Holmevale
A Memory of Helmshore.
I lived in Helmshore at Holmevale known to the locals as Snighole. My Great grandparents built the residence known simply as the Bunglow. I was born in 1954 attended the local primary school .I have many happy memories of playing in the memorial gardens and on the park and was very saddened by the state of the gardens now they were once kept in a pristine condition by Charlie the park gardener and on most Sundays in the summer months the Helmshore band would play music most of the afternoon. I also remember the old railway station running like the clappers to get onto the foot bridge before the steam train passed under if you were lucky the driver would blast a clouds of stream up as he passed under.
Several generations of my family lived in Helmshore from the 1860s.
I often wonder what happened to my old school mates. John Smithson, Richard West, Paul Mellor to name but a few. Happy days. Saddly Helmshore as changed and not for the better.
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