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Lancaster Town Walk Guide
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Heart of Lancashire Pocket Album
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Grindleton memories
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Summer Holidays
I remember in the 1950s my sister Annette and I used to spend some time on a farm owned by Mr Thomas Holgate who was a friend of the family and really enjoyed those times. The farm was called Townley House and my dad used to help with the hay making. I also used to go there occasionally to do jobs when I worked for Roland Ford plasterers and slaters in the 1960s. I now live in Australia.
Contributed by Christopher Rung
Lancashire memories
Summer Holidays
I remember in the 1950s my sister Annette and I used to spend some time on a farm owned by Mr Thomas Holgate who was a friend of the family and really enjoyed those times. The farm was called Townley House and my dad used to help with the hay making. I also used to go there occasionally to do jobs when I worked for Roland Ford plasterers and slaters in the 1960s. I now live in Australia.
A memory of Grindleton contributed by Christopher Rung
Paddling pool, Castle field
I remember this pool vividly! One day I was riding my tricyle round the outside of the pool, which wasn't filled with water at the time. Unfortunately I happened to fall in and I cut my hand on a broken glass. After 34 years I still have a scar to prove it.
A memory of Clitheroe contributed by Tina Gough
My Mum's hairdressing salon
Right on the end of this barn, hidden from view was a small irregular building with it's own door. It had been a small butchers shop some time before my Mum and Dad bought it as a hairdressing salon for my mum to use as a little business.
It had no heating, just two yellow sinks and chairs, a couple of work stations and a telephone table where the phone, appointment book and till sat.
Surprisingly the business did really well. My Dad was the local 'bobby' and so knew everyone in the area. I remember helping out in the school holidays and hearing an old tractor pull up outside - a farmer, hair full of hay, ...read more here
A memory of Bolton By Bowland contributed by gail armstrong
Extracts From Grindleton & Lancashire books
The post office is on the left with its sign outside. At the time of this photograph, the population of the village had almost halved: local cottage industries had declined, and the arrival of the new mills in the larger towns meant that people flocked there to live and work.
An extract from from"Heart of Lancashire Photographic Memories".
The post office is on the left with its sign outside. At the time of
this photograph, the population of the village had almost halved:
local cottage industries had declined, and the arrival of the new
mills in the larger towns meant that people flocked there to live and work.
An extract from from"Heart of Lancashire Pocket Album".
Grindleton is a classic case of village development: here ancient roads cross, and ribbon building took place along those roads. Many of the old houses were weaver’s cottages, built in a time when hand-loom weaving was the major industry in the area. The road from Sawley to Waddington crossed the back road from Clitheroe to Slaidburn here, so the cloth produced from local wool could be taken to the markets and fairs on packhorses. We are looking up from the bottom of the village. ‘H Smalley, Grocer & General Dealer, licensed to sell tobacco and cigars’, says the sign on the left. The assistant peeps out of the shop, and there are two other ladies sitting in the first floor window, keeping an eye on the goings-on.
An extract from from"Heart of Lancashire Photographic Memories".
Grindleton is a classic case of village development: here ancient roads
cross, and ribbon building took place along those roads. Many of the old
houses were weaver’s cottages, built in a time when hand-loom weaving
was the major industry in the area. The road from Sawley to
Waddington crossed the back road from Clitheroe to Slaidburn here, so
the cloth produced from local wool could be taken to the markets and
fairs on packhorses.We are looking up from the bottom of the village.
‘H Smalley, Grocer & General Dealer, licensed to sell tobacco and
cigars’, says the sign on the left.
An extract from from"Heart of Lancashire Pocket Album".
More rooftops, a passing
steam train (they were
being replaced by diesel-
powered locomotives
at this time) and the
sweep of the park
express progress. The
bandstand has arrived.
From the bandstand in
1948 sweets were handed
out to the children
after sports. They were
provided by former
residents who had gone
to live abroad but still
craved news of the town.
An extract from from"Clitheroe Photographic Memories".