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Forum: Questions and Answers 21-03-2018, 10:31

Replies: 40 Rutland Street Views: 41 Posted By Morecambe Ex Pat Re: Rutland Street Great photo Thanks, it is a few years since I have been up there but good to know that the climb is worth the effort. We are down there again, in a few days time, so may get the time to revisit...

Forum: Questions and Answers 21-03-2018, 07:33

Replies: 40 Rutland Street Views: 41 Posted By Morecambe Ex Pat Re: Rutland Street The shiny arch at the entrance to Peel Park looked very nice in the sunshine, were the carvings on the pillars to celebrate the millennium or something else? We didn't do the climb up onto the...

Forum: Questions and Answers 21-03-2018, 07:03

Replies: 40 Rutland Street Views: 41 Posted By Morecambe Ex Pat Re: Rutland Street You obviously haven't been to Morecambe for a while, the latest attraction is located at the Entrance to Happy Mount Park where a number of retired firemen can be seen trying to work out if they are...

Forum: Questions and Answers 20-03-2018, 14:36

Replies: 40 Rutland Street Views: 41 Posted By Morecambe Ex Pat Re: Rutland Street Don't suppose you remember that tenner you borrowed in 1972 either, do you :) We were down in Accrington for the weekend and had a wander up Avenue Parade, to Peel park. The story I heard was...

Forum: Questions and Answers 16-03-2018, 06:59

Replies: 40 Rutland Street Views: 41 Posted By Morecambe Ex Pat Re: Rutland Street It was the Sunday School Roll of Honour which was mentioned in an article you supplied a few years ago. The Hodgkinson, Clark, Baxter and Lofthouse Archive...

Forum: Questions and Answers 15-03-2018, 15:32

Replies: 40 Rutland Street Views: 41 Posted By Morecambe Ex Pat Re: Rutland Street Thanks are due to yourself and Bill for this then. Unfortunately, it was the Roll of Honour we were searching for but having photographed the plaque, it seemed a waste not to include it in our...

Forum: Questions and Answers 14-03-2018, 21:01

Replies: 40 Rutland Street Views: 41 Posted By Morecambe Ex Pat Re: Rutland Street It may have been John Simpson who dug out a plaque for us. It was a Roll of Honour from (I think) Avenue Parade Methodist Church. We had asked about it and he knew what we were referring to.

Forum: Questions and Answers 14-03-2018, 20:57

Replies: 40 Rutland Street Views: 41 Posted By Morecambe Ex Pat Re: Rutland Street The section of the Hodgkinson Clark website containing the info is not yet visible as it is a work in progress. I have been down in Accy for the past couple of days due to a family emergency but will...

Forum: Questions and Answers 13-03-2018, 06:53

Replies: 40 Rutland Street Views: 41 Posted By Morecambe Ex Pat Re: Rutland Street Thanks Retlaw, Our chap was William Chapman 1805 - 1904, Assistant manager in a print works, we think it was Broad Oak but the jury is still out. In 1881, he and his family lived at 10 Hollins...

Forum: Questions and Answers 12-03-2018, 18:26

Replies: 40 Rutland Street Views: 41 Posted By Morecambe Ex Pat Re: Rutland Street Back in Accrington and I am looking to confirm a bit of deduction. We have an 1891 census for Rough Lee Road Accrington, the houses are listed in order and we get to the unadopted road at the top. ...

Forum: Questions and Answers 12-03-2018, 09:59

Replies: 40 Rutland Street Views: 41 Posted By Morecambe Ex Pat Re: Rutland Street For the latest mystery location, we move to Ossy and a road I have never heard of. Is anyone familiar with Vale Lane Stanhill?

Forum: Questions and Answers 10-03-2018, 21:12

Replies: 40 Rutland Street Views: 41 Posted By Morecambe Ex Pat Re: Rutland Street There must have been hundreds of houses knocked down around there but where did all the people go?

Forum: Questions and Answers 10-03-2018, 15:13

Replies: 40 Rutland Street Views: 41 Posted By Morecambe Ex Pat Re: Rutland Street I knew all the roads 30 years or more back and still remember most of them. I too knew Adrian well as I did a lot of work for him but not on the street guide. He was a great bloke and I will...

Forum: Questions and Answers 10-03-2018, 12:10

Replies: 40 Rutland Street Views: 41 Posted By Morecambe Ex Pat Re: Rutland Street I did the same thing Phillip and now wish I had kept my well thumbed copy of Shurmer's Guide. I am plotting the co-ordinates of all of our census records onto a Google map and need all the help I can...

Forum: Questions and Answers 10-03-2018, 06:13

Replies: 40 Rutland Street Views: 41 Posted By Morecambe Ex Pat Re: Rutland Street Thanks Margaret, I used to deliver building materials around the Accrington, back in the last century and have delivered to most streets in the town. I still remember where most of them are but that...

Forum: Questions and Answers 09-03-2018, 18:26

Replies: 40 Rutland Street Views: 41 Posted By Morecambe Ex Pat Rutland Street I am pretty sure that Rutland Street was off Blackburn Road but can you please help in locating it exactly.

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