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My Childhood In Houghton Regis.
My name is Daniel (Danny) Cronin, the youngest of 5 and the only boy of Harry 'H' and Ann Cronin. My life began on the 27th of November 1970. My first place of residence was Recreation Road where I have broken ...Read more
A memory of Houghton Regis in 1970 by
Memories Of My Family
I was not born when my family lived in Kirkby Green but I have heard my mother tell a few stories of life there. She had a pet trout who lived in the Beck which ran past the back garden. She called him Peter and would go ...Read more
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My Childhood In Burton In The 50's And 60's
I was born in the village in 1949, in an end terrace No.1 Woodview. It was down a small road in the centre of the village and at the top, I believe at one time there was a timber yard/sawmill. The ...Read more
A memory of Burton in Lonsdale by
Childhood Memories
My father, Bertram Whittingham was a native of Hemsworth, born 1892 and I am the remaining son of the family born August 1926 in a small miner's cottage located at No. 7 North View. My father was a coal miner, working at ...Read more
A memory of Hemsworth in 1930 by
The War Years And Later
I lived in Annesley Woodhouse from 1936-1950, when I was conscripted into the R.A.F. for national service. I attended Kirkby Woodhouse School. The Owston's owned the post office, and the Chancellor's, succeeded ...Read more
A memory of Annesley Woodhouse in 1930 by
Oak Hotel Maple Road 1955 1962
My name is Peter West and I started my life and spent the first 7 important years at the Oak. My dad was the landlord and and his father before him up until 1962 when he retired and I was whisked away in tears to go to our ...Read more
A memory of Surbiton by
Methodist Church
In 1954 atthe age of eleven I joined the south Featherstone school choir, our music teacher was called Ronald Nuttall, who came from South Kirkby, I can remember two occasions when we came to Kirby ,one was to give a concert for ...Read more
A memory of South Kirkby by
Great Place To Grow Up
My dad, Adam Pagan, was a great dad who loved his town and told me loads of Maryport history about links with the mutiny on the bounty. I loved going on the shore and the fair coming. When I was young I lived in Kirkby St, ...Read more
A memory of Maryport in 1950 by
Casterton Hall Homicide 1868
Hi, My name is Robyn Arkinstall and I live in Australia. I am very interested and doing research into the Arkinstall surname, worldwide. On Friday December 11, 1868 a James/John? Arkinstall was employed at ...Read more
A memory of Kirkby Lonsdale by
Lime Street Station
In 1964 I started teaching at Brookfield School, Kirkby. and stayed "in digs"in Aigburth, Liverpool. For several years Lime Street Station was my arrival and departure point as I travelled between Liverpool and Swansea. Lime ...Read more
A memory of Liverpool in 1965 by
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The Butter Cross in the centre of Kirkby Malzeard, north west of Ripon, was the traditional venue for the village's famous Sword Dance, now rarely performed.
Chapels is a hamlet at the northern end of Kirkby.
Kirkby Lonsdale's famous Devil's Bridge over the River Lune traditionally gets its name because it was built by the Devil, who claimed the soul of the first being to cross it.
The village is on the Scandale Beck near Ravenstonedale on the northern flanks of the Howgill Fells, in an area rich in prehistory and mercifully bypassed by the A685 road to Kirkby Stephen
During the 18th century, the village was a halt for stage coaches travelling between Lancaster and Kirkby Lonsdale.
Apart from the Baker's Arms on Barkby Road corner and an extended bank, the village's main shopping area is now but a memory.
The newly-cut village green at South Kirkby, near Hemsworth, gives a neat, urban appearance to this former West Yorkshire mining village.
The tower of the parish church dominates this view of Beckside, a small hamlet on the slopes of the Furness Fells above the village of Kirkby-in-Furness on the Duddon Estuary.
The pretty little village of Barbon, near Kirkby Lonsdale, lies in the hills above the Lune Valley beneath Thorn Moor, on the minor road through Barbondale to Dent.
Cowan Bridge lies two miles from Kirkby Lonsdale.
We are in the centre of the linear village of Long Preston, which is bisected by the busy A65 Skipton to Kirkby Lonsdale road.
Another view of Kirkby's Market Place taken nearly 20 years after photograph No 59539, and showing few changes apart from the motor vehicles; these include the charabanc which plied between Lancaster
The road through Greenodd is part of the 1820 turnpike route from Lancaster to Kirkby Ireleth, so Greenodd was then a very busy place.
Kirkby Lonsdale's famous Devil's Bridge over the River Lune traditionally gets its name because it was built by the Devil, who claimed the soul of the first being to cross it.
'Kirkby', from which West Kirby derives its name, was established by a small group of Scandinavian settlers in the 10th century.
It is fortunate to be bypassed by the A685 road to Kirkby Stephen.
This is the scene looking back down Kirkby's Main Street towards the Royal Hotel, which can just be seen in the distance.
The church was built in the Gothic style in 1859-60 of Kirkby slate with red sandstone dressings.
The signs leave no doubt that in 1960 the inn was owned by Dutton's Brewery (of Blackburn), and that John Kirkby was the licensee.
It grew rapidly in the Victorian era, being on a strategic turnpike road from Kendal to Kirkby Stephen.
The sinking of the Fitzwilliam and the South Kirkby pits in the 1870s led to a huge rise in the population; the town was rebuilt with hundreds of back-to-back terraced houses.
The road through Greenodd is part of the 1820 turnpike route from Lancaster to Kirkby Ireleth, so in the coaching era Greenodd was a very busy place.
