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- 5 photos on Galgate appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Galgate
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Lancashire memories
chapel
Each week, as a 15 - 16 year-old, I used to cycle from Morecambe on a Sunday morning for an organ lesson at the chapel of the Moor Hospital. It was uphill there and downhill home. My teacher was the organist there, also Director of Music at LRGS, and my lesson started after the Sunday morning service. As I progressed I was allowed to play the recesssional after the service. Every few years I come back to look at that magnificant building (the Annex) and think of all those thousands of people, staff and patients, who kept that sanctuary alive - a city within a city - which care within the community cannot now hope to replicate. I regret its demise ...read more here
A memory of Lancaster contributed by IAN GERRARD
Williamson Park Gate House
The 1881 census shows my grandfather (John Smart) and his family living in this house. He was the Landscape Gardener of the park.
A memory of Lancaster contributed by hazel veitch
Vacation
Cannot remember to much of this vacation as I was only 4 years old at the time. But as I was growing up Mum used to talk a lot about this holiday and only recently I was looking through some old snap shots and I came across one taken sitting on a wall with my Dad I presume it was the Promanade in Heysham. Mum always wrote on the back of the photo saying the place they were taken.
A memory of Heysham contributed by Brenda Vanderwert
Heysham Towers
Morecambe Bay Holiday Camp, aka Heysham Towers, in the early sixties as a teenager. The Towers were owned by the Holdens, I especially remember Derek and Jean. We were roused by the 'phantom buglar' and didn't have a minute to spare until 'Goodnight Campers'. We danced to Norman Robinson's band, and Jack Winston playing the organ. The activities were organised by Reg Kerr and Jimmy MacHugh. We had some good times in the 'Nip Inn'. Sometimes we would go into the village to drink Mrs Holmes' nettle beer or have delicious knickerbocker glories at the tea gardens opposite St Peter's Church. Such happy times, never forgotten.
Sadly, the towers are gone, but the memory lingers on.
A memory of Heysham contributed by kathleen wilson
Extracts From Galgate & Lancashire books
Pictured from Highland
Brow, the scene looks across
the railway and the A6
to Thompson Mill, which
operated as a silk mill from
1792 until 1971. Originally
a water-powered corn-mill,
it was converted to steam
and considerably extended
during the 19th century.
The cottages of the village
are shown to the right.
An extract from from"Lancashire Living Memories".
The boatyard serves the marina, which has space for 100 boats. Lucas's boatbuilders are the premises near the large craft (centre). Popular regattas are held, and the Lancaster canal is nearby. Only just visible on the horizon is part of Lancaster University. The mainstay of Galgate villagers from 1790 to 1960 was the silk mill, where 400 people worked during the mill's heyday.
An extract from from"Lancashire Villages Photographic Memories".
This fine stone bridge spans the Preston to Tewitfield Canal; alongside runs part of the A6 road. Railway trains travelling from London to Glasgow thunder nearby on a high viaduct. The plaque reading ‘Number 86’ alongside the arch possibly indicates this bridge’s number – there are many bridges crossing the canal. Sedges and reed mace hide wading birds, coot and grebe, whilst swans and shelducks are not averse to sheltering under the bridge in stormy weather.
An extract from from"Lancashire Villages Photographic Memories".
The post office, the Green
Dragon and, opposite, the
New Inn, overlook the
cross-roads at the centre
of the village. Galgate’s
inns once played a
part in nominating the
village ‘mayor’. The
annual fair was inevitably
accompanied by excessive
drinking, and the first
man found sleeping it
off in the hedgerows the
following morning was
given the honour.
An extract from from"Lancashire Living Memories".
The Green Dragon Hotel, a stone-built 18th-century inn, is popular with residents and students from Lancaster University. Facing the Green Dragon across the road is a terrace of stone cottages, with the New Inn at the end. Next door to the Green Dragon, an antiquated Regent petrol pump indicates a garage. Note the striped crossing marked by a Belisha beacon – these crossings were introduced around 1930.
An extract from from"Lancashire Villages Photographic Memories".