Galgate, Main Road c.1960
Photo ref: G284020
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The Green Dragon Hotel, a stone-built 18th-century inn, is popular with residents and students from Lancaster University. Facing the Green Dragon across the road is a terrace of stone cottages, with the New Inn at the end. Next door to the Green Dragon, an antiquated Regent petrol pump indicates a garage. Note the striped crossing marked by a Belisha beacon – these crossings were introduced around 1930.

A Selection of Memories from Galgate

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 Galgate

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My mother's name was Alice Margaret Ellen Davis who was born 6 January 1915. Her mother died when my mum was just three years old on Christmas Day 1918. She was buried in the churchyard in Galgate. Her father went to work in Preston and her older brother was sent to work on a farm, while my mother was brought up by a couple who lived in the village of Galgate in a lovely cottage called "Woodbine ...see more