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 Lancaster, Market Street c1950 (ref: L10006t) |
Year: 1969
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. Last edited: 08/12/2008 11:12 by Allan Holmes |
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 Lancaster, County Asylum 1891 (ref: 28606) |
Year: 1958
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 and the safe haven it provided for so many people. Posted: 24/04/2008 22:34 by Ian Gerrard |
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 Lancaster, the Entrance to Williamson Park c1955 (ref: L10059) |
Year: 1880s
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. Last edited: 15/10/2006 21:35 by Hazel Veitch |
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 Torrisholme, the Square c1965 (ref: T238013) |
Year: 1968
Torrisholme In The 1960s And 1970s A memory of Torrisholme, Lancashire 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 the bookmakers is now, it was owned by a woman I only knew as Barbara. Mum would take me in there after we had been to Mass. My friends and I would often play in the park near the spar shop (or Shaw's as it was known then), I have passed several times when I go to visit family, and noticed that there is still some original play equipment still there, like the running wheel and climbing frame. I used to get excited when it was Easter and the churches got together to put on a parade through the village depicting the final journey of Christ, it was so real when you were a kid! Then the cross was placed upon the Barrow. Torrisholme is gradually changing, but it still retains its character and still has a lovely community feel. Last edited: 08/12/2008 10:53 by Susan Railton |
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 Morecambe, Winter Gardens c1955 (ref: M94057) |
Year: 1955
Morecambe Musical Festival A memory of Morecambe, Lancashire 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 as it used to be in those halcyon days of the 50's. How it has all changed, especially as I had a tour round the old theatre a couple of years ago and saw how much decay had set in. I went on to Manchester University to gain a music degree and still regard the Winter Gardens as a very large stepping stone on the way to my career as a professional pianist. The Winter Gardens - and Ballroom - will never be the same again, as neither will Morecambe itself, but I hope the limited restoration project for the theatre is successful. It deserves a new lease of life since I think it was once the largest theatre between London and Scotland with a capacity of 7000 if you included the Ballroom, on the right of your photograph, sadly now demolished. May it always be remembered for what it was and for all the famous (and not-so-famous!) stars who trod the boards there. Posted: 29/11/2007 20:49 by Ian Gerrard |
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