Flookburgh
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Feathers in our hair
My aunt and uncle went to live in Flookburgh in the early 1950s. My mum, brother and myself went to stay with them on holiday. I can't remember where we got the coach to but my uncle laughed when we got off the coach with paper carrier bags with our clothes in (no suitcases for us in those days). The road was a country lane (going down the road at the side of the cross) towards the sea. I remember there was a farm on the right hand side where we used to buy milk and further along on the left was their little house (it could have been a bungalow). We went to Humphrey Head where we collected sea gull ...read more here
Contributed by Dianne Littlewood
Cumbria memories
Feathers in our hair
My aunt and uncle went to live in Flookburgh in the early 1950s. My mum, brother and myself went to stay with them on holiday. I can't remember where we got the coach to but my uncle laughed when we got off the coach with paper carrier bags with our clothes in (no suitcases for us in those days). The road was a country lane (going down the road at the side of the cross) towards the sea. I remember there was a farm on the right hand side where we used to buy milk and further along on the left was their little house (it could have been a bungalow). We went to Humphrey Head where we collected sea gull ...read more here
A memory of Flookburgh contributed by Dianne Littlewood
home
I have lived in the pretty village of Cartmel all my life and I love the quiet, calming atmosphere we have here. Once a friend and myself used to walk through the village with a nanny goat called Nancy and her 2 kids, we'd arrive in the square and rest at the market cross with the goats playing on the "fish slabs" which caused a lot of amusement to the visitors, who in turn must have thought we were slightly mad! Near by is the stately home of the Cavendish family, Holker Hall, once upon a time the Duke of Edinburgh used to compete in the carriage driving trials here and on the sunday himself and The Queen went to ...read more here
A memory of Cartmel contributed by Sharon Dance
Family connections.
The gentleman with the scythe over his shoulder was my grandfather. His name was Joseph Jackson, born in 1849 at Bootle in Cumberland. He spent most of his life as a tenant farmer, first at Canleton Farm near Egremont also in Cumberland. He then moved to Lane Ends Farm at Haverthwaite in what was then Lancashire owing to subsidence of the land due to iron ore mining from the nearby Florence Mine. He retired from farming in 1919 to Penny Bridge where he spent the rest of his life.
A memory of Greenodd contributed by Mr J Jackson
Extracts From Flookburgh & Cumbria books
This charming and ancient market town, between the Kent Estuary and Cartmel Sands, takes its name from Floki,
the name of a Norse settler. It was renowned for its cockle gatherers and fishing for flukes, or flat fish, in the estuary.
An extract from from"50 Classics - Beautiful Villages".
This church opened in 1900,
replacing St Mary’s Church, which
formerly stood in the centre of
Flookburgh. There is no clock in
the tower at this date; the clock
was installed as a memorial
to those of the parish who fell
in the Second World War. A
representation of a Morecambe
Bay fluke, a fish, is on the weather vane.
An extract from from"Grange-over-Sands Photographic Memories".
The cross of 1882 was
erected on the site of an
ancient market cross.
It records the fact that
Flookburgh was granted its
first charter by Edward I in
1278; a second charter was
granted by Henry IV in 1412.
John Burrow is shown as the
licensee on the board on the
Hope and Anchor Inn (right).
A porch replaces the steps to
the entrance door today.
An extract from from"Grange-over-Sands Photographic Memories".
The only traffic is
a cart parked by a
barn on the right
of the road, its
shafts up in the air
(right). To its left is
the Crown Hotel.
The shop on the
left was J Slater
& Sons, a tailor’s
and draper’s. The
only person on
the street is a girl
holding a baby by
the house opposite
the barn.
An extract from from"Grange-over-Sands Photographic Memories".
Someone, perhaps Mr
Gillam the grocer who
owned the shop (left), is
writing on the blackboard:
lard was 6½d, sugar 2½d
(one penny today) and
4d, with bacon at 8d, and
cheese 9d and 10d. Next
door, with the curved
front, is the now rebuilt
former Co-op.
An extract from from"Grange-over-Sands Photographic Memories".