Cockerham
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- 6 photos on Cockerham appear in 3 Frith books - View photos of Cockerham
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Roundhouse
I went to what we used to call the school on the hill. I lived in Knott End and sometimes when we were rich we'd go to school on the bus, but if not it was your two feet that got you there, anyway my memory relates to the roundhouse, it was a toffee shop when we were kids, things you could get for a penny and when you had tuppence, well I guess you were rich, anyway when I had bus money for coming home after school and depending on the weather, if it was nice I would give in to temptation and nip into the roundhouse. Trying to make a selection from all the toffees and treats was a ...read more here
A memory of Preesall contributed by Eric Butler
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
Crabbing
Iam not sure how close Iam on the date, however when we where kids, me and my friends would spend most of the day in the summer holidays with string and safety pin, stick some muscle meat on it from the muscle bed from the other side of the jetty, and then we'd tie a stone to the string and then lower this down the side of the jetty to catch an unexpecting crab, you had to be very careful pulling it up from the water as sometimes the crab would fall back in the water, then you'd have to start again, but we would have great fun watching the crabs running all over the place, especially when the tourists where ...read more here
A memory of Knott End-On-Sea contributed by Eric Butler
Extracts From Cockerham & Lancashire books
A beam from the year of the Spanish Armada was found in the remains of the old church. The tall tower is all that remains of the 17th-century church, for the main part was rebuilt in the 19th century. Records show that one vicar buried eleven plague victims - he himself died from plague the next month. At St Michael's church one privilege the vicar had was to collect salmon from the baulk on the River Cocker on the first tide after the full moon. On the seashore at nearby Pilling ancient gravestones were found.
An extract from from"Lancashire Villages Photographic Memories".
On the right we can see a finger post pointing to the church. As the village was destroyed by fire in the 17th century, the village we see today was rebuilt after the fire some distance from the church. The sign on the gable end reads: 'The Parish Church of St Michael AD1134 The Revd D E F Ogden B A'.
An extract from from"Lancashire Villages Photographic Memories".
The village’s name means ‘a settlement by the River Cocker’. The village has rows of sandstone cottages and a number of farms. It was self-sufficient in the 19th century. There were two inns, the Manor and the Plough, where cock-fighting took place until it was outlawed. On Main Street were the blacksmith, the wheelwright, the fishmonger, the butcher and the post office, which was run by Mr R Ireland in his general stores (right).
An extract from from"Lancashire Villages Photographic Memories".
Originally clustered
around the church to
the south, the hamlet
was destroyed by a fire
in the 17th century and
the Manor Inn, built in
1871, is the focus of the
‘new’ village. Although
quiet-looking here, the
village was known for
its boisterous sporting
events, with such
things as cock fights,
greyhound coursing
and horseracing being
organised.
An extract from from"Lancashire Living Memories".
Cockerham, the village, and Cockersands, the Abbey, both take their
names from the River Cocker, which runs between them. Cockerham
today is not actually on the river, which runs across the large Cockerham
Moss. In the Domesday Book it is written as ‘Cocreham’. The original
village was burnt down in the 1600s and had to be completely rebuilt.
The villagers left the burnt-out village and moved on to the main road,
around the Manor Inn, seen here in our photograph.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".