.
An extract from from"Windermere Photographic Memories".
A short distance downstream from Fell Foot, a young boy watches
for fish in the shallow, reed-grown water by the shore, apparently
in charge of a large rowing boat. Gummer’s How rises to a
summit of 1054ft behind the Fell Foot boathouse. All the area of
land to the right is part of the Fell Foot estate, now owned by the
National Trust.
An extract from from"Windermere Photographic Memories".
This is the approach road from the Barrow in Furness direction to Newby Bridge, now the A590, with the Swan Hotel on the
far side of the bridge. The main road, widened in more recent years, swings to the right at the junction where the solitary
pedestrian is standing in what would now be a suicidal position. The roadside house (Newby Bridge House), the big tree
and the cottages are virtually unchanged since 1940, but the motor bike and sidecar (centre) are very much of the 1930s.
An extract from from"Windermere Photographic Memories".