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Historic maps of Thistleton and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Thistleton maps
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Little Nellie
Hi anyone remember "Little Nellie" (husband Joe) and their daughter Annie and grand daughter Margaret, from Sultan Street in Accrington. We used to travel down on the same bus with them every Friday night. In those days, we got the bus from the bottom of Water Street/Melbourne Street (now Eastgate). They had a caravan on Thornfield for years and years. When you passed the shop and turned onto the site, their caravan was way down the bottom, tucked in a corner. Little Nellie was extremely small and always seemed to wear mens wide legged trousers, with turn ups!
June
I Was There When Pic Was Being Taken
The camp shop pic was being taken when I was stopped while leaving the Bungalow next to the orchard, I was 8 yrs old. I was going to the shop. The 2 women I think were Auntie Dorene on the left from the house on the left, she was working in the shop part time, and Auntie Nellie Scott who also worked there, she rented the second house down from us, from my mum Clara. We later had Sunnyside Cafe built in 1967. Margaret Hall worked for my mum then, they were new to the village, she worked at the mushroom factory as well.
1960 Onwards
"Oh Happy Days". My first view of Staining was the 9th June 1960. I remember it well. I seem to remember the Staining bus did NOT go into the village, but stopped across from the old Plough pub. My gran had bought a caravan there, just up Chain Lane, on Mrs Smiths caravan site. Mr and Mrs Smith lived in the farmhouse, their 4 daughters lived nearby in the two red brick semis which Nana Smith had had built. (Auntie Fred'a has now been altered beyond all recognition). I got to know them all over the years. "Auntie Irene" Openshaw, with husband Norman and sons Charles, Dennis and Philip - their house was next to the caravan site and known as "Glentoo". Then there was Auntie Annie and Uncle Richard next door. Then Auntie Rosie and husband Joe who lived in the farmhouse, down the old lane, near the windmill (near a pig farm where Charles worked at one time). Then lovely lovely Auntie Freda and husband Fred Chadwick, with... Read more
Staining Now
I left Staining in 1974. We lived in the street where Fred Chatwick,had his garage with son Fred. My mum knew Irene very well as she worked to at the mushroom farm in Staining, along with the late Mary Whiteside and husband Frank. My best friend at the time was their daughter Teresa. I moved back to Staining in 1998, down the Nook, it's all changed, the little caravan site has gone and also Uncle Jim's Farm, who sadly got murdered many years ago now. I have very fond memories of Staining as a child, and that is why I returned. Reading your stories made me chuckle as I can relate to most of the people who you know and the village itself. Hope you reply, just love reading about the good old days in our tiny village.
Thornfield Holiday Park
One of my earliest memories was of falling in the dyke with my best dress on, I was around 18 months old and on Mrs Smith site which I think was close to Dover Lodge. I remember the delicious milk from Wrigglesworths which had red writing on and a picture of a cow on the bottle and a red top. After the dyke incident we moved to Thornfield. I have very fond memories of this site. I was friends with Margaret and also knew her Grandma Nellie. I used to be friends with a family called Cooper from Yorkshire especially Elaine. I would love to hear from any of the girls I played with back then. The Ways who were from Manchester and had a daughter called Sonya and an Austrian friend called Esther Sheikel. Esther's parents were trick cyclists in the circus. I would have tea with Esther's family and her grandmother would make schnitzel and noodles. I learned to speak German very well from... Read more
How Inskip Has Changed so Little
I have lived in Inskip most of my life, it is a nice little village that has changed very little in the past 32 years of my life. My parents have lived in Inskip over 30 years and my nanna a lot longer. The changes I have noticed are a few more houses, the loss of our shop and post office, and HMS Inskip has changed hands.
Shovels Inn - 1952 to 1971
My grandparents, John & Betty Whiteside, were Landlord & Landlady of The Shovels Inn 1952-1971. I was born in 1955 and clearly remeber the pub as it was then, before they tore down walls! The old men of the village taught me how to play dominoes in one of the little rooms that used to be off the main bar. As you walked through the door there used to be an open fire on the right with the dartboard above it. On the photograph, on the extreme right, just outlined against the white building, you can see the petrol pump which was used to fill the charabancs that used to call at the pub on day trips to the Over Wyre area.
