Re: DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington
 

hi , i think i may know you as i also lived at dyke nook from 1970 to 1979
i just took a vertual tour around the old place and was sad to see the extent of disrepair the grounds where in....

Re: DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington
 

i used to live in dyke nook when it was a childrens home. love that house.few harmless ghosts as well!!!!

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.

Re: DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington
 

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.

Re: DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington
 

Not totally sure claytonx but in your days of walking along Whalley Road, it could still have been a private house, think it became a childrens home in the mid seventies, I get this feeling that the last tenant was a guy called Stubbs, could have been John Stubbs but I not sure

Re: DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington
 

Good answer but not the one I am looking for.

There are a lot of large houses either side of the road from Oakleigh to the Greyhound pub some with very large gardens.

Re: DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington
 

its the big house on the left before Ribblesdale Ave coming from Clayton then there are a few cottages next to it up to the Ribblesdale junction.

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, house, built in its place? Dyke Nook Lodge is next to it. Dyke Nook is a wonderful, now privately owned house, built in 1907and just oozing with character.

Re: DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington
 

Thanks Shurm. and Atarah

Re: DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington
 

No worries, the reason I don't think many people noticed it was because it had massive wooden gates at the front which were usually closed and a big high wall.

Re: DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington
 

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

Re: DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington
 

Hi Atarah,

Still here.....still interested in anything of the Barnes family, all my years of research has confirmed my Barnes ancestors in Accrington and lots of links......
Would love to know of anything you've found

Re: DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington
 

Whinside house was owned by Jonathan Barnes and his wife Mary Adeline nee Kenyon in 1890 and beyond. He was the son of Joseph and Ann Barnes who lived nearby in Dykenook house.....during the same period.

Cheers,
Robyn

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 photo that one of your rellies who lived in Canada had in his possession, now perhaps his family has it. Its your Barnes family, photo taken outside Whinside. A huge area of what we know as Whalley Road was known as Dyke Nook, some of it known as Lower Dyke Nook, which is where the house known as Hirstwood stood. From a 1976 newspaper article which I found "by pure chance" yesterday, whilst looking for something else, I am able to give you lots of family detail! More to follow .....
Dyke Nook House was around the Marlborough Club area of Whalley Rd and demolished late 1930's.

Re: DYKE NOOK, Whalley Road, Accrington
 

Hi Atarah,

Thank you so much for thinking of me.....Yes, I do have that photograph, received it a while ago, showing Joseph and Ann and their children about 1856. Had to check the Tree and there it is.....
Looking forward to anything at all which you may think interesting, thanks again. By the by, I have written against this photograph, Whinside Lower Dyke Nook.
Do you know who the Canadian connection was? I know Frank Dennison Barnes and family came from BC......

His son wrote the following:
In the case of Dyke Nook – there was Lower Dyke Nook, Dyke Nook Cottages & Dyke Nook itself and in 1909 or so MacAlpine built Dyke Nook Lodge.


Cheers Robyn