Ormskirk
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Ormskirk books (21 available)
- 5 photos on Ormskirk appear in 3 Frith books - View photos of Ormskirk
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Ormskirk memories
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Ormskirk Orphanage 1950-1955
I was put into Ormskirk Orphanage at the age of 2 around 1952 and wonder if anyone has a photo of this place (inside or out) or any information, as I am doing a family history.
Margaret
Contributed by Margarita Cook
Family ties
I lived in Ormskirk, 33 Thompson Ave, for 10 years till my family moved to Canterbury. I started school at Greeby Hill then just before I was going to Wigan Road we moved. My friends were the Hankins, Tony Dayley. It was a great place to live with so many families in the same boat as us, not a lot of money but a lot of great memories.
Contributed by michael dobson
Ormskirk parish church
I remember going to this church to watch my baby brothers being christened in the late 60's early 70's and I always remember someone telling me that the church was really old and would still be standing when I a very old lady - at such a very tender age then I didn't believe them! I grew up listening to the church bells chime every quarter hour and would hold my breath to count the hourly chimes in bed at night. How I miss hearing them!
Contributed by estelle hall
GREAT MEMORIES
Going back to days when the smimming pool opened at the junior school, Mr Henderson was the head and Mr Hesketh deputy. My teacher was Mr English. We also had a great soccer team that I played in. I live in New Zealand in a place called Henderson.
Contributed by Mark Ratcliffe
Starting at school
I clearly remember starting at Greetby Hill C of E School in 1960. The headmistress' name was Miss Cobb. I then moved up into the Junior School in 1962, taught in succession by Miss Greenwood, Mr Tyndsley and Mr Hesketh. The headmaster was a benevolent man by the name of Mr Henderson. I can recall the steam trains running up and down the line parallel to the school grounds, and watching the prototype TSR2 test flying overhead in 1964. Very happy memories!
Contributed by Phil Angus
The old school
I remember the old school on Wigan Road, it was called Ormskirk Cross Hall High School. It has now been demolished and replaced with a newer building.
Contributed by jean ellison
Extracts From Ormskirk & Lancashire books
Looking more like two churches than one, Ormskirk’s parish church is unique in the north for having both a tower and spire. Despite Henry VIII’s break with Rome, much of Lancashire remained staunchly Catholic and stones from the dismantled Augustinian priory at Burscough were used to add the tower in which the bells that once called the monks to prayer were hung.
An extract from from"Lancashire - A Second Selection Photographic Memories".
By the 18th century, Ormskirk was already an important agricultural and market town, but with the arrival of the railway in 1849 it rapidly developed as an attractive residential area for Liverpool’s prosperous businessmen. With the new houses came the park, a place for gentle exercise or relaxation and a favourite walk for nannies and their prams.
An extract from from"Lancashire - A Second Selection Photographic Memories".
Standing at the cross-roads in the centre of the town is the clock
tower, which was erected by public subscription in 1876. It marks the
site of the old market cross, and contains a bell dating from 1684 that
once served as the town’s fire alarm.
An extract from from"Lancashire Living Memories".
Granted a charter in 1286, Ormskirk was an important market and industrial
centre. Later, brought within easy travelling distance of Liverpool by the railway,
wealthy businessmen built comfortable houses away from the city’s grime. The
park was an essential element of Victorian town development, and here is centred
on a memorial to those killed in the South African wars.
An extract from from"Lancashire Living Memories".
This is the corner of St Anne’s Road West and Garden
Street (right) before it was fully surfaced. The rather
solitary buildings are now part of the urban sprawl
that characterises every shopping centre.
An extract from from"Lytham St Anne's Town and City Memories".