Newby Bridge
Newby Bridge photos (18 available)
Newby Bridge maps (2 available)
Map of Cumbria
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Newby Bridge books (7 available)
Kendal - A History and Celebration
Hardback
So You Think You Know? Kendal
Hardback
Penrith Photographic Memories
Hardback
- 8 photos on Newby Bridge appear in 5 Frith books - View photos of Newby Bridge
- Read extracts and see photos from these books on Newby Bridge and Cumbria
Newby Bridge memories
Read and share memories of Newby Bridge and Cumbria inspired by Frith photos
Staveley village
I would like to share with your readers that my father Alban Crossley was born in Staveley and his mother Ethel Crossley (nee Bateman) worked in the bobbin mill in Staveley. Unfortunately my grandfather Michael Crossley died as a result of a motorbike accident. My father died in 1983 age 59years old.
We lived in Staveley in 1976 and I really liked the area and have been to visit it on a few occasions over the years. I wonder does any of your readers have any photos of any of my relatives as I have very little information on them apart from my father photographed in the book on Staveley school winning a race. Looking ...read more here
Contributed by Ann Brennan
John Wilson
My grandfather worked as wheelwright for Thomas Wren, ajoining the Swan Hotel. Can any relitive of Thomas Wren please give me any more information? His name was John Hartley Wilson of Lakeside.
My E Mail is johnwilson45@tiscali.co.uk THANK YOU
Ken Wilson
Contributed by john wilson
Childrens names.
The children in the boat are Leslie (boy), Harry (his brother), Noel (his sister) Wren. His other sister Millie Wren is sitting on the riverbank. The other child is a neighbour. For many years Millie Wren was a teacher at Lightburn School, Ulverston.
Contributed by Jean Wren
Cumbria memories
Staveley village
I would like to share with your readers that my father Alban Crossley was born in Staveley and his mother Ethel Crossley (nee Bateman) worked in the bobbin mill in Staveley. Unfortunately my grandfather Michael Crossley died as a result of a motorbike accident. My father died in 1983 age 59years old.
We lived in Staveley in 1976 and I really liked the area and have been to visit it on a few occasions over the years. I wonder does any of your readers have any photos of any of my relatives as I have very little information on them apart from my father photographed in the book on Staveley school winning a race. Looking ...read more here
A memory of Newby Bridge contributed by Ann Brennan
Extracts From Newby Bridge & Cumbria books
Much of the large area
included in the centre
is woodland. Here
the ‘camp’ title is well
justified by the neatly
erected tents, with
two people folding
ground sheets (left).
An extract from from"Windermere Photographic Memories".
Two lads enjoy the view from the hillside above Newby Bridge, the small village at the southern end of Windermere,
with the low south Lakeland hills in the background. The village takes its name from the bridge, visible in the
middle distance of the photograph, which crosses the River Leven here.
An extract from from"Cumbria Photographic Memories".
A family group of children enjoy a boating trip on the River Leven at Newby Bridge, at the southern end of Lake Windermere. In the background is the 16th-century five-arched stone bridge which gave the village its name. Note the fashionable straw hats, and the wrought iron frame protecting the wooden signpost by the lady on the left.
An extract from from"English Villages".
A family picnic by the five-arched bridge originally built in the 16th century over the River Leven. Note the then-
fashionable straw hats, and the wrought iron frame protecting the wooden signpost by the lady on the left.
An extract from from"Cumbria Photographic Memories".
The locomotive comes tender first into Newby Bridge station, where it is awaited by the station-master. The Ulverston to Lakeside line was built in 1869, but closed and then reopened again in 1965 as a tourist railway. The station buildings have gone, but the line is still open as part of the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway.
An extract from from"50 Classics - Railways".