Chatburn, The Toll House c.1955
Photo ref: C462004
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Photo ref: C462004
Photo of Chatburn, The Toll House c.1955

More about this scene

The building dividing the junction was built in 1739 as a toll-house, but since the late 1930s it has been the home of Hudson's ice cream. The secret recipe was devised by Margaret Hudson, daughter of the butcher who then owned the shop. Although it has since changed hands, the present owners continue to make the same delicious ice cream.

A Selection of Memories from Chatburn

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Chatburn

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My grandad kept racing pigeons, his loft was at the top of the old road looking down into the village centre. Ever Saturday morning during the racing season he would send me up to the Brown Cow (public house) to check when the birds had been released and which way the wind was blowing. It would say something like, let 09.30 / wind SW. I would have to remember this all the way back to tell my grandad. We would then sit and wait for the first sign of his birds. I was nine years old at the time