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.
Childhood Memories At Grandma Robinsons
Funny how some things stay with you all your life, and even when you leave a country you have grown up in, those memories follow you. It was the end of WW2, people were beginning to settle, 'ration books' ...Read more
A memory of Stalybridge by
Canon Peter Nicholson
I was a pupil at the Paston Grammar School from 1936-42. It was a wonderful school where boys from all over N.E. Norfolk made many friends so that when they left school and started work in the area, they co-operated in so ...Read more
A memory of North Walsham by
Alamein Barracks At Huyton
I had never even heard of Huyton, much less been there until I joined the Territorial Army in 1967. I had enlisted at a recruiting office in Manchester and attended the Alamein Barracks for my basic training in 1967. In ...Read more
A memory of Huyton in 1967 by
Days Out In Lytham In The Forties And Fifties
We lived in Preston, Lancashire from 1944 to 1956 and often came here for the day on the bus. My mother preferred Lytham to Blackpool and we spent happy hours on the sands. This picture, taken before the ...Read more
A memory of Lytham by
The Pellys Of Nether Compton
In August 2006 my daughter and I visited Nether Compton in a Trace Your Ancestors search. My father, the son of an Eliza Pelly here in Lancashire, always told the tale of two brothers, Charles and Henry Pelly, who ...Read more
A memory of Nether Compton by
Tracing Any Descendents Of Sarah And David Davies
I've just recently started to build my family tree and my family on my maternal side comes from Garnant, South Wales. My mother's name was Olive Nora Dicks, she was born in Garnant in 1924, she had ...Read more
A memory of Garnant by
Holidays At Moreton Paddox
My parents, my brother and I had about six holidays at Moreton Paddox during the early 1950s when it was a WTA (Workers Travel Association) holiday home. On occasion my grandparents or aunt and uncle accompanied us ...Read more
A memory of Moreton Paddox in 1953
Gillingham Tech
I lived in Wigmore - the prefabs - and after passing the 11+ went to the Tech. I believe this was once Rochester Tech but had now started up in Gardener Street. We were the first year to attend in Gillingham and it was also the ...Read more
A memory of Gillingham in 1954 by
Happy Sunny Days
I only have great sunny memories of Halifax as a child. A lot of these photos in the 1960's show the sunshine... just how I remember it. My granddad worked on the buses and in the photos he may have been on one of those! His mate ...Read more
A memory of Halifax in 1966 by
Captions
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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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