Lancaster, John O'gaunt's Gateway, The Castle c.1955
Photo ref:
L10028
Photo ref:
L10028
More about this scene
The façade of the Old Town Hall is here more evident, and the pub on the right remembers Lancaster's associations with John o'Gaunt. A ginnel on the left, Sun Street, leads to the elegant 18th-century Music Room. Thought to have been built as a garden summerhouse and now restored by the Landmark Trust, its plaster decoration depicts the Muses.
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A Selection of Memories from Lancaster
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 Lancaster
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I still see the journey from my home in Morecambe to start my senior school years.
First the bus from my home on Regent Road to the Midland Hotel.
Then, across to the station for the train to Green Ayre station.
From there a walk past Wareing and Gillow furniture store where I had planned to buy when I grew up!
Mostly I would pass by grisly Dr Ruxtons then uphill to school where I did my GCEs before moving to the new Our Lady’s High School across Skerton bridge.
My Great Great Grandmother Jane Oversby worked for a widow, Mrs Margaret Rossall, who lived at 10 Dalton Square, Lancaster. I visited Dalton Square and counted the houses from 2 - 9; then sent down the other side Numbers 11 onward. I could not find 10 Dalton Square until a local person told me that the Town Hall is not as old as it looks. It was built at the beginning of the 20th ...see more
On behalf of my wife (Kathleen, nee Bromley) I am try to trace Gillian Cowking, believed to have been born December 1941 or thereabouts. Gillian worked for a while in Budapest and then later in Paris. Contact was then lost. Any info would be gratefully received. Thank you.
When i first met my only true love i was just 13 and we were together for about 4years before she met someone else
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