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Forum: General Community Talk 08-08-2008, 04:57
Replies: 30
Views: 6,873
Posted By nsha
Re: Woodnook Secondary Modern

This must have been somewhere around the years I was at Woodnook Secondary Modern. Live in Australia now.
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 31-10-2007, 04:33
Replies: 5
Views: 1,489
Posted By nsha
A snap from the past

I have come across an old photo of my father and friend, can anybody identify the background? ... and identify the car? ... and some idea of the year it was taken? it must be prior 1940
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 31-10-2007, 04:13
Replies: 31
Views: 3,947
Posted By nsha
Re: Please Identify

Hi Atarah,
Thank you for your reply re my 'photo, I have since found out that my great grandparents did live in other areas of Lancashire before they settled in Accrington. Probably due to the...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 29-09-2007, 21:56
Replies: 31
Views: 3,947
Posted By nsha
Re: Please Identify

Hi Accypete,

Many thanks accypete for your reply and inflormation. This is a great forum and through my post I was contacted by Marilyn J Wright who is a descendent of William and Elizabeth. It...
Forum: Introduce Yourself 07-04-2007, 05:43
Replies: 14
Views: 483
Posted By nsha
Unhappy No Contact

I live in Millaa Millaa Queensland Australia and last August I visited Accrington, having left Accrington in 1962 at the age of 19 I was interested in meeting people and hopefully meeting and talking...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 05-02-2006, 04:57
Replies: 44
Views: 4,308
Posted By nsha
Re: Howard & Bullough Toolroom 1940-1946

Hi Trevis2

Thank you for you reply, I left Accrington in 1962, I have been back several times and will return this year. My father worked in H @ B but not too much is know, he is dead now and I do...
Forum: General Chat 03-02-2006, 08:29
Replies: 120
Views: 5,190
Posted By nsha
Re: Mohamed cartoons.

Religions over the centuries have caused great sorrow, division and untold suffering of human beings. There are few who have had the courage to point out this appalling truth. That all human beings...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 03-02-2006, 07:57
Replies: 44
Views: 4,308
Posted By nsha
Re: Howard & Bullough Toolroom 1940-1946

My father worked there around this time, his name is Norman Haythorne.
Forum: General Chat 16-01-2006, 08:16
Replies: 46
Views: 1,473
Posted By nsha
Re: Ice Age

Please send some of your cold weather to Queensland
Forum: Accrington Stanley 01-12-2005, 05:37
Replies: 3
Views: 583
Posted By nsha
Nostalgia from the 1950's

I now live in Australia and have for many years, I want to attach a scan of what I think is the signatures of the Accrington Stanley Team of the 1950's. I found this only recently after many years....
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 29-03-2005, 05:40
Replies: 2
Views: 1,231
Posted By nsha
Question Woodnook Primary School

My name is Stuart Haythorne and I would like to contact anybody who attended Woodnook Primary School in the years 1947-51, to reminiscence and contact.
Forum: Questions and Answers 29-03-2005, 05:08
Replies: 0
Views: 308
Posted By nsha
Question Rain

When I lived in Accrington 1942-1962 it was wet, people have told me it is not the same, has the climate change? does Accrington get warmer days? more dry days? or perhaps more wet days? Would love...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 22-10-2004, 06:15
Replies: 31
Views: 3,947
Posted By nsha
Re: Please Identify

Hi Retlaw,
Thank you for the information and interest, I now understand that William and Betty Haythornwhite may have been born outside Accrington though they both died in Accrington. The surname...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 22-10-2004, 06:04
Replies: 31
Views: 3,947
Posted By nsha
Re: Please Identify

Hi Acrylic-bob,
Thank you for the information, I now remember that my Grandfather said his Father had lived or born elsewhere than Accrington. I was very young at the time probably under the age of...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 22-10-2004, 05:39
Replies: 31
Views: 3,947
Posted By nsha
Re: Please Identify

The photo of 115 Ormerod Street was much appreciated, it did bring back memories of Accrington, my Grandfather lived at 127 Ormerod and I often visited him. The light in the photo is nostalgic to me....
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 16-10-2004, 10:19
Replies: 31
Views: 3,947
Posted By nsha
Re: Please Identify

Thanks WillowTheWisp I know my grandfather lived at another address in Ormerod street than Betty and it seems safe to assume that this is the area where the family lived, on the silk tassel the...
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 16-10-2004, 06:36
Replies: 31
Views: 3,947
Posted By nsha
Re: Please Identify

Thank you Doug for the reply, here is the information, this is a photo of my great Grandfather William Haythornwhite and his wife Betty. Betty died in 1930 aged 81 this means she was born in 1849....
Forum: Introduce Yourself 14-10-2004, 00:05
Replies: 10
Views: 520
Posted By nsha
Re: Stuart

Many thanks to all those folks who took the trouble to say hello and welcome. I look forward to participating in the website.
Forum: Lost Friends / Family 10-10-2004, 08:23
Replies: 31
Views: 3,947
Posted By nsha
Please Identify

Hi , is there anyone able to identify the background of where this photo was taken in Accrington.thank you http://www.the-bee.com/
Forum: Introduce Yourself 10-10-2004, 07:48
Replies: 10
Views: 520
Posted By nsha
Post Stuart

My name is Stuart Haythorne and I was born in Accrington in 1942 I now live in North Queensland Australia and intend to visit Accrington in 2005, I would be pleased to contact anybody in Accrington...
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