Carnforth
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Carnforth books (13 available)
Lancaster Town Walk Guide
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Lytham St Anne's Town and City Memories
Paperback
Heart of Lancashire Pocket Album
Paperback
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Carnforth Lodge Lancaster Road
As a child in the 1960’s and 70’s I went several times with my family to visit Mrs Esther Pomfret (Auntie Ettie to us; she was a relation of my father's) at Carnforth Lodge, Lancaster Road. I don't think this is shown in the photo.
The first time I went there I was fascinated by the old house. It had a musty smell which I remember distinctly. The very low ceilinged kitchen had a big old table in the centre. From there a narrow passageway led to the rest of the house; on one side a sort of “snug” and dining area with a big bay window and window seat looking over the garden, and across the passage (overlooking ...read more here
Contributed by Isabel Yeo
Lancashire memories
Carnforth Lodge Lancaster Road
As a child in the 1960’s and 70’s I went several times with my family to visit Mrs Esther Pomfret (Auntie Ettie to us; she was a relation of my father's) at Carnforth Lodge, Lancaster Road. I don't think this is shown in the photo.
The first time I went there I was fascinated by the old house. It had a musty smell which I remember distinctly. The very low ceilinged kitchen had a big old table in the centre. From there a narrow passageway led to the rest of the house; on one side a sort of “snug” and dining area with a big bay window and window seat looking over the garden, and across the passage (overlooking ...read more here
A memory of Carnforth contributed by Isabel Yeo
Family ties
My grandfather was Titus Escolme. He lived in Laurel Bank in his later years, before that he lived at Clifford Hall and also the farm down Dykes Lane. My father Reuben was the only son of Titus. I had two sisters, Eileen and Olive. I was the youngest daughter of Reuben. My mother was Evelyn (Tyldesley) from Barrow in Furness, who was in service from the age of 13 to Seriah Butler, and looked after their daughter Dorothy until she met and married my father.
Titus died when I was 1 year old. I spent some time at Yealand School with a lot of evacuees in 1944, while my parents moved to Leeds, and enjoyed almost every school holiday afterwards at ...read more here
A memory of Yealand Conyers contributed by avril grounds
My Early Years
On the 2nd September 1952 I was born at Manor Farm. I lived there with my parents, my maternal grandfather and two older brothers. I know my grandmother was alive when I was born but, unfortunately died soon after. My grandfather was called Seriah Butler and was the tenant of Manor Farm and when my mother Dorothy Butler married Albert Shorrock at the village church my father worked on the farm, in fact we all did.
I remember travelling down the Dykes to bring the cattle home for milking. I would sit on the handlebars of my Dads bike to help with the cows.
There was an orchard around the farmhouse and I can remember my mother making damsom jam ...read more here
A memory of Yealand Conyers contributed by Sue Tomlinson
Extracts From Carnforth & Lancashire books
Carnforth, six miles north of
Lancaster, has a place in history
as a railway town. The Furness
& Midland Railway and the
London & North Western
Railway opened a station at
Carnforth between them in 1880,
and it was always an important
junction. Wolstencroft the chemist
boasts that they serve General
Drugs and Patent Medicines,
Horse & Cattle Medicines
and Thorleys Cattle Spice, as
well as being Oil & Colour
Merchants. They were also agents
for the Caledonian Fire & Life
Insurance and Ocean, Railway
& General Accident. They sold
sleeping powders, cures for influ-
enza and butter colour. As well
as all that, they even advertised
‘Teeth Carefully Extracted’—
this is reassuringly etched into
the glass door.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".
The Lancaster Canal was never connected to the main canal system. Its rugged stone bridges and its proximity to the Pennines make it a most picturesque line. Carnforth is towards the northern end; the top section was abandoned after the M6 motorway was built. Here we see a barge loaded down with hay, with the two horses taking a break as the photographer creates his picture.
An extract from from"Canals and Waterways".
The Lancaster Canal was never connected to the main canal system. Its rugged stone bridges and its proximity to the Pennines make it a most picturesque line. Carnforth is towards the northern end; the top section was abandoned after the M6 motorway was built. Here we see a barge loaded down with hay, with the two horses taking a break as the photographer creates his picture.
An extract from from"50 Classics - Canals".
The Lancaster Canal was never connected to the main canal system. Its rugged stone bridges and its proximity to the Pennines make it a most picturesque line. Carnforth is towards the northern end; the top section was abandoned after the M6 motorway was built. Here we see typical barge propulsion, with the animals taking a break as the photographer creates his picture.
An extract from from"Canals and Waterways".
The southern part of Morecambe was always referred to as
the West End. Here we see the exclusive part of Morecambe.
Our view takes in Werwick’s Revolving Tower and shows what
working-class people did for their week’s holiday: they sat and
relaxed and took in the sea air.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".