Nostalgic memories of Kirkham's local history

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Halls At Kirkham

Hello, It was Frith's photos, but I'd given up! Lovely to make contact. Mum's brother was Lawrence Scurry, who married Myra's sister Louie. I was only a few months old when I first visited Kirkham in 1949 and Uncle Lawrence and Aunty Louie had the corrugated iron bungalow halfway up the hill. Uncle Lawrence made a crib for me. Uncle Lawrence was Head Gardener for Mrs Brotherton, and Ernest Hepton was his ...see more

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Added 28 March 2014

Ggamekeeper

My grandfather, Henry French, was the gamekeeper at Kirkham Hall. He lived at Whitwell-on-the Hill and I spent many good times with him. My uncle, Albert, was the postman at Whitwell and my father worked on the railway at Richmond, N.Yorkshire. He had also another brother and sister, I think the brother was called Walter French, he worked in the woods but died of cancer in the middle of the 1950's. Albert French had just ...see more

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Added 02 February 2014

Grandparents In Service At Kirkham Hall

Both my grandparents were in service at Kirkham Hall in the 1920s and 30s. My Grandma, Annie Morris, originally from Newcastle, joined her Aunt Annie (who was cook) there when she was in her teens and started as a scullery maid and later progressed to work "upstairs". My Grandad, Albert French, came orginally from the Yorkshire Dales, and worked at the Hall as a footman. His brother was also a ...see more

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Added 04 February 2012

Happy Days At Kirkham Abbey

I lived at Kirkham Abbey in a little bungalow called Sunny Side. It is no longer there now as it was pulled down. It was situated where the carpark now is for The Stone Trough. My mother and father in law lived in The Bungalows. He, Ernest James Cook, was the butler for Mrs Brotherton at Kirkham Hall. Mr Robert Hall and his wife lived and farmed there and Mr Eric Batty was station master and lived in ...see more

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Added 22 February 2010

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Nostalgic memories of Kirkham's local history

Share your own memories of Kirkham and read what others have said

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Halls At Kirkham

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Grandparents In Service At Kirkham Hall

Happy Days At Kirkham Abbey