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Living In Harold Hill
I lived in 71 Hailsham Road off of Straight Road till we sadly moved in the April of 1971. I always remember; the Grammar School, at the back of Appleby Drive we used to have Saturday fetes with the small steam train ride, ...Read more
A memory of Harold Hill in 1967 by
Memories Of Padiham
I was born in 1947 to Betsy and Leonard Mcgough on Railway Terrace, which I believe is now called Russell Terrace. My mother worked in the cotton mills all her life and retired in a mill at Read. We moved to Moor Lane where we ...Read more
A memory of Whalley in 1957 by
Evacuation
I lived in Brook Bungalow between Latchingdon and Althorne during the war years and visited grandparents there into the 50's. I remember Barbie and Alec, the Mathams and the Plumbs (who ran the local garage) with such affection and ...Read more
A memory of Latchingdon in 1940 by
Bryan Sharples & Sarah "Sally" Mc Kinnell
I am trying to make contact with any close family or friends of the late Bryan Sharples and his late wife Sarah (Sally) McKinnell. Bryan was born in Blackburn in 1932, served with the 11th Hussars in the Regimental ...Read more
A memory of Blackburn by
St Johns Schhol And Church
Happy memories of Blackburn attended St Johns School 1930s lived in Garnett Street no longer there I was married at St Johns Church 1952 and lived on Queens Rd till 1975 when we moved to Sale Cheshire. My Father was a ...Read more
A memory of Blackburn in 1946 by
Grandparents
The Blackburn family. Hi, my grandparents lived in Forcett all of their married life and brought up four children there. Milly was the oldest, she was my gran's daughter from her first marriage, the surname was Swann. Then she met and ...Read more
A memory of Forcett in 1960 by
The Birds Nest South Harrow
I moved to Harrow in 1969, and started DJ'ing in October 1969. I had a residency at The Shaftesbury every Thursday, Friday, Sunday lunchtime and then later in the evening (pubs closed at 3pm in those days). It was ...Read more
A memory of South Harrow in 1971 by
The Grange
The Grange always brings back memories of our life growing up in the village. We are the Blackburn family and we lived at 11 Curtis Drive. We used to play in the field at the front of the big house as we called it but if 'madame ...Read more
A memory of Brompton-on-Swale by
Shop And Post Office
My parents, Fred and Marjorie Reeks bought the shop and Post Office from Mrs Britton in 1947 and they owned the business till about 1985. In the mid sixties Fred got about 100,000 daffodil bulbs from a market garden in Darlington ...Read more
A memory of Eppleby by
The Place Where I Was Born
I was born in Whalley, in the second cottage opposite the Catholic Church in the Sands, in December 1924. Next door to us was Mr Sutton who was well known around Whalley for his ice cream. He used to stand outside the abbey ...Read more
A memory of Whalley in 1920 by
Captions
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This wonderful nostalgic photograph shows steam engine 'black 5', the work-horse of the LMS region, heading south with non-corridor stock on a local, probably to Bamber Bridge and on to Blackburn.
These were the last buildings on the western edge of the town, on the Exeter road, where Foundry House is now flats and the metal-working premises of J I Blackburn Limited and an entire new housing
Those who did their business here would know where to find the Blackburn cotton manufacturers, or the Oldham cotton spinners, as well as cotton brokers, agents for the Indian and Chinese markets, and machinery
Blackburn possessed six parks, but Corporation Park was the one laid out on clear Victorian lines.
Here we have a grand view of the railway arches heading out of Whalley.The railway arrived in the village in 1850, and the 600yd- long viaduct carries the Blackburn to Clitheroe line at a height of
Blackburn possessed six parks, but Corporation Park was the one laid out on clear Victorian lines.
Stanhill is a small community on one of the B-roads between Oswaldtwistle and Blackburn.
The newer part of Langho, about a mile distant, has developed since the road to Clitheroe from Blackburn was made.
It has since been renovated with a new roof and turned into a lovely one-bedroom residence by the owner, Mr Blackburn, who lives in the cottage just visible to the right of the mill.
Clement Houghton lost the use of his other leg at an early age, and travelling from Blackburn with a friend, he skated at Brungerley in the winter of 1895.
Listed by Edward Baines in his Gazetteer with the many villages of Blackburn Hundred, Downham is 3 miles north-east of Clitheroe.
Notice the stage-coach arch next to the bay windows: the stage coaches to Preston and Blackburn left from here.
It was built as a Chapel of Ease to Blackburn.
William Brooks and Roger Cunliffe had been running a bank in Blackburn for some years before they took up this establishment.
Salford was an area of Blackburn; the name derives from 'salix (willow tree) ford'.
