We will now traverse Moor Street proceeding along the north side .At the corner was Owen’s Tinker’s Shop and in passing let one say that the shops about this part of town had bay windows with small squares of glass, they also had their workshops underneath the shop whilst the shop doors were in two …
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An Ormskirk Diary Part 3
CHURCH STREET Let us now visit Church Street from the south side as already stated the Post Office attached to Wignalls grocery business was at the Moor Street corner the postal services were removed from Moor Street where there previously existed “The George and Dragon” with a weighing machine in the front. A clothing shop was next owned by Mr. …
AN ORMSKIRK DIARY PART 4
BURSCOUGH STREET We will now look at Burscough Street, after passing the “Old Clock” there was a small confectioners shop, the owner being very well built old lady named Mrs. Jackson, the window in which were displayed her confectionary was a bay window similar to those opposite with small panes of glass. Most of …
AN ORMSKIRK DIARY PART 5
RAILWAY ROAD We will now walk along Moor Street and have a look at Railway Road, or what was once called Coffin Row, the reason for it being called by this name is quite obvious for as you view the block of buildings on the railway side you will notice that the east …
Tawd Vale Scout Camp
On an overcast drizzly day in October 1932, as a wolf cub about to move up to the Scouts, I was fortunate to be able to attend the official opening of the Lathom Park Scout Camp,as it was then known, the ceremoney to be performed by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, accompanied by other Dignitaries. …
A Very Special Day
As a boy growing up in the thirties, in common with many of my generation, I had a great interest in railways and in particular the locomotives. Living at the north end of Liverpool we never saw the very famous locomotives that hauled the expresses from Lime Street station, the largest ever seen in our …
Carlisle’s Millenium Project
In the late summer I decided to have a day out visiting the new Roman Frontier Gallery in Carlisle’s Tullie House Museum. This was set up following the very succesful Millenium excavation near to the Museum and the Castle,thousands of aretefacts being unearthed, only a smaal fraction of which can be displayed at anyone time. …
Liverpools Old Dock
Recently I was fortunate to be able to reserve a place on a guided visit to Liverpool’s Old Dock of 1715. This had been excavated under the direction of Mr Jamie Quatermaine of Oxford Archaeology North. Meeting at the Maritime Museum, a ten minute walk took the group to Liverpool one, where a modern entrance, …
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