Torrisholme
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Torrisholme in the 1960s and 1970s
My name is Susan Railton (nee Price) and I grew up in Torrisholme in the 1960s and 1970s. It was always a place where everyone knew and cared about each other. I lived on Hyde Road and could see The Square from my bedroom. I remember going to the corner shops where Booths is now. I especially loved Mr Lupton's (I think that was what he was called). In his shop he had a shelf full of lovely sweets in glass jars and he always did a magic trick with the money you gave him. Next to him was the corner grocery shop where you got served with everything you wanted.
I remember the other shop further into the village where ...read more here
Contributed by susan railton
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Torrisholme in the 1960s and 1970s
My name is Susan Railton (nee Price) and I grew up in Torrisholme in the 1960s and 1970s. It was always a place where everyone knew and cared about each other. I lived on Hyde Road and could see The Square from my bedroom. I remember going to the corner shops where Booths is now. I especially loved Mr Lupton's (I think that was what he was called). In his shop he had a shelf full of lovely sweets in glass jars and he always did a magic trick with the money you gave him. Next to him was the corner grocery shop where you got served with everything you wanted.
I remember the other shop further into the village where ...read more here
A memory of Torrisholme contributed by susan railton
morecambe musical festival
From 1952 to 1959, aged 9 to 16 and at Morecambe Grammar School, I played the piano in the solo classes at the Morecambe Musical Festival - a premier event in the calendar of the Winter Gardens. It brought in thousands of people during the week; choirs, brass bands and soloists from Scotland, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Wales etc. with all their supporters, as well as local talent.
If I won my classes during the week I would appear in the grand finals on the Saturday evening and I still have all the certificates to prove it! Very daunting for a young person in that magnificent theatre and on that enormous stage. Every few years I come back and remember the Winter Gardens ...read more here
A memory of Morecambe contributed by IAN GERRARD
Hest Bank /Bolton le Sands
I lived with my grandparents in Bolton le Sands. I used to cycle to Morecambe most mornings, to J. W. Blands, painters and decorators, where I was apprenticed, hail rain and snow. I knew every inch of the coast road, the top of Hest Bank hill and down past the Cinderella Home, past the golf links and Happy Mount Park.
Lovely memories now ..
A memory of Hest Bank contributed by john wilson
Extracts From Torrisholme & Lancashire books
Here we see the centre of Torrisholme, a quiet Morecambe suburb, on a
pleasant, sunny day. It is an old settlement—Domesday Book recorded
Torrisholme as Toredholme, and later still as Toroldesbi. The George Hotel
is on the right, next to Shaw’s shop. In 1965 Torrisholme was developing
as a place to live for people working in Morecambe or Lancaster; from here
they could easily commute to work.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".
This ‘Happy Days’ wagonette or country-style horse
bus, harking back to transport in earlier days, is taking a
party on a jaunt on a sunny day. Our photographer was
lucky to catch the party who pose happily for him. They
are probably regulars from the hotel, and are going on a
specially-organised day out. Torrisholme was once a
hamlet two miles north-west of Lancaster, and was one
of the three villages which combined with Bare and
Poulton-le-Sands to make up Morecambe around 130
years ago.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".
The southern part of Morecambe was always referred to as
the West End. Here we see the exclusive part of Morecambe.
Our view takes in Werwick’s Revolving Tower and shows what
working-class people did for their week’s holiday: they sat and
relaxed and took in the sea air.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".
The old Town Hall was erected around 1781 on the site of an earlier
town hall. Major Thomas Jarratt was the designer of the building, which
opened in 1783. Market Square is the open area in front of the Town
Hall, and Market Street runs to the left. The locals liked the large Tuscan
portico and its four plain columns. The cupola and top were designed
by Thomas Harrison, and were added just after the building opened.
Harrison also designed Skerton Bridge. The total cost of the building
was £2,054 13s 7d, including a £20 bonus that Mr Dickinson, one
of the builders, had thought due to him.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".
THE ANCIENT city of Lancaster
gave its name not only to the Palatine
County, but also to a royal house.
The Tudors were descendants of the
House of Lancaster, and the Duke
of Lancaster was part of the Tudor dynasty.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".