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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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Accrington as I recall
We moved to Accrington fom Whalley 10th December 1941. I remember it because Syd Ashmeed and his band was broadcasting that day and Ronnie Brooks was the drummer and I wanted to listen to the broadcast but as we were moving I missed it. I started work at Howard & Bulloughs in April 1941 as an apprentice mechanic in the milling room, but after a year I asked for a transfer to the tool room. George Crawshaw was the foreman. I was in Bulloughs Home Guard and did our guard duty in Fountain St. We lived in Buxton St and one Saturday night a shop window was broken on Charter St, I believe that happened for three Saturday nights, when they ...read more here
A memory of Accrington contributed by Trevor Williams
Mrs Kilshaw
I remember the creaky stairs and stodgy atmosphere of Central Preparatory so well, even though it's now 44 years since I last heard the sterling tones of Mrs Kilshaw resounding through the classroom.
Miss Backhouse was my personal favourite: a gentle, caring teacher who had the patience others seemed to lack.
I still live locally (Ossy) and occasionally wander round the area where the noble old building that began my experiences of the world of British education once stood. So much has changed of the Accrington I knew then and having moved back after 35 years away - in Scotland and Cheshire - it's nice to know that others have soothing and happy memories of Central Prep.
A memory of Accrington contributed by Karol Gajewski
Sacred Heart Church
This is Sacred Heart RC Church, in Accrington. It has now been demolished. I have many great memories and some not so great from this sacred place. I felt like I had to share this info, with you when I saw this picture. When the church was being knocked down there was a last service mass held and it was a ticket only event. I couldn't go on that evening and therefore missed it.
The church holds many memories for all of my family. My mum and dad were married at the church as were her seven sisters. Every week in Sunday best marching with my Nanna picking up all of my cousins along the way, to 11 o'clock mass. My ...read more here
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Central Prep School
I was a pupil at this school until about 1960 when I went to the technical school. I have fond memories of the headmistress and her blue-rinse hair do. Whilst I was there Miss Cauldfield left and a Miss Hackwood (hope this is correct) took over. To a child's eyes it all seemed to change.
A memory of Accrington contributed by David Clayton
Extracts From Stanhill & Lancashire books
Peel Fold, situated on the slope of a hill a short distance away from the main road, was originally known as Oldham’s Cross.
Robert Peele, great-grandfather of the first baronet, purchased the property towards the end of the 17th century. The great
residences which the Peels built in Hyndburn have been swept away, but this Tudor cottage, now lovingly restored, remains
as a monument to one of Lancashire’s great families.
An extract from from"Accrington Old and New Photographic Memories".
Stanhill is a small community on one of the B-roads between
Oswaldtwistle and Blackburn. It was in this building in 1764 that
James Hargreaves lived when he invented the Spinning Jenny. Because
of his new invention and the new mechanisation it brought about, many
people were forced out of their rural homes to work in the factories, and
he was forced out of this house and the area.Apart from the ice cream
sign and the newspaper advertising board (‘Hollywood stars revolt’), the
scene could have been anything up to 50 years earlier.There are a lot
of these small villages in this hilly agricultural area.
An extract from from"Heart of Lancashire Pocket Album".
James Hargreaves was
connected with Robert
Peel through helping him
to introduce mechanical
processes at Brookside
Mill, so it was appropriate
that the James Hargreaves
memorial should be
unveiled in July 1952 by
Earl Peel of Hyning Hall,
Carnforth. The inscribed
plaque on the cottage
told the story of how
Hargreaves was compelled
to leave Stanhill because
of persecution by local
handloom weavers who
feared for their livelihoods.
Hargreaves moved to
Nottingham, and died there
in comparative obscurity in
April 1778.
An extract from from"Accrington Old and New Photographic Memories".
This photograph shows how near the hills and open countryside are to the
towns around here. Oswaldtwistle Moor, to the south of the town, is a love-
ly unspoilt area of outstanding beauty. ‘The ‘twist’, or meeting of rivers,
where Oswald lives’ is how the town gets its name.
An extract from from"Heart of Lancashire Pocket Album".
Stanhill Post Office was the home of James Hargreaves, the inventor in 1764 of the Spinning Jenny. His invention made an
enormous contribution to the textile industry. He was born in Stanhill in 1720 and married and settled there; he became a
handloom weaver.
An extract from from"Accrington Old and New Photographic Memories".