Hambleton
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Lancaster Town Walk Guide
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Lytham St Anne's Town and City Memories
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Heart of Lancashire Pocket Album
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Shovels Inn - 1952 to 1971
My grandparents, John & Betty Whiteside, were Landlord & Landlady of The Shovels Inn 1952-1971. I was born in 1955 and clearly remeber the pub as it was then, before they tore down walls! The old men of the village taught me how to play dominoes in one of the little rooms that used to be off the main bar. As you walked through the door there used to be an open fire on the right with the dartboard above it. On the photograph, on the extreme right, just outlined against the white building, you can see the petrol pump which was used to fill the charabancs that used to call at the pub on day trips to the Over Wyre ...read more here
Contributed by Lynda James
Lancashire memories
Shovels Inn - 1952 to 1971
My grandparents, John & Betty Whiteside, were Landlord & Landlady of The Shovels Inn 1952-1971. I was born in 1955 and clearly remeber the pub as it was then, before they tore down walls! The old men of the village taught me how to play dominoes in one of the little rooms that used to be off the main bar. As you walked through the door there used to be an open fire on the right with the dartboard above it. On the photograph, on the extreme right, just outlined against the white building, you can see the petrol pump which was used to fill the charabancs that used to call at the pub on day trips to the Over Wyre ...read more here
A memory of Hambleton contributed by Lynda James
Walking to Skippool
When I was young we lived a short distance from here. A Sunday afternoon walk usually involved "going top see the boats"
A memory of Poulton-Le-Fylde contributed by Alan Fryer
Meadows Avenue (just round the corner)
Well actually it is any dates up to & beyond 1960. Born in 1951, I recognise the view of how the avenue looked before all the bungalows were built on the west side. We used to walk to Cleveleys through the 'paddy fields', full of buttercups & mayflowers. When we reached Rowlands Farm (Rowlands Lane now) we'd risk our lives cimbing in the tumbledown farmhouse & make dens. Great days.
A memory of Thornton-Cleveleys contributed by Rosemary E Gradwell
Extracts From Hambleton & Lancashire books
Of the old inns of the Fylde, the Shovels, once called the Malt Shovels, is one of the oldest in Over Wyre. It began as an alehouse. The present building dates from 1760, but there have been additions; the bay windows, for example, were put in around my mother’s birthday in October 1888. Like most inns in the Fylde, the Shovels brewed its own beer, and a malt kiln was installed—hence Kiln Lane.
An extract from from"The Fylde Photographic Memories".
The creek on the River Wyre is now a modern marina, but once, like Skippool, it was an ancient port where ships from Russia called and oranges were unloaded from the West Indies. Next to the hotel (centre) were warehouses dating from 1824, where flax, cotton and guano manure were stored; but these were pulled down in 1965. In Hambleton churchyard is buried the body of an unknown sailor washed up by the River Wyre.
An extract from from"The Fylde Photographic Memories".
W J Seddon was a grocer, a newsagent and other things besides, a very useful shop in a rural area, especially as every time a villager went into Poulton, the Shard Bridge toll had to be paid. Centuries ago when the Shard Bridge Inn still stood, Hugh Parke was the local farmer. Using a flat-bottomed rowing boat, he would ferry the Hambleton villagers over the Wyre for one penny.
An extract from from"The Fylde Photographic Memories".
Mr F E Weatherill ran the Meadow Café, a favourite calling place for cyclists. With the pink-washed cottage alongside, there was no mistaking it. The Shard Bridge Hotel was another stopping off place. Here the Hambleton hookings were available until over-culling ended the supply. Hambleton once had a salt industry, and the name Saltcote Bridge is carved into a remnant of the 1688 bridge.
An extract from from"The Fylde Photographic Memories".
This is the corner of St Anne’s Road West and Garden
Street (right) before it was fully surfaced. The rather
solitary buildings are now part of the urban sprawl
that characterises every shopping centre.
An extract from from"Lytham St Anne's Town and City Memories".