Poulton-Le-Fylde
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Map of Lancashire
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Poulton-Le-Fylde books (14 available)
Lancaster Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Lytham St Anne's Town and City Memories
Paperback
Heart of Lancashire Pocket Album
Paperback
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Walking to Skippool
When I was young we lived a short distance from here. A Sunday afternoon walk usually involved "going top see the boats"
Contributed by Alan Fryer
Lancashire memories
Walking to Skippool
When I was young we lived a short distance from here. A Sunday afternoon walk usually involved "going top see the boats"
A memory of Poulton-Le-Fylde contributed by Alan Fryer
Little Nellie
Hi anyone remember "Little Nellie" (husband Joe) and their daughter Annie and grand daughter Margaret, from Sultan Street in Accrington. We used to travel down on the same bus with them every Friday night. In those days, we got the bus from the bottom of Water Street/Melbourne Street (now Eastgate). They had a caravan on Thornfield for years and years. When you passed the shop and turned onto the site, their caravan was way down the bottom, tucked in a corner. Little Nellie was extremely small and always seemed to wear mens wide legged trousers, with turn ups!
June
A memory of Staining contributed by june huntingdon
1960 onwards
"Oh Happy Days". My first view of Staining was the 9th June 1960. I remember it well. I seem to remember the Staining bus did NOT go into the village, but stopped across from the old Plough pub. My gran had bought a caravan there, just up Chain Lane, on Mrs Smiths caravan site. Mr and Mrs Smith lived in the farmhouse, their 4 daughters lived nearby in the two red brick semis which Nana Smith had had built. (Auntie Fred'a has now been altered beyond all recognition). I got to know them all over the years. "Auntie Irene" Openshaw, with husband Norman and sons Charles, Dennis and Philip - their house was next to the caravan site and known as ...read more here
A memory of Staining contributed by june huntingdon
Extracts From Poulton-Le-Fylde & Lancashire books
The two townships of Poulton-le-Fylde and Hambleton, linked by the bridge, were villages when the bridge was first built to serve agricultural communities. Previously farmers had to ford the river Wyre at what was called Aldwath. Poulton was dubbed ‘the metropolis of the Fylde’; being so centrally placed, it was the busiest market town, and the bridge was sorely needed. The bridge across the Wyre to replace fords was built in 1864 and cost over £13,000, but people objected to the paying of tolls; however, it was not until July 1993 that a fine new toll-free bridge was opened. Soon after this, the old bridge was demolished. During floods the river could rise up to road level on the bridge.
An extract from from"The Fylde Photographic Memories".
At this point, the Market Place adjoins Blackpool Old Road. The shop on that corner was one of the most well-known in all Fylde: Richards the ironmonger’s stocked everything that a farmer might need, plus a wide range of domestic articles. The premises next door on Blackpool Old Road were the Stocks Press and the Old England confectioners, both now demolished.
An extract from from"The Fylde Photographic Memories".
Queen’s Square leading to Lower Green, where the maypole was danced around in spring, has seen many changes. Because of busy traffic the memorial was moved into the Market Place. Poulton Laundry has gone, and the Methodist church (far right) has been pulled down—the new church is on Queensway.
An extract from from"The Fylde Photographic Memories".
On the extreme right is the house once occupied by Judge Parry, who wrote some charming children’s books about Fleetwood. On the left are convalescent cotton mill workers; but as mills closed all over Lancashire, the building closed as a convalescent home and was bought by Wyre Borough Council to be their Civic Centre—it had served as a teacher training college.
An extract from from"The Fylde Photographic 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".