Brookhouse
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Brookhouse books (15 available)
Lancaster Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Lytham St Anne's Town and City Memories
Paperback
Heart of Lancashire Pocket Album
Paperback
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Lancashire memories
Grandparents
My grandparents live just off shot, and have lived there for as long as I can remember!
My grandad has sadly passed away but is still nearby, he is buried in the church yard! I remember when I first met my husband, and we went to the "fenick" for a drink while my grannie got dinner ready - my grandad was a real character! I used to go mushroom picking in the fields, and walking across the fields to the river, I don't think I ever liked the cows though!! I saw my first birth there too, a cow in the field opposite, something I have never forgotten. What ever happened to local dialect? I would listen to the strange way ...read more here
A memory of Claughton contributed by lindsay barton
chapel
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 was allowed to play the recesssional after the service. Every few years I come back to look at that magnificant building (the Annex) and think of all those thousands of people, staff and patients, who kept that sanctuary alive - a city within a city - which care within the community cannot now hope to replicate. I regret its demise ...read more here
A memory of Lancaster contributed by IAN GERRARD
Williamson Park Gate House
The 1881 census shows my grandfather (John Smart) and his family living in this house. He was the Landscape Gardener of the park.
A memory of Lancaster contributed by hazel veitch
Hest Bank /Bolton le Sands
I lived with my grandparents in Bolton le Sands. I used to cycle to Morecambe most mornings, to J. W. Blands, painters and decorators, where I was apprenticed, hail rain and snow. I knew every inch of the coast road, the top of Hest Bank hill and down past the Cinderella Home, past the golf links and Happy Mount Park.
Lovely memories now ..
A memory of Hest Bank contributed by john wilson
Extracts From Brookhouse & Lancashire books
Brookhouse is an ancient village
north-east of Lancaster just above
Caton. It is at a junction on the
old Caton to Claughton road,
which we can see going off to the
left. The inn on the right is the
Black Bull, and Leslie Speckling
was landlord at the time. The five
hundred-year-old parish church
tower of St Paul’s shows up at
the top of our photograph.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".
Brookhouse is an ancient village
north-east of Lancaster just above
Caton. It is at a junction on the
old Caton to Claughton road,
which we can see going off to the
left. The inn on the right is the
Black Bull, and Leslie Speckling
was landlord at the time. The five
hundred-year-old parish church
tower of St Paul’s shows up at
the top of our photograph.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".
The wall to the left is the bridge over Tern Brook. In front of the
ancient oak are a set of steps known locally as the Fish Stones.
History tells us that they were built as a counter and shop; here the
monks from Cockersands Abbey brought salmon and other fish they
had caught in the River Lune to sell to the villagers. Only monks
were allowed to catch salmon, and the money they raised paid for
their needs and candles.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".
The southern part of Morecambe was always referred to as
the West End. Here we see the exclusive part of Morecambe.
Our view takes in Werwick’s Revolving Tower and shows what
working-class people did for their week’s holiday: they sat and
relaxed and took in the sea air.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".
The old Town Hall was erected around 1781 on the site of an earlier
town hall. Major Thomas Jarratt was the designer of the building, which
opened in 1783. Market Square is the open area in front of the Town
Hall, and Market Street runs to the left. The locals liked the large Tuscan
portico and its four plain columns. The cupola and top were designed
by Thomas Harrison, and were added just after the building opened.
Harrison also designed Skerton Bridge. The total cost of the building
was £2,054 13s 7d, including a £20 bonus that Mr Dickinson, one
of the builders, had thought due to him.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".