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Vacation
Cannot remember to much of this vacation as I was only 4 years old at the time. But as I was growing up Mum used to talk a lot about this holiday and only recently I was looking through some old snap shots and I came across one taken sitting on a wall with my Dad I presume it was the Promanade in Heysham. Mum always wrote on the back of the photo saying the place they were taken.
Contributed by Brenda Vanderwert
Heysham Towers
Morecambe Bay Holiday Camp, aka Heysham Towers, in the early sixties as a teenager. The Towers were owned by the Holdens, I especially remember Derek and Jean. We were roused by the 'phantom buglar' and didn't have a minute to spare until 'Goodnight Campers'. We danced to Norman Robinson's band, and Jack Winston playing the organ. The activities were organised by Reg Kerr and Jimmy MacHugh. We had some good times in the 'Nip Inn'. Sometimes we would go into the village to drink Mrs Holmes' nettle beer or have delicious knickerbocker glories at the tea gardens opposite St Peter's Church. Such happy times, never forgotten.
Sadly, the towers are gone, but the memory lingers on.
Contributed by kathleen wilson
childhood 60s memeoreis
I have fond memories of Heysham as a child, during the 1960s, drinking nettle beer with my brother and sisters. My auntie Hilda and uncle Billy lived in Ulverston, and my uncle worked at the ICI works, I think it was Half Moon Bay, we used to go and sit on the rocks while my uncle used to bring us our dinner which I presume he got from the works. I've not been back to Heysham since being a child. I'm now 57 years old and will be going back in the summer maybe its all changed now but nevertheless I'll go to see and relive some of my childhood. PS I remember once going aboard a destroyer to have a ...read more here
Contributed by john midgley
Lancashire memories
Vacation
Cannot remember to much of this vacation as I was only 4 years old at the time. But as I was growing up Mum used to talk a lot about this holiday and only recently I was looking through some old snap shots and I came across one taken sitting on a wall with my Dad I presume it was the Promanade in Heysham. Mum always wrote on the back of the photo saying the place they were taken.
A memory of Heysham contributed by Brenda Vanderwert
Extracts From Heysham & Lancashire books
St Patrick himself is said to have been shipwrecked on the head; years later, monks came from his monastic foundation in Ireland and built this chapel in his memory. It dates from Saxon times, the 8th century, and one of the reasons it had stood so long in such an exposed spot is the mortar. It is ground-up sea shells, heated and mixed with boiling water to give a cement-like substance. It is the only example left in England of a single- cell Saxon chapel. Our Victorian ladies posing by the chapel add charm to our photograph—which apart from them could have been taken today.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".
The origins of the parish church of St Peter on Heysham Head are lost in the mists of time. The earliest recorded date is 1080, when it was noted as an old Saxon church. There was probably an earlier church on this site, built by the Angles. Quite a bit of the Saxon stonework remains today, even though the church has been added to and enlarged. The original part is at the centre. Note the lack of standing gravestones in the graveyard around the church.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".
These six ancient graves hewn from solid rock close to the chapel of St Patrick lie on the impressive Heysham headland. St Patrick is said to have landed here after crossing the Irish Sea on a millstone. The chapel is one of the oldest in the country; the remains of its walls are 2ft 6ins thick, bonded with immensely strong mortar made by burning sea-shells – this method was used by the Romans.
An extract from from"Lancashire Villages Photographic Memories".
Quiet Heysham was once most famous for nettle beer and selling teas to trippers from its ancient cottages. The chapel on the headland and the stone coffins remain, but the ambience has changed. In 1904, two thousand workmen began digging a deep water harbour which took an army of Irish navvies seven years to complete. Heysham, once connected with Druids, has now become an important terminal for Irish sea traffic.
An extract from from"Lancashire Villages Photographic Memories".
We are looking at the leeward side from the entrance to the church- yard. Note how many standing headstones there are now, only four years after picture 21072. We can clearly see the 1864 extension, the lower part to the right with its own small entrance. This end of the church is in three parts, as we can tell by the three apex roofs. Today, when we visit this area around the altar and choir, we will find a wonderful small intimate part of the church cut off from the chancel by an oak screen, believed to have come from Cockersands Abbey.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".