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Lancaster, Grammar School and Roman Catholic Church 1891
Lancaster, Grammar School and Roman Catholic Church 1891 Ref: 28601
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 Lancaster, County Asylum 1891 (ref: 28606) |
Year: 1958
chapel
Each week, as a 15 - 16 year-old, I used to cycle from Morecambe on a Sunday morning for an organ lesson at the chapel of the Moor Hospital. It was uphill there and downhill home. My teacher was the organist there, also Director of Music at LRGS, and my lesson started after the Sunday morning service. As I progressed I was allowed to play the recesssional after the service. Every few years I come back to look at that magnificant building (the Annex) and think of all those thousands of people, staff and patients, who kept that sanctuary alive - a city within a city - which care within the community cannot now hope to replicate. I regret its demise and the safe haven it provided for so many people. Posted: 24/04/2008 22:34 by Ian Gerrard |
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 Lancaster, the Entrance to Williamson Park c1955 (ref: L10059) |
Year: 1880s
Williamson Park Gate House
The 1881 census shows my grandfather (John Smart) and his family living in this house. He was the Landscape Gardener of the park. Last edited: 15/10/2006 21:35 by Hazel Veitch |
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 Morecambe, Winter Gardens c1955 (ref: M94057) |
Year: 1955
morecambe musical festival A memory of Morecambe, Lancashire From 1952 to 1959, aged 9 to 16 and at Morecambe Grammar School, I played the piano in the solo classes at the Morecambe Musical Festival - a premier event in the calendar of the Winter Gardens. It brought in thousands of people during the week; choirs, brass bands and soloists from Scotland, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Wales etc. with all their supporters, as well as local talent. If I won my classes during the week I would appear in the grand finals on the Saturday evening and I still have all the certificates to prove it! Very daunting for a young person in that magnificent theatre and on that enormous stage. Every few years I come back and remember the Winter Gardens as it used to be in those halcyon days of the 50's. How it has all changed, especially as I had a tour round the old theatre a couple of years ago and saw how much decay had set in. I went on to Manchester University to gain a music degree and still regard the Winter Gardens as a very large stepping stone on the way to my career as a professional pianist. The Winter Gardens - and Ballroom - will never be the same again, as neither will Morecambe itself, but I hope the limited restoration project for the theatre is successful. It deserves a new lease of life since I think it was once the largest theatre between London and Scotland with a capacity of 7000 if you included the Ballroom, on the right of your photograph, sadly now demolished. May it always be remembered for what it was and for all the famous (and not-so-famous!) stars who trod the boards there. Posted: 29/11/2007 20:49 by Ian Gerrard |
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1958-1964 A memory of Quernmore, Lancashire New Added 6 days ago My name is Steve Whitfield, we lived in Whitecroft (on the Crossroads) and that is where I grew up. Went most of my time to boarding school with my two brothers, dating back to the 1960s. My father was employed as Chief Accountant for Jas. Williamson in Lancaster (remember them?) and I have so many wonderful memories as a child, cycling down to Condor Bottom, or catching moles with dear old Mr Fox. John Cousins exercised his racehorses on the roads up to Clougha, past Bolland's farm, and that's where I learnt to ride. As a boy, in my school holidays, trips to Manchester and Haydock in the horsebox were dreams come true, the locals in Bowerham used to applaud us when we left the yard fully laden with our equine superstars! Unbelievable now in this day and age. I now train racehorses in Germany, but still have wonderful memories of my youth, the rain, the sheep, the Border Collies (Ken, he was brilliant), the abundant blackberries, Bees Bros, Mrs Yeats our neighbour, the Bollands and the Foxes, wonderful people and wonderful days. Yes I love Quernmore, Quernmore will never leave my heart, an oasis in my distant memory when time gets rough, but a part of my soul. Love you lots! Last edited: 27/11/2008 11:01 by First Name Last Name |
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 Hest Bank, Marine Drive c1960 (ref: H453015) |
Year: 1960
Hest Bank /Bolton le Sands A memory of Hest Bank, Lancashire I lived with my grandparents in Bolton le Sands. I used to cycle to Morecambe most mornings, to J. W. Blands, painters and decorators, where I was apprenticed, hail rain and snow. I knew every inch of the coast road, the top of Hest Bank hill and down past the Cinderella Home, past the golf links and Happy Mount Park. Lovely memories now .. Last edited: 14/04/2008 12:57 by John Wilson |
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