Old Cottages Near Beach, Cove Lane c1955, Silverdale
Old Cottages Near Beach, Cove Lane c1955, Silverdale Ref: S609047
Memories of Old Cottages Near Beach, Cove Lane c1955, Silverdale
Cove Cottage
My family have lived at Cove Cottage for 80 years. It was originally owned by the Bright family whom my grandfather worked for all his life. My parents were lucky enough to buy the cottage after my grandmother passed away aged 93.
Silverdale Crossings
Our family lived at Silverdale Crossings until 1959. Mother had a small sweets and general stores shop, Father worked as crossing keeper until his death in 1959, the house (now demolished) came with the job. Initially he was on duty 24 hours a day, the crossing gates were closed to traffic at all times and vehicles had to press a bell to get him to open the gates, pedestrians could use a small wicket gate to cross. In later years when there was more traffic, and a team of keepers worked 8 hour shifts. I am sure there are lots of people who have memories of this service, including an unusual petrol supply, the cars were filled by petrolcans, measured from pumps off the Railways property. I am now 77, have two brothers still alive, one in France, another farming at Burrow. Silverdale has a lot of memories for me.
18 Emsgate Lane .the Post Office in 1948
I am tracing family history. I would like to know who was running the Post Office in that year in 1948?My mother Marjorie Edna Webber was an assistant there. I also have family memories of Mattie and Percy Allinson who I used to stay with. My father and his brother used to stay and help at Allinsons farm on Cove Road in the early teens and twenties of the twentieth century. My mum and dad adopted me from Silverdale in 1948. Marjorie was my birth mother. Does anyone remember anything? I think that Isobel Bessie and Charlie Webber who are buried in the churchyard are my birth grandparents. I would really like to find out who I am and I have no axe to grind! Thank you.
Silverdale & local memories
Read and share memories of Silverdale and Lancashire inspired by Frith photos.
LIFE IN SILVERDALE 1946 T0 1949
I moved to Silverdale from Bradford in 1945/6 at the end of the war, with my father, Leslie Waddington, and my grandmother Mary Waddington. We bought Swiss Cottages down Townsfield from Tommy Taylor the joiner for £1100, with three quarters of an acre of land and the sufferance footpath which still connects Townsfield to St John's Church. I left Silverdale in November 1949 to join the Fleet Air Arm for seven years. My girlfriend was Joan Allinson, who lived on Cove Road, next to Robert Bolton and Miss Knight!! Peter Waddington now lives in Yealand Conyers aged 80.
Like Coming Home
My memories of Silverdale are many and varied. The family homes of my parents Betty Bolton and Dennis Shorrocks were there and we would return once or twice a year. I remember playing with cousins, in woods or lotts or on Castle Barrow (pepper pot) or in the attic in Grandad Bolton's on Cove Road. But the thing that gets me, even now years on, is the drive from Warton to Silverdale. My heart lifts with joy, "I'm coming home."
