Thornton-Cleveleys
Thornton-Cleveleys photos (10 available)
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Map of Lancashire
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Thornton-Cleveleys books (13 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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Thornton-Cleveleys memories
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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.
Contributed by Rosemary E Gradwell
Lancashire memories
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
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
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
Extracts From Thornton-Cleveleys & Lancashire books
Marsh Mill, built by Bold Fleetwood Hesketh, is now the only working windmill in the Fylde. Alongside the mill was T Kirkham’s blacksmith’s shop; horses were brought here through Atkinson’s fields. In the yard was also Jack Breckell’s wheelwright’s shop. The six-storey mill is 110 feet high, and the wooden sails are each 36 feet long. In the 1950s repair work was done, and in 1979 a new oak beam on which the sails rested was hoisted into place. Marsh Mill has been painted white, and its brilliant red sails spin round while visitors view the interior.
An extract from from"The Fylde Photographic Memories".
Situated at Four Lane Ends cross roads and bisecting Victoria Road, this has proved an excellent focal point. The local repertory group regularly put on plays. The County Library, opened by Sir Percy Meadon when Mr Raymond Irwin was County Librarian, continues to give excellent service. It was inevitable that two years ago (2002) a decision was made to bring this popular venue up to standard.
An extract from from"The Fylde Photographic Memories".
Recent restoration has beautified St John’s, the parish church, which has long played an important role in the Fylde. It was the only church before 1840. Whereas Marton and South Fylde worshippers had to bring their dead to St Chad’s, the parish church of Poulton, people from the new town of Fleetwood had to come to Meadows Avenue, which used to be called Parr’s Lane; the punishment stocks stood by the church gate.
An extract from from"The Fylde Photographic Memories".
The rural nature of Thornton Cleveleys away from the coast persisted. On the right is one of the old farmsteads. There were six fords over the river Wyre: one was at Buck’s Lane, Little Thornton, leading to Hambleton and Banks Farm. These fords were intended to connect agricultural communities on each side of the river, for they had common interests. Thornton amalgamated with Cleveleys in May 1927.
An extract from from"The Fylde Photographic Memories".
As rural areas were eaten into by the great building boom, pleasant tree-lined areas of mature countryside were more appreciated. Holmes in Thornton was a settled agricultural community for generations before Thornton amalgamated with Cleveleys in 1927. This part of Thornton was connected with Stanah (Stayna) by Holmes Brook. In the 17th century the wooden bridge became so dangerous that Lancaster Quarter Sessions ordered that ‘the inhabitants of Thorneton of the east side of Thorneton bridge and the inhabitants of Stayno shall repair that bridge before Michaelmas under a penalty of ten pounds’. Name changes influenced by dialect were many over the centuries.
An extract from from"The Fylde Photographic Memories".