[Bob Dobson]

Originally Posted by claytonx

I have read this post from start to now and really enjoyed all the posts. The problem I have is that having lived in Clayton -le-Moors for 25 years, and as a teenager walked nearly every Saturday night from Accy to Clayton along Whalley road and not always worse for ware never new that a Children's home was on there, and never new of Dyke Lodge. This is the early Fifty's.

Which is Dyke Lodge is that the large house at the bottom of Pilot St, if so where are the gardens that Gertrude Lawrence designed.

Gertrude Lawrence was an actress. Gertrude Jekyll was the landscape architect .