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The Best Market In Lancashire
Bury market was famous and its modern version, though not as interesting, still is. We used to go to the market and buy one of Thompson's black puddings, piping hot in a grease-proof paper, The man would split it and put ...Read more
A memory of Bury in 1940 by
My Boyhood Memories. With My Grandad
I hope that anyone left of my family can read this, as now being 72 , I lost all track of coming to Kent. My home town was Lytham St Annes where my mother lived and dad was in the RAF and met my mother there. My ...Read more
A memory of Faversham by
Happy Days In Coulsdon, 1947 To 1955
Born in Purley Hospital in 1947, we lived in Bramley Avenue for the first 2 years of my life, but of course I have no memories of that. We then moved to 30 Grove Wood Hill, which is off Woodcote Grove Road. I had ...Read more
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The Meadow, Chislehurst.
We lived in The Meadow, the road opposite Rush Pond, for 30years. Our house is not there anymore, it was demolished and a much bigger house on the site. We had a dear little cottage, St Anne's. I still belong to the ...Read more
A memory of Chislehurst by
White House
My grandfather, Thomas Haskard, was proprietor of the White House inn for 25 years until his death in 1951. I spent many happy holidays there with my brother, Roger, and my three cousins lived in a house just across the road. I still ...Read more
A memory of Ambergate by
My Memories Of Resolven.
The personal views of Resolven expressed in these pages reflect my own fond memories of Resolven, the Vale of Neath and its people. In 1953 I returned to the valley as a teenager, little did I know it was to become my home. I ...Read more
A memory of Resolven by
Seaford Rd In The 50s And 60s
I was born in 15 Seaford rd. in 1954. Tottenham then was like a village where everyone knew everyone else. I can clearly remember rag and bone men with their horse and carts, ringing their bells yelling "old rags and ...Read more
A memory of Tottenham by
100 Melody Road. Wandsworth S.W.18
In 1943/4 My mother, brother and myself were bombed out of our home in Summerly Street. In that house we had a Morrison shelter and the night the bomb hit, a few houses away from our house, it affected our shelter ...Read more
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Laleham Abbey
My sister Kathleen Taylor (former name) was cook in the kitchen for the retired old ladies. I was always staying with her during school holidays. Her husband then (now deceased) was Barry Taylor and they had two children, Sarah born ...Read more
A memory of Laleham in 1970 by
The Low Davidson Family
My sister and I are from Canada and came to Scotland this past month, August, 2009, to see where our mother, Kathleen Low, and her family were born and raised in their youth. After many years of hearing them describe ...Read more
A memory of Johnshaven in 1900 by
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Private schools and its great popularity amongst Manchester businessmen caused the town to have further success.
By 1921 the green fees at the Old Links, St Anne's were 2s 6d on weekdays and higher at weekends, whilst the Lytham & St Anne's club charged a fee of 5s for play on any day of the week.
W J Porritt, Thomas Fair and Elijah Hargreaves from Rossendale were considered great pioneers in St Anne's; they later took an interest in Fairhaven, building the Promenade assisted by Thomas Riley of
Once known as Acres Field, it was here for about 500 years that Manchester's weekly markets and annual fairs were held.
At one stage, there were piers at both St Anne's and its close neighbour, Lytham.
On 6 August 1872 the building of St Anne's parish church began.
The post office, shrouded in mature trees, is situated opposite the old vicarage (now a private house).
At the pier entrance, near the bandstand and car park, there was a first aid post (right) on the edge of the remaining sand dunes.
The Midland Bank is on the left, with Stead & Simpson's shoe shop next door.
Following the building of St Anne's, Ansdell and Fairhaven were slower to develop, remaining an area of woodland and sandhills.
St Anne's Church at the end of Load Street was originally a chantry chapel, said to have been built by fugitives so that they might claim sanctuary.
A distinguished 16th- and early 17th-century three-storey building, which incorporates part of an earlier structure, and stands close to the eastern wall of St Ann`s Church.
To take a cab from here to St Anne's Square in Manchester cost 9d per mile for one or two people, and a 1s a mile for three or four people.
This view was taken from St Ann's Square.
Townsend`s Stores (left) have become J G Clifford, dispensing chemist; the tearooms and cafe are now Riverside Hair Design; Ali`s Tandoori Restaurant lies on the opposite side of the arched
The inscription on the fountain commemorates Lord Ashton's generosity to the inhabitants of St Anne's-on-Sea.
Originally this area was called Acres Field, and it was here that the Manchester Fair was held on the eve, day and morrow of St Matthew, September 20-22.
Lightburn Avenue was named after the second lighthouse at St Anne's.
This view was taken from St Anne's Square.
This view was taken from St Ann's Square.
At this time the resident population was around 9,000, compared to 58,000 for Blackpool.
Though well-maintained and kept in top-flight condition, Lytham Pier was of a somewhat functional design when compared to the one at St Anne's, or to the South Pier at Blackpool.
This is the corner of St Anne's Road West and Garden Street (right) before it was fully surfaced.
This is the corner of St Anne's Road West and Garden Street (right) before it was fully surfaced.
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