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 145 to 22.
Memories
131 memories found. Showing results 61 to 70.
I Was Born In Edmonton, North London
I started life at the North Middlesex Hospital in January 1940. The 2nd World War causing damage all over. I lived with my Mum and Dad at St Mary's Gardens in Lower Edmonton. During the Battle of Britain, our house ...Read more
A memory of Edmonton by
I Was Born In Thornaby
My name is Valerie (Connet) Acuff. I was born in 1940 at 24 Langley Ave. which was the home of my mother's sister, Nan Powell and her husband, Lol. My parents were John and Betty Connet. My mother was formerly Betty ...Read more
A memory of Thornaby-on-Tees in 1940 by
Ike Smith''s Hardware And Bicycle Store
My grandfather, Isaac Smith, had a hardware and bicycle shop on these premises, known universally as the 'Tudor Cottages', from some time towards the close of WW1 to the late 1930s. The premises were owned by ...Read more
A memory of Warrington in 1920 by
Is This The School I Attended In 1944 45?
During World War Two I was evacuated from London to various locations three times, the last of these was Bury, in Lancashire. My older brother and I stayed with two families sharing a house at 16 Swallow Drive ...Read more
A memory of Bury by
James Halstead Nutter
James Halstead Nutter was a Headmaster of Cockfield School, in the early 20thC, certainly after WW1. He was my Grandmother's cousin. I wonder if anyone alive today has any memories of him. If so, I would love to hear from ...Read more
A memory of Hamsterley in 1930 by
Joseph Buckley Photographer
Joseph Buckley my great great grandfather, was a photographer, known as Owd Ab from the Ben Brierley character. In Volume 1 of Ben Brierley's “Lancashire Stories”, is another short tale “A "Strike" Adventure or The ...Read more
A memory of Daisy Nook by
Just Earby
I was born in Earby in April 1949 at 20 Grove St. This Grove St was the original Grove St. It was demolished, I don't know when, and a new Grove Street was built, again not sure when. My grandparents lived in Dale St, my Uncle Doug at 44 ...Read more
A memory of Earby in 1956 by
Just Found
I was born there in Aug 1947 and it would appear, like many others, to unwed mums and therefore adopted out. For most of my life I had only an abreviated copy of my birth certificate which came via the orpanage in Liverpool. Given that ...Read more
A memory of Rossett in 1947 by
Ken & Margaret Davis.
I remember Smithybridge with great liking and fondness. I was fortunate to have my sister and her husband living there, Ken Davis being an ex police officer who decided to retire there. My visits to them from Tasmania were ...Read more
A memory of Smithy Bridge in 2002 by
Captions
171 captions found. Showing results 145 to 168.
Runcorn was also a coal port, handling traffic from Lancashire and Staffordshire pits.
Worst still was the loss of Carter's café, which a 1930s guidebook described as 'one of the finest in the South West Lancashire district (with) well appointed Luncheon and Tea Rooms, Ball Room etc', where
He held directorships with the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, the Manchester & County Bank, and the Thames & Mersey Insurance Co, but is remembered for his active role in winning shorter factory working
New sections of waterway were linked to the River Mersey to enable ocean-going vessels to reach the new inland port of Manchester and the neighbouring Lancashire cotton towns.
Lindale is close to the River Winster, the old Lancashire and Westmorland border.
Many refer to this village as the most perfect in Lancashire, with its village green next to the church, and old inn.
In 1844, railway surveyors came to this agricultural village with the aim of linking two main lines to provide a route from West Yorkshire to Lancashire and Cumbria.
The building has been added to and rebuilt, and is now part of the University of Central Lancashire.
Rising on Lamb Hill Fell, the river now runs into the Stock Reservoir and then resumes its wandering in North Lancashire.
Now very much part of Lancashire, the village of Slaidburn was in Yorkshire at the time of our photograph.
There were many Lancashire towns going through the same revitalisation, but in the frenzy of change many of the grand Victorian buildings were lost.
Belthorn was one of the last villages in Lancashire to honour Collop Monday, and Poulton-le-Fylde was the last to answer the call of the Pancake Bell.
This is a wonderfully patriotic photograph of the monument to Lancashire lad Sir Robert Peel, standing in the park named after him.
In this huge hall, cotton merchants from all over Lancashire did their bartering, and many a fortune was made or lost.
Road, river and rail run within twenty yards of Thrutch (a dialect Lancashire word synonymous with great effort).
The latest adornment to Lowther Gardens is a statue of a Lytham shrimper sculpted by Colin Spoforth, a Lancashire man.
Amongst the companies operating services to Belfast were the IOMSPCo, the Barrow Steam Navigation Co, controlled by the Midland Railway with sailings from Barrow and Morecambe, and a joint Lancashire
Many refer to this village as the most perfect in Lancashire; with its village green next to the church, and an old inn across the road, it is just how we all imagine an old English village ought to look
It was built soon after the American Civil War - at that time the industry prospered, since Lancashire was starved of cotton.
In 1792, a company was formed by Lancaster merchants; they saw a canal as a way of getting cheap coal from Wigan and getting other goods out to the towns in the heart of Lancashire, and to the growing
The relics of St Cuthbert are alleged to have rested in twelve places, in what is now Lancashire, during the 9th century.
Her restoration transformed the grounds into one of Lancashire's best gardens, and she also became Mayor of the City of Lancaster in 1938.
To the right is the site of the Lancashire and Yorkshire line Market Place railway station, which was here from 1867 to 1930.
OPENED in 1904, Caldecott Park was designed by Mr Edward Thomas of Aughton, Lancashire, who won £20 for his plan (a triangular park with a large clump of trees in the centre) in a newspaper competition
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