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Grosvenor Road And Urmston, Always A Place In My Heart.
I lived on Grosvenor Road, Urmston - the allotment end - from 1965 to late 1969 age 3 to nearly 8 years of age with my 2 brothers and parents (we then moved to Blackburn). My daughter has recently ...Read more
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1965
1964 and my parents announced to us kids that we were going to move to the countryside from Great Bar in Birmingham where we were all living at my grandmothers house My Father had died back when I was seven and mother had eventually ...Read more
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Newarthill 1950/60s Tosh And I Part 2
Like everyone else growing up in Newarthill, life wasn’t easy, as times were tough in the 50s and 60s and I suppose in many ways it is today. But back then people really had nothing, but one thing I do remember - ...Read more
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My Holiday In A Manor House
I went to fornethy residential school when I was five and nine years old and I was very happy thare I loved the long walks through the woods and walking down the stoney brae to the burn to paddle our feet ...Read more
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Growing Up
My father came back from war in 1946 I was born in 1948 in Salisbury my father rented a flint cottage in the middle of the woods at Beach’s barn (they were demolished many years ago ) my father was born in Everleigh the family were from ...Read more
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Newarthill 1950/60s Tosh And I
Every now and then I reminisce and take a trip down memory lane, of my childhood days growing up in Newarthill on Burnside Rd. I remember Tosh McGarry and I going to Father Gillan's jumble sale and buying an old fox fur ...Read more
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Horrible Place
We were there from 69 - 72. I say we. Me & my four sisters, Denise, Pauline, Joan, Isable & me June HASTIE. Anderson & Dunlop were vile. Scrubbing the floors until they were gleeming. We used to do that when we got home from ...Read more
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From The Pews Of The Church In Kilinian To Pioneers In Colonial Australia. The Patterson Clan.
The Church at Kilinian during the 18th and 19th century, if not earlier, was a Celtic Presbyterian Church where my ancestors, the Patterson and McClean ...Read more
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Sam Wolstenholme
On 5-6-1877 Sam Wolstenholme was born in Little Lever. Sam played local football then In 1897 he signed for Everton. After 107 games plus three international caps for England he moved to Blackburn in 1905,he played for four ...Read more
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Growing Up At Tombuie Cottage
My name is Drew Ramsay and my father retired from Calcutta India back home to Dundee in 1963 when I was 13 years old. He leased Tombuie Cottage for 5 years as a holiday home which came complete with a little over ...Read more
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Edinburgh fell, Holyrood was burnt.
During the 1830s this pretty village was the scene of a major uprising among farm labourers, with angry mobs burn- ing hayricks and destroying machinery.
During the 1830s this pretty village was the scene of a major uprising among farm labourers, with angry mobs burning hayricks and destroying machinery.
We are looking back across the Wye to the village.
The following year, Hertford was back in Scotland, burning five market towns, sacking 243 villages, and laying waste to crops.
She remembers the two classrooms with old paraffin lamps and tortoise stoves which 'used to get red hot so we burned in the front and shivered in the back'.
Poltross Burn, which flows through the middle of the village, marks the border between Northumberland and Cumbria.
The corn mill burned down in 1961, and then in 1964 Dr Beeching swung his axe and the pretty railway line from Buntingford to Ware was closed.
The stall backs are fine pedimented panels dating from the 17th century, and came from Oxford Cathedral.
Here we see the grand facade of the Blackburn Exchange & Reading Room, which opened in April 1865.
Here we see the grand facade of the Blackburn Exchange & Reading Room, which opened in April 1865.
Blackburn's Public Hall opened in 1923.The Sessions House is just beyond it on the right.
Blackburn's Public Hall opened in 1923.
Blackburn became a County Borough in 1888.
This photograph captures the great changes that were going on in Blackburn during the post-war period.
This bridge is a railway bridge, and is now part of the west coast main line.Another railway bridge (to Blackburn) can be seen in the distance.
Another railway bridge (to Blackburn) can be seen in the distance.
This photograph captures the changes that were going on in Blackburn at the time.
Stationers and Bookshop.The large window proudly proclaims that they have a Bible and Prayer Book Department.The horse-drawn tram heads off towards the Town Hall.The Sudell family can be traced back
Blackburn had two markets, the indoor market and an open air one, held every Wednesday and Saturday, when this photograph was taken.
Blackburn became a County Borough in 1888.
When this photograph was taken, Blackburn had two markets, the indoor market and an open air one, held every Wednesday and Saturday.
Blackburn means 'on the black stream'.The town guards the entrances to the river valleys we have been looking at in earlier pages - the Ribble, the Hyndeburn and the Hodder - and was the starting
Blackburn Road is at the very heart of the town.
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