Places
36 places found.
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- Blackburn, Lancashire
- Darwen, Lancashire
- Blackburn, Lothian
- Brookhouse, Lancashire (near Blackburn)
- Cherry Tree, Lancashire
- Turton Bottoms, Lancashire
- Belmont, Lancashire
- Little Harwood, Lancashire
- Blackburn, Grampian (near Cranloch)
- Blackburn, Grampian (near Kintore)
- Blackburn, Yorkshire (near Rotherham)
- Pleasington, Lancashire
- Feniscowles, Lancashire (near Blackburn)
- Feniscowles, Lancashire (near Blackburn)
- Intack, Lancashire (near Blackburn)
- Mill Hill, Lancashire (near Blackburn)
- Four Lane Ends, Lancashire (near Blackburn)
- Waterloo, Lancashire
- Brownhill, Lancashire
- Whitehall, Lancashire
- Chapeltown, Lancashire
- Blacksnape, Lancashire
- Bank Hey, Lancashire
- Edge Fold, Lancashire
- Feniscliffe, Lancashire
- Whittlestone Head, Lancashire
- Higher Croft, Lancashire
- Chapels, Lancashire
- Rosehill, Lancashire
- Waterside, Lancashire
- Edgworth, Lancashire
- Hoddlesden, Lancashire
- Pickup Bank, Lancashire
- Pleckgate, Lancashire
- Lammack, Lancashire
- Lower Darwen, Lancashire
Photos
182 photos found. Showing results 21 to 40.
Maps
232 maps found.
Books
1 books found. Showing results 25 to 1.
Memories
183 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.
War Years
The Tucker family were evacuated to Green Hammerton from 1940 - 1942. My brother John lived with Mr & Mrs Blackburn and my sister lived with Mrs Wray at the post office. They are both alive and still keep in contact with one of the village residents whom I shall be visiting this September.
A memory of Green Hammerton in 1940 by
Evacuation
I was 6 years old in 1941 and a native of Glasgow. During the worst of the German bombing at that time, my mother, brother and I moved to Auchnahyle Farm, which was farmed by my father's uncle and aunts, Bob, Mag and Jess Jamieson. My ...Read more
A memory of Pitlochry in 1941 by
Cheadle In The Second World War
I think that we must have moved to Cheadle around 1938, because I was born in Newcastle under Lyme, but my younger sister was born in Cheadle in 1939. At that time we lived on Leek Road. We had various ...Read more
A memory of Cheadle in 1930 by
St Michaels On Wyre
My dad had a cousin who was Vicar at St Michaels on Wyre during the 1945 - 55 era. His name, Raymond Bell. As a child visiting his parents in Wray, near Hornby during the Second World War years I only met Raymond ...Read more
A memory of St Michael's on Wyre in 1950 by
Betton A Rural Idyl
I literally stumbled upon this website and have been interested to read the memories of people who lived in Betton, a place well known to me. I lived there as a wartime evacuee in the 1940s, and Marc Chrysanthou's ...Read more
A memory of Market Drayton in 1940 by
Dunsmore People And Happenings Remembered
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION In 1995, when the first edition of this history was published, it seemed incredibly optimistic to have had three hundred copies printed for a market which ...Read more
A memory of Dunsmore by
Bombing Of Morland Avenue
Written by my mother when she was 70. She lived in Swaisland Road I think one of the things you would have noticed was the number of barrage balloons all around, high in the sky. The first sound of guns which we heard ...Read more
A memory of Dartford in 1945
Wartime Years In Llanarmon Yn Ial
Shortly after the outbreak of war, my Father who had a pet shop in Wallasey, evacuated the family to Llanarmon. We consisted of Dad, Mum, my brother Ray and myself. We moved into Rose Cottage in the ...Read more
A memory of Llanarmon-yn-Ial in 1940 by
The Nag''s Head
One didn't have to travel to London in the past to watch pro bands plying their trade. The Nag's Head public house was a much attended venue during the late 1960s and early 1970s for watching many of the (what was then known as) ...Read more
A memory of Wollaston in 1969 by
My Schooldays 1952 54 Near Skipton
My Grandparents lived at 26 Otley Street in Skipton from the 1940 ( or earlier ) and I had first visited them in 1945 after VE day, They were Thomas Henry Jackson, my Grandmother Charlotte Jackson and their ...Read more
A memory of Skipton in 1952 by
Captions
68 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.
At one time, Stanhill was an isolated hamlet on the road between Blackburn and Oswaldtwistle, and it is most famous as being the home of the inventor James Hargreaves.
The views are of the Town Hall in the centre, the sunken gardens on Broadway, the Parkinson Rock Garden in Oak Hill Park, Blackburn Road and St James' Church.
Blackburn Road has been pedestrianised, enabling improved street furniture and planting.
The patron was Jane Turner, whose husband had been elected in Blackburn's first parliamentary elections the previous year.
In Anglo-Saxon this place was known as 'burh', meaning 'fortified place'; its present prosperity rests firmly in the 20th century.
In Anglo-Saxon this place was known as 'burh', meaning 'fortified place'; its present prosperity rests firmly in the 20th century.
The Sudell family can be traced back to the reign of Edward VI.
We are at the top of the street seen in photograph no 71178.The Black Bull, where the people are standing, was built in 1855; it was a Blackburn Brewery Company pub, and so was The Brown Cow.
Beside the imposing 19th-century bank building, which overlooks the corner of Blackburn Road, rises a naked steel tower, a herald of the monotonous shopping developments that have robbed
The premises on the right advertising Whittle Springs Ales was W H Gregson's brewers' agents, later to become an office for Grant's whisky, the only one they had outside Scotland - a tribute to Blackburn's
In the 1950s over 35% of jobs in Blackburn were in engineering, 20% in textiles, and the rest in paper, beer and plastics.
They were the Whalley to Manchester Road (1790), now Abbey Street; the Blackburn Road (1826-7); and the road to Burnley (1838).
The signs leave no doubt that in 1960 the inn was owned by Dutton's Brewery (of Blackburn), and that John Kirkby was the licensee.
monks from Bridlington some 900 years ago, we see the bridge over the Swale and the white Bridge Inn (centre). 17th-century cottages stretch out in all directions, and bottom left is the 13th-century Blackburn
Garth Dawson's Camera Cabin, located behind the clock (centre, behind the bus), has had several locations around the centre of Accrington, and is now sited round the corner on Blackburn
This splendid photograph of this beauty spot was taken from a point on what is now called Witton Weavers Way, the Beamers Trail in picturesque Witton Park close to Blackburn.
This part of Blackburn Road was a hive of activity with lots of shops.
A group of children sit outside the Technical School, now part of Blackburn College, but founded during Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee celebrations.
Dr James was not one to spare the rod, but his successor, Dr Henry Ingles, was known as 'The Black Tiger' for the severity of his rule.
These were the last buildings on the western edge of the town, on the Exeter road, where Foundry House is now flats and the metal-working premises of J I Blackburn Limited and an entire new housing
In the 1950s over 35% of jobs in Blackburn were in engineering, 20% in textiles, and the rest in paper, beer and plastics.
The tracks across the setts formed part of Blackburn's tramway, which opened in April 1881.
This photograph was taken from outside the Market Hall looking down Blackburn Road towards its junction with Abbey Street.
The railway arrived in the village in 1850, and the 600yd-long viaduct carries the Blackburn to Clitheroe line through at a height of 70ft.
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