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- 3 photos on Adlington appear in 3 Frith books - View photos of Adlington
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Christmas past
So many happy days with my & other families waiting for Chritmas to arrive as a child in the 1970s. Jean Coleman managing the Hotel, with her husband as head Chef.
I shall never forget the sound of all the proud father's (including my own) singing carols on Christmas morning before breakfast. Mums keeping their excited children in check. Waiting for Father Christmas to come down in the lift (!) after lunch. Panto on boxing day.
Meeting up with other families every year to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
Happy days.
A memory of Bispham contributed by David A
Childhood
I lived in Ormskirk Road, next to the Grimshaw Lane Pub. I went to Digmoor School, and then on to Skem Secondary School. My memories are of my wonderful childhood, that was spent walking and playing all around the fields that surrounded our house.
When I was older I would cycle through back Digmoor to Moorside Farm where my friend lived, and we would spend hours on the Moss. I remember the ASlmond family, who lived at Digmoor Hall before it was demolished, and relatives at Worthington House Farm nearby.
I love to see the old photos on the web sites as they bring back happy memories.
A memory of Upholland contributed by JOAN NEVILLE
Home
I was brought up in Up Holland and still think of it as home.
A memory of Upholland contributed by John Baxter
Windsor Road
We moved to Bromley Cross about 1947 just before my sister Virginia was born, it was a lovely new prefab, but I don't remember much about the inside of it apart from the wood-burning stove, that sticks in my mind for some reason. When it was thundering and lightning Mum would sit with us children on the back step and we would watch as the lightning snaked through the sky. A couple of years later they started to build new houses across the road and my Mum knew the councillor Mr Dart, I think he asked her which one she would like and she told him the one on the corner. That is how we came to live at 32 Windsor ...read more here
A memory of Bromley Cross contributed by julie christo
Extracts From Adlington & Lancashire books
A bread delivery van and some local traffic make Adlington look busy. The name of the village comes from an Old English personal name, Aethel, meaning ‘a noble friend’.
An extract from from"Heart of Lancashire Photographic Memories".
Chorley’s oldest building is the parish
church of St Lawrence, which was built in
the 14th century. The centre aisle is the
original church; the two side aisles were
added in c1860.
An extract from from"Heart of Lancashire Pocket Album".
Situated below Winter
Hill on Rivington Moor,
Adlington developed as
a textile town before the
advent of the railway
because of its proximity
to the Leeds and
Liverpool Canal, which
runs behind the main
street. Many of its stone
cottages were built to
house the mill’s workers,
which still stands on the
edge of the town.
An extract from from"Lancashire Living Memories".
This is how local historian W A Abram described
the Town Hall: ‘The west front, 120 feet wide,
with an elevation of 63 feet, presents the main
entrance in the centre, by three massive arched
doorways. The front is emboldened by Corinthian
columns resting upon a rusticated basement
upholding a broad tablature surmounted by
a perforated parapet’ - an impressive piece of
architecture.
An extract from from"Blackburn Town and City Memories".
The Exchange looks here much as it did when Charles Dickens ascended
its steps to give his reading. The premises on the right advertising Whittle
Springs Ales was W H Gregson’s brewers’ agents, later to become an office
for Grant’s whisky, the only one they had outside Scotland - a tribute to
Blackburn’s fondness for strong liquor. On the left was the Exchange Hotel.
An extract from from"Blackburn Town and City Memories".