Clayton Le Moors
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Clayton Le Moors memories
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Coopers and Booths
My Great, Great Great Grandfather, William Booth, used to push a cart up and down the streets of Clayton le Moors with his son John Booth, selling shellfish. He was known as 'Muscle Bill' and his son, 'Oyster Jack'. (This is actually a memory passed down from my ancestors to my 3rd cousin.)
They lived at 'Old Sparth House' from around 1895 onwards. William died in 1900 age 79. Most of the family married and brought their children up in Clayton le Moors. A few emigrated abroad. Robert Booth to Australia, Ellen Booth married Charles Battersby and moved to Canada. John Booth's daughter Luciana Booth married William Cooper from Great Harwood at All Saints, and my Grandfather, Robert Cooper was born ...read more here
Contributed by DONNA COOPER
Lancashire memories
Coopers and Booths
My Great, Great Great Grandfather, William Booth, used to push a cart up and down the streets of Clayton le Moors with his son John Booth, selling shellfish. He was known as 'Muscle Bill' and his son, 'Oyster Jack'. (This is actually a memory passed down from my ancestors to my 3rd cousin.)
They lived at 'Old Sparth House' from around 1895 onwards. William died in 1900 age 79. Most of the family married and brought their children up in Clayton le Moors. A few emigrated abroad. Robert Booth to Australia, Ellen Booth married Charles Battersby and moved to Canada. John Booth's daughter Luciana Booth married William Cooper from Great Harwood at All Saints, and my Grandfather, Robert Cooper was born ...read more here
A memory of Clayton Le Moors contributed by DONNA COOPER
Accrington as I recall
We moved to Accrington fom Whalley 10th December 1941. I remember it because Syd Ashmeed and his band was broadcasting that day and Ronnie Brooks was the drummer and I wanted to listen to the broadcast but as we were moving I missed it. I started work at Howard & Bulloughs in April 1941 as an apprentice mechanic in the milling room, but after a year I asked for a transfer to the tool room. George Crawshaw was the foreman. I was in Bulloughs Home Guard and did our guard duty in Fountain St. We lived in Buxton St and one Saturday night a shop window was broken on Charter St, I believe that happened for three Saturday nights, when they ...read more here
A memory of Accrington contributed by Trevor Williams
Mrs Kilshaw
I remember the creaky stairs and stodgy atmosphere of Central Preparatory so well, even though it's now 44 years since I last heard the sterling tones of Mrs Kilshaw resounding through the classroom.
Miss Backhouse was my personal favourite: a gentle, caring teacher who had the patience others seemed to lack.
I still live locally (Ossy) and occasionally wander round the area where the noble old building that began my experiences of the world of British education once stood. So much has changed of the Accrington I knew then and having moved back after 35 years away - in Scotland and Cheshire - it's nice to know that others have soothing and happy memories of Central Prep.
A memory of Accrington contributed by Karol Gajewski
Extracts From Clayton Le Moors & Lancashire books
The church was originally a plain rectangular building with a tower, but by 1852 galleries were added to provide more seating
and an organ was installed. The most spectacular change took place in 1882, when the chancel and east window were added.
An extract from from"Accrington Old and New Photographic Memories".
The 19th-century cotton industry brought great wealth to Clayton, some of which went to build the church. It has one of the finest Victorian interiors in the area and contains some exquisitely carved marble. Shown here is the font, carried on the heads of four angels, who each bear a medallion; the one on the left depicting ears of wheat.
An extract from from"Lancashire - A Second Selection Photographic Memories".
This grand manor house, now a hotel, was built during the Elizabethan period, but was considerably extended by its Victorian occupants. For a long time even Lancashire was not safe from bands of Scottish raiding parties, and ‘Dunkenhalgh’ is said to derive from the name of one of the brigands who settled in the area.
An extract from from"Lancashire - A Second Selection Photographic Memories".
The building is on the
site of previous houses
owned by the Rishton
family; Dunkenhalgh then
passed to the Walmsleys,
until Catherine Walmsley
married Robert the seventh
Lord Petre. It continued in
the Petre family, staunch
Catholics, until 1939.
An extract from from"Accrington Old and New Photographic Memories".
St Mary’s Roman Catholic
Church on Burnley Road,
Clayton-le-Moors dated
back to 1819, and predated
all other Roman Catholic
churches in the area.
The church was a plain
rectangular structure, of no
real architectural merit. The
new church on Devonshire
Drive was opened in
September 1959; the old
church was demolished in
the same year.
An extract from from"Accrington Old and New Photographic Memories".