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Quernmore, The Crossroads c.1955
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The village of Quernmore is three miles south-east of Lancaster. Quernmore Park Hall lies just over a mile north of the village. A quern was a Roman hand-mill, and the moor behind the village had the ideal material to make these small mill-stones. Kvernberg is Old Norse for a mill-stone quarry. The village took its name from the great Quernmore forest which once covered this area. This photograph shows the cross-roads, where the motorist could get some refreshment and petrol in those days of more leisurely travel. The road behind us climbs up to Hare Appletree Fell.

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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. These memories are of Quernmore, The Crossroads c.1955

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Draining The Lands
I took my father back here in the 1980s as he said he use to work on the fields around this area draining the lands. He is in his eighties now and recently we went through some of his old photos and came across Quernmore. I have old sepia photo' he had taken of this area and of the small church to the left of this picture halfway down the road on the right hand side. This was his job in 1948 to dig and drain ...see more
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