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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 work with the proliferation of the cotton mills. I suggest the photo was taken in or near Manchester, it does seen to be a grandeous background for any smaller town. They did live in rural Lancashire at one time, in the Ribble valley I think, I have met a cousin of mine only recently and this information was supplied to me. However again many thanks for your interest and reply.
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 work with the proliferation of the cotton mills. I suggest the photo was taken in or near Manchester, it does seen to be a grandeous background for any smaller town. They did live in rural Lancashire at one time, in the Ribble valley I think, I have met a cousin of mine only recently and this information was supplied to me. However again many thanks for your interest and reply.
I feel sure that with diligent searching of censuses, this couple can be found. There is a CD on sale which tells where, in 1881, the majority of people of a particular surname lived. This is a surname associated with North Lancashire & Cumbria, although there are some over here in the Fylde. There are none of this name listed in the 1951 Accrington directory. I agree that she does have the appearaance of being in service. He looks as if he is in his working clothes, so the photo was likely taken close by where they lived at the time.
Mistake on my part. There is a Henry George Haythornthwaite, a wholesale fruiterer living at 'Highbury', a splendid house on Queens Rd between Clifton Ave & Marlborough Rd in 1951. He had premises on the market and in Willows Lane. I suspect the photo is not of this house.
Ive sent a PM to NSHA to get him to look at the forum.
Ive sent a PM to NSHA to get him to look at the forum.
I remember being at school with a Susan Haythornthwaite probably the High School in the late 50s/early 60s. She was born 1944 according to Lancs BMD.
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Bob I have several comments on this. First I'm assuming you mean on the north side of Queens Road as most of the houses on the south side are pretty ordinary. I used to live when young in one on the south side between Marlborough Road and Nutter Road and I wouldn't say any of the houses opposite were what you might call "splendid". The bigger ones were between Marlborough Road and Whalley Road and I don't think any of the Queen's Road houses are as old as the one in the photo. Also most of the ones on the north side are of red brick. so I'm struggling to picture where this house called Highbury was/is. Checked on Google Streetview, still can't picture it.
The name is question isn't Haythorthwaite, but Haythornwhite.
I know Margaret, but in post 13 the originator of this thread says:
It would still be interesting to find out where it was taken. There is some information on the web to the name Haythornwhite and the name did originate in Lancashire and has various endings.
Clutching at straws maybe, but names have been known to change over time.
Just thought that Bob had got the name mixed up.
Depends what you define as an Iron Works, most of the local engineering firms have been called Iron or Brass works at one time or another. Globe, Whittakers, Langs, Ewbank, Antley, Spring, [demolished to make way for market hall], Croft St, Star, Bull Bridge, Pioneer, Rothwells at Church.
Retlaw.