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Forum: Questions and Answers 09-05-2013, 05:47
Replies: 117
Views: 17,233
Posted By Atarah
Re: DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington

At the time of the opening of the gardens there was two inscribed memorial panels on the pillars of the entrance gates. The inscription on one of them read "Borough of Accrington. This garden was...
Forum: Questions and Answers 09-05-2013, 05:39
Replies: 117
Views: 17,233
Posted By Atarah
Re: DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington

This is from a 1939 newspaper - "subsequently owing to the death of Mrs Jonathan Barnes, her residence, Dyke Nook, came onto the market, and in the wisdom of the Council, though not without...
Forum: Questions and Answers 08-05-2013, 13:31
Replies: 117
Views: 17,233
Posted By Atarah
Re: DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington

Hi Robyn, right! If you have the photo, does that mean you know the details of all on the photo and further details about who some of them married? Pointless duplicating things, unless ... you...
Forum: Questions and Answers 08-05-2013, 06:33
Replies: 117
Views: 17,233
Posted By Atarah
Re: DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington

Hi Robyn, will have to send the family details (as written in the newspaper) later today. The chappie who sent the photo to The Observer was Mr Walton E Barnes (I know he is def one of "yours") of...
Forum: Questions and Answers 08-05-2013, 05:42
Replies: 117
Views: 17,233
Posted By Atarah
Re: DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington

Hi Robyn, nice to know you are still interested in your family tree. I am just "worried" that what I stumbled on yesterday, you may already know of. Were you aware of or, have you seen the faded...
Forum: Questions and Answers 07-05-2013, 19:19
Replies: 117
Views: 17,233
Posted By Atarah
Re: DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington

Hi, good description above from Shurm. Have you ever noticed where a lovely, detached house was completely knocked down in the past 12/18th mths (?) and a new larger but very modern, out of keeping,...
Forum: Questions and Answers 07-05-2013, 12:17
Replies: 117
Views: 17,233
Posted By Atarah
Re: DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington

Hi Robin, two years have passed since you replied to this posting. Are you still wanting info on the Barnes family? Have found a bit for you, quite by chance today.
Forum: Questions and Answers 17-11-2004, 09:56
Replies: 117
Views: 17,233
Posted By Atarah
DYKE NOOK and Rawcliffes

Hi, what christian names are "yours"

Atarah
Forum: Questions and Answers 16-11-2004, 08:49
Replies: 117
Views: 17,233
Posted By Atarah
DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington

Hi, The Blake family are a very important part of Accringtons history. Mr John Blake when aged 18 (in 1854) invented, and afterwards patented, a scientific steam pressure reducing valve. He was not a...
Forum: Questions and Answers 15-11-2004, 13:46
Replies: 117
Views: 17,233
Posted By Atarah
DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington

Hi Barnsie, where do you live exactly? Who is/was a Mr Barnes, related to the same family as you, calling himself, Mr Walton E Barnes and who lived at the house we know at Whinside, near the little...
Forum: Questions and Answers 22-08-2003, 08:26
Replies: 117
Views: 17,233
Posted By Atarah
Post Re: DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington

Oh cool! Brill!  So your family are connected to the Blake triplets then?  Hilary died not too long ago I believe.
The house has now been bought.  I have the contact number if you...
Forum: Questions and Answers 07-08-2003, 22:30
Replies: 117
Views: 17,233
Posted By Atarah
Post DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington

Does anyone know when this house was lived in by Sir William Cocker and roughly when it became a childrens home?

The house was designed by a very well known architect, Walter Brierley, who also...
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