Glasson Dock
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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
childhood 60s memeoreis
I have fond memories of Heysham as a child, during the 1960s, drinking nettle beer with my brother and sisters. My auntie Hilda and uncle Billy lived in Ulverston, and my uncle worked at the ICI works, I think it was Half Moon Bay, we used to go and sit on the rocks while my uncle used to bring us our dinner which I presume he got from the works. I've not been back to Heysham since being a child. I'm now 57 years old and will be going back in the summer maybe its all changed now but nevertheless I'll go to see and relive some of my childhood. PS I remember once going aboard a destroyer to have a ...read more here
A memory of Heysham contributed by john midgley
Henrys. Market Street.
I used to work at Henrys store, in the stock room. It was my first real job. It was a great old place. In the cellar was a secret passage way to the castle, bricked up from when there was a farmhouse there, I was told.
Christmas time was fantastic with Father Christmas and the grotto, and Father Christmas was my grandfather before I worked there - I sat on his knee when I was small and didn't know it was my grandad, how's that! I loved that place. British Home Stores rebuilt on the site and I worked for them for a while too. Allan Holmes.
A memory of Lancaster contributed by allan holmes
Extracts From Glasson Dock & Lancashire books
This view shows the main dock, with the River
Lune beyond. Our photographer is standing on
the bridge over the lock which separates the dock
from the Lancaster Canal basin. At the time of
our photograph, ship repairing was still going
on at Glasson, and the graving or dry dock was
still in use. We see behind the dock a busy little
port, though it was mostly used by coasters and
Irish cargo boats.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".
This view shows the main dock, with the River
Lune beyond. Our photographer is standing on
the bridge over the lock which separates the dock
from the Lancaster Canal basin. At the time of
our photograph, ship repairing was still going
on at Glasson, and the graving or dry dock was
still in use. We see behind the dock a busy little
port, though it was mostly used by coasters and
Irish cargo boats.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".
We can take a closer look at that terrace. On the right you can see
the Nissen huts put up in the 1939-45 war for soldiers and the
Home Guard, who were based here to keep supplies flowing during
the war years. This area is now the main car park for visitors. One of
the gondolas from the big wheel at Blackpool ended its life as a cafe
here, and stood just to the right of our picture.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".
We are actually inside the port area here; again we see the mixture of
coasters, fishing vessels, yachts and pleasure craft. Even today the dock is
like a living open-air museum, with old bits of machinery and rusting
equipment around. Though the railway here closed in 1964 along with
Condor Green Station, there are still lines and the odd wagon in the
dock. The area around Glasson is teaming with wildlife, and is a bird
watcher’s paradise from Conder Green down to Cockerham Sands in the
south. Swans and ducks live in the canal basin.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".
After the turn of the 19th century, Glasson Dock was used more and
more by pleasure craft. Wealthy mill owners and industrialists found it
handy to leave their boats in the shelter of the dock or the canal basin,
and leisure became more and more a source of income for Glasson Dock.
Here we see only two working ships to four pleasure cruisers, though
ships could only come and go into the dock on a rising or high tide. Our
hotel has had a big facelift: it stands out white and ornate in Victoria
Terrace, which contains a pub at either end.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".