Places
36 places found.
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- 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 73 to 22.
Memories
131 memories found. Showing results 31 to 40.
Doddlebugs And V2s Plus!
I moved to Lymington Road, Dagenham, in 1939, across the road from the school. At first I attended Green Lane School - same as Dudley Moor. I even had the same piano teacher. Miss Hoggard. But she gave up on me. In the early ...Read more
A memory of Dagenham by
Eccles Family History
My great-grandfather, Joseph Eccles, built Bilsborrow Hall. He owned a number of cotton mills in Preston and played cricket for Lancashire. I have just started to look into our family history and will hopefully be able to ...Read more
A memory of Bilsborrow by
Early Years!
I lived in Wigton for the first 8 years of my life, so 1955 is a mid point! I have happy memories of the town. We lived in West Avenue when it was known as 'the avenue' - an unmade up road and for years I thought that if a road was called ...Read more
A memory of Wigton in 1955 by
Family Roots And Residal Local English Branches Of The Tree
My great-great grandfather and grandmother emigrated to the U.S. from Belmont in the late 1840's or early 1850. Their names are Thomas Spencer and Nancy McJunkin. ...Read more
A memory of Belmont in 1860 by
Family Connections.
The gentleman with the scythe over his shoulder was my grandfather. His name was Joseph Jackson, born in 1849 at Bootle in Cumberland. He spent most of his life as a tenant farmer, first at Canleton Farm near Egremont also in ...Read more
A memory of Greenodd in 1920 by
Farnworth C Of E School In The 1940s
I started school in September 1945 at Farnworth C of E School in Pit Lane. When I started school my dad worked at the Co Op as "first hand" in various shops in Widnes. Our headmaster was Mr. Turton and he was an ...Read more
A memory of Widnes by
Ferry Hut By Neville Lang
When I went to Holy Trinity School in the 1950.s the school class was49 children 1 teacher. when we had a different subject we just changed books. one of the highlights of school was going to ferry hut where we had a drawing ...Read more
A memory of Runcorn by
Fond Memories
My family moved to Bracknell in 1961 from Lancashire. I can remember some of the shops in Crossway. At the top end by the High Street was a toyshop, next door was a gents clothes shop nearly opposite that was Miller Morris and Brooker a ...Read more
A memory of Bracknell by
Forest Walks
As from Easter 1956 my family and lived in Loughton, Essex, having moved there from Preston, Lancashire. One of our favourite walks was through Epping Forest which lies between Loughton and Chingford to this old picturesque church ...Read more
A memory of Chingford in 1956 by
Frances Best's Family, Princess Road, Kingskerswell, Devon
I was stationed at the Royal Signals camp at Denbury in 1952 and whilst there I met a wonderful young lady whose name was Frances Best. She lived in Kingskerswell and I fell in love with ...Read more
A memory of Kingskerswell in 1952 by
Captions
171 captions found. Showing results 73 to 96.
Close by in 1970, on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the first Charter, celebrations on Saturday 7 August included musical rides and spectacular events staged by the Mounted Branch of the Lancashire
Roebucks are the males of the roe deer, whose herds once roamed this attractive landscape along the western fringe of the Lancashire hills.
Requisitioned by the National Fire Service during WWII, it was eventually bought for the Lancashire Brigade in 1949.
Had the Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway had its way, their main line would have run from Warrington to Sutton-on-Sea.
In 1868 Manchester and Liverpool were the only Lancashire authorities with medical officers of health, and as late as 1876 Wigan still lacked a uniform system for disposing of or treating sewage.
The Co-Operative movement began just over the Mersey, in Lancashire, in the 1840s and rapidly spread throughout the industrial heartlands of northern England.
The railway line to Huncoat and Burnley crosses the road here.There was at one time another line down to Rawtenstall, joining what is now the East Lancashire Preserved Railway.As well as having three
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
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
Its strong tower is 12th-century, and was used to shelter villagers when the Scots raided Lancashire.
On the left is a fountain commemorating Queen Victoria, and on the right is a monument to Warrington soldiers of the South Lancashire Regiment killed in the Boer War.
It was here in 1847 that Queen Victoria first set foot in Lancashire, when she arrived at the harbour having travelled from Scotland by sea.
In August 1874, Derbyshire County Cricket Club played Lancashire at Chesterfield, using Chesterfield FC's facilities at Saltergate recreation ground.
With the return of peace, people could again enjoy seaside holidays and once more flocked to the Lancashire resorts.
Fluctuating Lancashire and Yorkshire boundaries have confused and annoyed villagers.
Some said that Burnley did not need parks, as the Pennines of South Lancashire are only ten minutes away, and some lovely countryside surrounds the town.
Until the railway arrived, only 35 years before this photograph was taken, Grange-over-Sands was little more than a fishing village, looking out across the Kent estuary to the rest of Lancashire.
Although born in London, the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spencer was related to a Lancashire family and is believed to have spent time with them here in this house.
Before clean air acts and the decline of the cotton industry, the only time people could see the Lancashire hills across the Mersey Basin was during Wakes week.
This is Chorley's main street, the A6, Lancashire's main north to south road; it used to get very busy in the summer.
Besides having good window displays, the shop would place blackboards outside: 'Danish prize dairy butter, Lancashire and Cheddar cheese, noted teas and coffees and unequalled Wiltshire and Danish bacon
Tom Rowe, the Lancashire cheese factor, lived at York House in Bilsborrow.
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
Although its style is medieval, this church, dedicated to St John the Evangelist, was built in 1885 by Sir Gilbert Greenall, a Lancashire MP and founder of the famous brewing company that bears his
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