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Forum: Heritage and History 05-11-2015, 00:35
Replies: 2
Views: 3
Posted By JoanR
Re: evacuees 1939

They probably hadn't had time to get anything organized so early in the war. We were the middle one in a terrace of five houses, and each of the five took one boy. Maybe it was the same situation, a...
Forum: Heritage and History 03-11-2015, 19:32
Replies: 2
Views: 3
Posted By JoanR
evacuees 1939

We had an evacuee with us on Barnfield Street from September 1939. His name was Bernard, he was from Salford and attended St. Anne's RC school in Cobham Road.
I was told much later that a school was...
Forum: Heritage and History 15-01-2013, 00:30
Replies: 377
Views: 28,584
Posted By JoanR
Re: Spire farm development

It's a lovely photo of the time, and thanks for posting it, Ataylo. The milk cart is as I remember, with the large wheels and the curved rail at the side. Your father always wore that flat cap as...
Forum: Heritage and History 13-01-2013, 21:00
Replies: 377
Views: 28,584
Posted By JoanR
Re: Spire farm development

Ataylo, we moved to Cobham Road in the summer of 1946, and it is from then that I remember Jim delivering our milk with his horse and cart for several years. Does that fit in with when your father...
Forum: Heritage and History 04-01-2013, 20:40
Replies: 19
Views: 1,361
Posted By JoanR
Re: St Annes RC Church

Thanks for posting the map, Susie. The area of St. Anne's and that part of Cobham Rd. (Street) appears to be open fields in 1890. It could be that the Barnfield area covered that whole district if...
Forum: Heritage and History 04-01-2013, 11:59
Replies: 19
Views: 1,361
Posted By JoanR
Re: St Annes RC Church

That's interesting information about St. Anne's. If the school was built in 1899, would the land owned by the Hargreaves family simply be fields prior to that? The newer houses across the road...
Forum: Heritage and History 28-12-2012, 20:58
Replies: 19
Views: 1,361
Posted By JoanR
Re: St Annes RC Church

There is some information about St. Anne's Church on the Genuki site. I quote from the site: "The mission was founded by the famous Fr. Robert Holmes, afterwards Canon of the diocese. It was begun in...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 21-11-2012, 11:34
Replies: 39
Views: 1,761
Posted By JoanR
Re: Anyone got tales to tell about childhood chrismas.

It was the Accrington New Jerusalem church, the Sunday School on Hargreaves Street.
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 19-11-2012, 20:08
Replies: 39
Views: 1,761
Posted By JoanR
Re: Anyone got tales to tell about childhood chrismas.

When I was at Benjamin Hargreaves School in Standard 1, Miss Wilson was the teacher. As Christmas neared we were asked to bring jelly and blancmange packets for a party. There was a cooking stove at...
Forum: Heritage and History 03-11-2012, 20:28
Replies: 377
Views: 28,584
Posted By JoanR
Re: Spire farm development

Horses played an important part in the life of the town at one time. We got milk from one of the farms up Sandy Lane and it was delivered by horse and small cart. The driver was a man called Jim. My...
Forum: Heritage and History 02-11-2012, 19:09
Replies: 377
Views: 28,584
Posted By JoanR
Re: Spire farm development

Thanks for the information about Field House Farm, Retlaw. We used to see a woman outside the house sometimes. She could have been the mother of the boys you knew.
The college on Sandy Lane wasn't...
Forum: Heritage and History 01-11-2012, 16:48
Replies: 377
Views: 28,584
Posted By JoanR
Re: Spire farm development

Field House Farm is the one I remember from when we walked around Leemings Pad in the nineteen forties. I never knew its name. Would it have been a ruin then? It seemed substantial from the path but...
Forum: Heritage and History 30-10-2012, 20:53
Replies: 377
Views: 28,584
Posted By JoanR
Re: Spire farm development

Rupertbear, thank you for your clarification of the woods. When we were children we used to walk from Barnfield Street up Sandy Lane, and turn right alongside High Riley Cottages. That way led to a...
Forum: Heritage and History 05-08-2012, 17:59
Replies: 20
Views: 1,814
Posted By JoanR
Re: New Jerusalem Church Abbey St.

My thanks to everyone for all this help. Susie and Margaret, thank you for your links. I could spend hours looking at these old photographs, and Atarah, thank you for posting the photos. Bob, I'll...
Forum: Heritage and History 04-08-2012, 19:55
Replies: 20
Views: 1,814
Posted By JoanR
New Jerusalem Church Abbey St.

This may be a very elementary question but how do I locate specific photos on the site? I'm looking for the old New Jerusalem Church Abbey St. I attended the Sunday School on Hargreaves St. in the...
Forum: Heritage and History 23-06-2012, 21:53
Replies: 38
Views: 4,481
Posted By JoanR
Re: coach house, ascot way (broad oak fold)

Dawnie, thank you for posting the maps. We used to play in the area of the old quarry, although I didn't know then that's what it was. There was a grassy hill which we would slide down and I was in...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 16-06-2012, 02:12
Replies: 34
Views: 2,810
Posted By JoanR
Re: Cubs, Brownies, Scouts or Girl Guides, which were you?

I know this is an old post but I'm a newish member and just catching up. The Philip on Barnfield St. is Philip Edleston. He was a friend of my brother. His father had a grocer's shop in Plantation...
Forum: Heritage and History 24-05-2012, 02:21
Replies: 96
Views: 8,113
Posted By JoanR
Re: Warner Street, Accrington

Thanks maxthecollie and Retlaw for corroborating my information about the location of Hargreaves Street. I remember Jack Sagar very well. His wife was the superintendent, if that's the right term, of...
Forum: Heritage and History 23-05-2012, 21:09
Replies: 96
Views: 8,113
Posted By JoanR
Re: Warner Street, Accrington

I remember the houses in Hargreaves St. as we entered the Sunday School across from them. I think Mr. and Mrs. Sagar, who attended the church, lived on Hargreaves St. near there. Hope I'm not getting...
Forum: Heritage and History 23-05-2012, 18:59
Replies: 96
Views: 8,113
Posted By JoanR
Re: Warner Street, Accrington

I remember some of these shops very well, from the forties and fifties. The people who owned Hopwood's attended New Jerusalem Church and Sunday School, when I did. Their son Peter was a bit older...
Forum: Heritage and History 21-05-2012, 23:50
Replies: 38
Views: 4,481
Posted By JoanR
Re: coach house, ascot way (broad oak fold)

Atarah, do you know the date of the photo in post #4? Both it and the photo in post #6 look as though there would be houses for more than two families. Some of the buildings could have been farm work...
Forum: Heritage and History 21-05-2012, 18:13
Replies: 38
Views: 4,481
Posted By JoanR
Re: coach house, ascot way (broad oak fold)

This is my first post to the forum although I've been reading the entries for some time. I'm very interested in the Broad Oak Fold thread as we lived in the top part of Barnfield St., near Sandy...
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