Trough Of Bowland
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Seedhill Cottage
The house in the foreground is known as Seedhill Cottage. My family lived there from the mid sixties to late seventies. My father was the gamekeeper for the local shoot and water baliff for Whitewell area. My mother was the school cook at Dunsop Bridge. My sister and brother attended school in Dunsop. The family moved to Hellifield when the shoot closed in 1979. I've been back a number of times and it is still a beautiful place.
A memory of Whitewell contributed by Ian Idiens
Happy Memories of Slaidburn
My first introduction to Slaidburn was in the middle of the very cold and snowy winter of 1949-50. I had just driven down from Inverness to this charming Lancashire village with my Dad. It had been a long, cold drive in a 1938 Morris roadster car, loaded with luggage and a big tool box. I was to begin a new job working for Cementation Ltd where my father also worked. The contract was to drill a tunnel from Ellerbeck to supply water to Manchester. I was to continue my apprenticeship as a heavy duty mechanic. We arrived at 23 Church Street Slaidburn late in the day, tired and hungry. Our landlady, Mrs. Waterworth welcomed us with open arms and a nourishing ...read more here
A memory of Slaidburn contributed by Denman Lalonde
Grandparents
My grandparents live just off shot, and have lived there for as long as I can remember!
My grandad has sadly passed away but is still nearby, he is buried in the church yard! I remember when I first met my husband, and we went to the "fenick" for a drink while my grannie got dinner ready - my grandad was a real character! I used to go mushroom picking in the fields, and walking across the fields to the river, I don't think I ever liked the cows though!! I saw my first birth there too, a cow in the field opposite, something I have never forgotten. What ever happened to local dialect? I would listen to the strange way ...read more here
A memory of Claughton contributed by lindsay barton
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
Extracts From Trough Of Bowland & Lancashire books
This beautiful hilly country, now owned by the Duke of Westminster, was part of Old Fylde when it stretched as far as Preston. Wild and bleak country, the Trough was the road trodden by the women condemned as Lancashire witches on their way to Lancaster Castle.
An extract from from"The Fylde Photographic Memories".
Sykes Farm is typical of the isolated farms in this area. Another was Birkenhead Farm, where James Baines, woollen draper and benefactor to education in the Fylde, was born. The Quakers favoured this remote area, and founded a Meeting House at Newton-in-Bowland. In this century, walks around Stocks Reservoir (‘the Jewel of the Forest of Bowland’) are increasingly popular; the area has 70 per cent of the UK breeding population of hen harriers.
An extract from from"The Fylde Photographic Memories".
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".
The castle grounds were purchased from Lord Montagu and passed to the people of Clitheroe in 1920. Essential work
on the grounds cost £15,000, which was found by fund raising. Pride of place goes to the war memorial in the Garden
of Remembrance; Clitheroe men who died in the Boer War are not forgotten. The keep and the grounds are impressive,
especially when they are floodlit on special occasions.
An extract from from"Clitheroe Photographic Memories".
Over 150 years ago, Church
Street was the main way out of
the town to Chatburn. Dates
can be seen on house frontages
- one drainpipe bears the date
1757. The old road wound
through Pimlico, but the 1826
turnpike road was straight,
passing Clitheroe Hospital,
once the workhouse. Spring
water in cans at 5 old pence was
hawked about the streets by one
enterprising native before piped
water came. Thirsty navvies
would appreciate that, and
perhaps even John Macadam
himself. He was an advisor in
the construction of the road.
An extract from from"Clitheroe Photographic Memories".