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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.
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
Schoolboy memories
Born at the Risedale Maternity Home in 1933 we first lived in James Street. I think it was 1937 when we moved to Clevelands Avenue in the new Beacon Hill estate. Barrow was bombed in May 1941 but it was the older part of the town that suffered the most damage. I recall, as a boy, going round the streets looking for shrapnel from the AA guns I suppose. It didn't half tear holes in our pockets. Of course it was the shipyard that was the main target, but we could also see the flames from Liverpool on tha horizon.
In 1945 I started at Barrow Grammar school under Mr SM Price the headmaster. Very ...read more here
A memory of Barrow contributed by David Norman
Extracts From West Bradford & Lancashire books
West Bradford gets its name from being west of the broad, shallow ford of the River Ribble. Again, we see a large painted board; this one proclaims that James Leeming was proprietor of the Three Millstones Inn on the right of our photograph. Eaves Hall, next to the village, is now a country club for the Civil Service Motoring Association. The cottages on the left were a Mission Room before the church of St Catherine was built in 1898.
An extract from from"Heart of Lancashire Photographic Memories".
West Bradford gets its name from being west of the broad, shallow ford of
the River Ribble. Again, we see a large painted board; this one proclaims
that James Leeming was proprietor of the Three Millstones Inn on the right
of our photograph. Eaves Hall, next to the village, is now a country club
for the Civil Service Motoring Association.The cottages on the left were a
Mission Room before the church of St Catherine was built in 1898.
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".
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".