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Childrens names.
The children in the boat are Leslie (boy), Harry (his brother), Noel (his sister) Wren. His other sister Millie Wren is sitting on the riverbank. The other child is a neighbour. For many years Millie Wren was a teacher at Lightburn School, Ulverston.
A memory of Newby Bridge contributed by Jean Wren
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
Great-grandparents marriage
My great-grandparents Robert Close and Annie Head were married at this church on January 8th 1888.
A memory of Aspatria contributed by Ellen Neal
Hundredth Anniversary of Wordsworth's Death
I was born in Bridge Street and went to Fairfield School, or "Fairfield Junior Mixed" as it was called when it became Co-Ed in about 1948. I remember the whole class having to walk up to Harris Park and stand round the fountain shown in the picture. Unfortunately we had to hold a daffodil during the walk and then recite Daffodils when we were round the fountain. I noticed when I was in Cockermouth a few weeks ago that the fountain has moved onto the Main Street into the Memorial Garden opposite Wordsworth House. The Garden is on the site of my grandparents house and the Wordsworth tavern.
A memory of Cockermouth contributed by Joseph Douglas
Extracts From Glasson & Cumbria books
We are looking out over
Grange to Morecambe Bay
from Charney Well Road,
which rises steeply above
the town. Now, houses
occupy the slope in front
of the camera. On the
left we can see the long,
steeply pitched roof of the
Methodist church on Kents
Bank Road. Its neighbours
had not then been built; the
date stone on what is now
McClure & Whitaker Ltd is
for 1903.
An extract from from"Grange-over-Sands Photographic Memories".
taken. Highfield Road crosses to the right below the field. The trees behind St Paul’s Church
have gone today. Now, housing occupies the land on either side of the road, which leads
from Grange to Cartmel.
An extract from from"Grange-over-Sands Photographic Memories".
This photograph was
taken from a spot near
Westcliffe Gardens. The
long wall is now broken
for entrances to later
housing. St Paul’s Church,
together with Holme
Island, in the centre of the
picture, are still to be seen
from here.
An extract from from"Grange-over-Sands Photographic Memories".
To the right of the bungalow on the
left, which now has four dormer
windows, is the roof of the Club
Union Home, which was then
topped with a small tower; this
tower was demolished in the 1960s
when the third floor was added.
From 1990 it became Cartmel
Grange, a private nursing home. A
housing development has grown up
in the field from which the picture
was taken.
An extract from from"Grange-over-Sands Photographic Memories".
Before becoming a private
nursing home, this building
was a convalescent home for
members of working men’s
clubs that were affiliated to
the Club Union. Members
needing to convalesce, usually
for a fortnight, applied to their
club’s committee for a stay at
the home. They generally took
their wives, and the charge
was normally met by the club.
Often, this was known as the
Miners’ Home. It was erected
in 1914 (the date appears
above the stained glass
main doorway in the centre
of the building), and was
officially opened in 1916. In
the grounds is a stone statue
of a First World War soldier,
given by the Normanton
Central Liberal Club - it can
be seen from the road. This
monument is now listed.
An extract from from"Grange-over-Sands Photographic Memories".