Places
36 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Lancaster, Lancashire
- Preston, Lancashire
- Ormskirk, Lancashire
- Blackpool, Lancashire
- Heysham, Lancashire
- Fleetwood, Lancashire
- Blackburn, Lancashire
- Clitheroe, Lancashire
- Burnley, Lancashire
- Morecambe, Lancashire
- Accrington, Lancashire
- Nelson, Lancashire
- Earby, Lancashire
- Chorley, Lancashire
- Carnforth, Lancashire
- Darwen, Lancashire
- Longridge, Lancashire
- Barnoldswick, Lancashire
- Thornton, Lancashire
- Colne, Lancashire
- Bacup, Lancashire
- Freckleton, Lancashire
- Cleveleys, Lancashire
- Poulton-Le-Fylde, Lancashire
- Adlington, Lancashire
- Fulwood, Lancashire
- Whitworth, Lancashire
- Haslingden, Lancashire
- Clayton-Le-Moors, Lancashire
- Barrowford, Lancashire
- Skelmersdale, Lancashire
- Bamber Bridge, Lancashire
- Great Harwood, Lancashire
- Padiham, Lancashire
- Church, Lancashire
- Kirkham, Lancashire
Photos
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Maps
3,155 maps found.
Books
22 books found. Showing results 25 to 22.
Memories
131 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.
Western Road
As a child I remember visiting my grandmother in Western Road (Florence Allaway) nee Smith; she always made the most wonderful bread pudding. She brought up several children on her own after her marriage breakup, all credit to her .My ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham in 1957 by
Waterloo Road
I was born in Burslem and lived on Waterloo Road across from Macintyres pottery from 1949 until 1957 when we moved to Lancashire. Macintyres had a clock tower and we would check it in the morning before leaving for school. I began school at ...Read more
A memory of Burslem by
War Years
Ths is the memory of my cousin, Audrey, aged 79. We were talking yesterday and she told me how, with her mother, she had travelled from Lancashire to see her father who was stationed in the area. They had to get permission to travel ...Read more
A memory of Dibden Purlieu in 1943 by
Ww! History
100 years to the date 11.10.1915-11.10.2015 William Clarke (DOB about 1874) Eliza Ann Street,Patricroft Wife, Mary Hanna (nee Edwards DOB about 1871) six children. Employed, Naysmyth and Wilson, Bridgewater Foundry, Patricoft as ...Read more
A memory of Eccles by
Tracing Any Descendents Of Sarah And David Davies
I've just recently started to build my family tree and my family on my maternal side comes from Garnant, South Wales. My mother's name was Olive Nora Dicks, she was born in Garnant in 1924, she had ...Read more
A memory of Garnant by
Time At St Cuthbert's
Hi I went to St Cuthbert's from 1964 to 1969 my time there was ok but i was not one of the best student, i was in trouble a lot for fighting. I was known then as Billy Carr or Jeckal at that time i went straight into the army ...Read more
A memory of Cleator Moor by
The Best Market In Lancashire
Bury market was famous and its modern version, though not as interesting, still is. We used to go to the market and buy one of Thompson's black puddings, piping hot in a grease-proof paper, The man would split it and put ...Read more
A memory of Bury in 1940 by
The Plantations
Well not just for the 1930's but for twenty years after as well. Memories come flooding back - not just for this picture but for Wigan itself. I was born there in 1931 - in my grandparents home 38, Dicconson Street - a section no ...Read more
A memory of Wigan in 1930 by
The Pellys Of Nether Compton
In August 2006 my daughter and I visited Nether Compton in a Trace Your Ancestors search. My father, the son of an Eliza Pelly here in Lancashire, always told the tale of two brothers, Charles and Henry Pelly, who ...Read more
A memory of Nether Compton by
Captions
171 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.
Standing high in the Pennines on Yorkshire's border with Lancashire, Ripponden has been an important settlement on the River Ryburn, but made its name from the wool trade in the 19th century and before
Beyond the village rises Wetherlam, the most northerly of the Coniston Fells, and over to the left, hidden by cloud, Lancashire's highest peak, the Old Man.
Walsden is a former woollen town in the Calder Gap between Yorkshire and Lancashire, just to the south of Todmorden.
The 1906 Baedecker Guide states that 'in July and August especially, Douglas and its neighbourhood are practically the playground for the operatives of Lancashire and Yorkshire, but at other seasons and
Urmston is noted for being the birthplace in 1708 of John Collier, Lancashire's first dialect poet.
By this date Southport's reliance on the holiday trade was already declining; its location made it an attractive proposition as a residential area not only for Lancashire businessmen and their families
New Brighton was originally conceived as 'The sea-bathing rendezvous par excellence of the Lancashire people of note', but things soon went awry.
Away from the bright lights and entertainments of its main resorts, Lancashire's coast has many other fine stretches of expansive beach.
The building no longer serves its original purpose, and Central Lancashire University now uses it as a conference centre.
Much of Lancashire was affected by the Civil Wars, and Warrington, an important crossing on the Mersey and chosen by the Royalist, Lord Derby for his headquarters, saw considerable action.
The promenade guesthouses and private hotels enjoy superb views across the bay to Lancashire over Sands and the southern Lake District.
When the railway came to Grange-over-Sands in 1857 it signalled the town's rapid expansion as a seaside resort for visitors from the industrial mill towns of Lancashire.
Wild and bleak country, the Trough was the road trodden by the women condemned as Lancashire witches on their way to Lancaster Castle.
Thought to have been used since the Bronze Age, the track through the valley was one of several routes followed by packhorse drivers, who carried goods across the moorland hills between Lancashire
This viaduct was constructed of local stone in 1867 for the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company; the line opened in 1870 and closed in the 1960s.
Lancashire landowners since the 15th century, the family achieved prominence in 1589 when Richard Shuttleworth, a successful London lawyer, was knighted and appointed Chief Justice of Chester.
The point from which this photograph was taken, Seed Hill, was at that time in Yorkshire, but looks over the border, defined here by the Hodder, across a corner of Lancashire.
By the 1870s, many Lancashire cotton workers received three day's unpaid holiday a year, which was tacked onto a weekend to give a five-day break.
The River Lune has never suffered the amount of industrial pollution that its southern Lancashire sisters the Mersey and the Ribble have had.
The coming of the railway to Grange-over-Sands in 1857 signalled the town's rapid expansion as a seaside resort for visitors from the industrial mill towns of Lancashire.
A Victorian guidebook, published in 1895, described Morecambe thus: 'Morecambe is much frequented by trippers from the busy towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire, for whose recreation are provided abundant
On Sunday 28 June, as Lancashire enjoyed the hottest day of the year, an event was taking place that would set Europe aflame.
There was at one time another line down to Rawtenstall, joining what is now the East Lancashire Preserved Railway.
Many wealthy business families from industrial Lancashire settled here as it became a fashionable seaside resort in the middle years of the 19th century.
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