Now I've decided that this week I'm going to take 2 different answers to the Quiz so I might have told you you were wrong but actually under the new rules you were right. The reason is that I'm not sure which one is the correct answer and as they are next to each other .. it's near enough. See thats clears as mud !!!
Where in Thornton Am I? ... and the answer is
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The old barn at the corner of Stanah Road and Underbank
Now I had it as Stanah House Farm but a lot of you thought it was Stanah Hill Farm so I'm going to take both answers.
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In 1st place .. John
In 2nd place .. Brenda
In 3rd place .. Mike
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Now I have to give a special mention to Mike's answer as he told me where it was but also the time and date it was taken and what it was taken with !! Turns out he has some software to find it out but he had me going there for a bit.
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hi melanie i feel i must say sorry for freaking you out i told joanne {the mrs} what i was going to do and she said no, but me being me i went ahead and did it anyway. she also helped me with my answer lol.
ReplyDeleteHi Mike
ReplyDeleteIf it makes you feel any better I'd have done it to you in an instant :-D
I wonder is that a woman thing, or is it just your evil streek lol. i tend to think a bit of both.
ReplyDeleteThats ours!!! Its Stanah Hill Farm,previously known as THe Drumonds". Stanah House Farm is were Adams has the Stables,I thought that bit had been knocked down for the Barn conversion.Shows how close a family we are.
ReplyDeleteHi Mike, do get into the workings of the female mind, we could be here forever(Thats if we could get a word in)
Hi james i know better than try and get into the femail mind, that,s it time to go before i get into trouble.
ReplyDeletehi all . a couple of things , sorry a bit off topic , does anybody remember thornton cleveleys fire station ? speaking to a lady in the taxi a day or two ago who was asking about it . next i was talking to an elderley neighbour today , her uncle used to keep a farm at four lane ends (where the bank used to be , the nat west ) his name was Tom Ball . anybody have any memories ? (james ?) she was also saying her mum was born in pleasant grove 1900ish there used to be a newsagent in pleasant grove with a large lump of rock outside that the horse riders used to use to re-mount when they had been for a paper !! her memories are amazing and she probably has a million others , that need putting down on paper (or computer) you got that lap top yet melanie ? cheers all regards andy
ReplyDeleteHi,Andy,Possibly the fire station was opposite the old council offices, During WW2 the AFS used to meet there, ( Mostly old blokes on bikes with Stirup Pumps,Buckets,and the odd car or two.) The Home Guard assembled at Poulton Laundry in Queens Square.My dad was the engineer there after the war when he left the Navy, I used to work there in the school holidays in the Carpet and Dry Cleaning Dept. i think iv'e mentioned before George Formby was the L/Cpl; Dispatch Rider the H.G. it was said that was the only way he could get petrol for his motor bikes,I Remember the Lecture hall being built, and Lambs Rd being widened to become the main rd;although School Rd;had right of way right up to the 1950s
ReplyDeleteRe; Pleasant Grove, My Great uncle Albert had a small farm there in the 30s, Kept horses, carted for the local councils,Incidentally that area was know as Fisher Fould My maternal grand parents were Fishers lived around this area for centuries.You never know i may be an absent land owner.( Pigs might Fly)
andy, james some interesting stuff from you both there a lot of it news to me and all good stuff, as andy say,s it all need writing up and kept on the site. thornton cleveleys fire station! it never even crossed my mind that we would of had one {but not a lot does cross my mind} thanks for posting.
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ReplyDeleteGreat information as usual and as soon as I get my act together I'll go and get those stories.
hi all . theres probably a lot more to come from my neighbour although shes 80 odd shes a memory like an elephant !!!! im advertising in my taxi now for anything old regarding thornton , pictures , postcards , maps etc and up to now theres been a lot of interest so with a bit of luck we could get something interesting . james i live in the middle of fishers fold , i live on devonshire ave . ive got this theory that theres more stuff in peoples attics , sheds etc than theres ever been put into books , internet etc . there must be loads of old photos sat around gathering dust of when auntie alice was gala queen in the 1920s/30s . i only told my neighbour yesterday that im really into my local history , 2 hours later she appears with a copy of porters history of the fylde of lancashire !! which id been looking for months !! and theres a copy next door ! its about us all asking as many people as poss , and we will come up with some fantastic stuff for the site . cheers all regards andy
ReplyDeleteHi Andy, I,ll be an Octogenarian in 18 months and I've still got" All My Chairs at home",Re; Devonshire Ave, I remember some of the houses being built.Dont know how long you've lived there but my best mate and brother inlaw Taffy Cooper live there some 15 years or so ago.
ReplyDeletere Rose Queens;first I can remember(early 1940s) was Aida Burgess lived at Thornton Hall Farm (her Dad was Head Cowman)Then Joan Richardson
Mid 40s lived at Stanah Villas farm,(Her sister Mary Married Bill Ross),also Beryl the hairdresser down trunnah, ask your friend if she remembers them,, and did she go to the Church Rd Youth Club? if she did she would know me. My dad was the Chief engineer on the Deap sea Fleetwood trawler Davara which was sunk by a German sub on the 14.Sept 1939.
They got into a leaking lifeboat and were picked up a Canadian freighter The Empire Tobacco, and landed in Liverpool,I remember my dad coming home with no sock, they were used to plug up the leaking lifeboat, my dad then joined the Navy and became Chief Engineer on a Minesweeper stationed at Hartlepool,and we moved there i think i was the only child that was "Evacuated from the countryside into a war Zone!we lived on the sea front opposite the openair baths used to creep in under the barbed wire i learned to swim there even though there was a war going on it was an idilic 2 years. we lived across the estuary from Sunderland and was bombed every night,I won a County Scholarship whilst i was there and came back here and transfered to Baines grammar School
Futher thought on the fire station, Hill house had a Fire Station and an Ambulance station after the war car'nt say if they there when the MOD had the site. Dont remember a farm
at 4 Lane ends though.
James thats amazing mate !! ive lived on devonshire ave since 1976 , the one with to many trees !! opposite the shops , where the kids seem to have a hobby of kicking fence panels to death !! usually about once or twice a week !. did taffy your mate/brother in law used to frequent the ashley ? thats the only taffy i can remember . i know Beryl off trunnah myself quite well , my mum used to go in her hairdresser`s all the time when she was well enough . my neighbour is jessie pye . her husband was Jimmy used to work on the buses i think after he came out of the army . Jimmy sadly died about three or four years ago . top fella was jimmy , the only time i ever got him telling his stories of WW11 was at my 21st birthday party in 1985 , my old man got him a little tidly (to say the least) and he told myself and all my mates these tales of what he`d been through in north africa i think (its a long time ago) and we all sat there mesmorised at what he was telling us , not one of us spoke we just let him do all the talking , and every one of us said after he`d gone home `thank christ it aint like that any more` . a couple of mates had been over in the falklands a couple of years earlier and they came back with some terrible tales but what jimmy told us was a different world !! the only one i know from the farms up stannah was the hodgkinsons cause i was at millfield with the daughter marian . never gave it a thought about the ici fire station i`ll mention that next time i see the lady in my taxi . cheers all regards andy
ReplyDeleteHI Andy, The name Pye dos'nt ring a bell.I think the Taff You speak of was My wifes and my mates father labour through and through, taxi driver at one time, Small chap with glasses,drank in the Ashley because it was the best beer around here'
ReplyDeleteMy mate Irwin, drove an Artic; for Harold Council for a while later worked at Selafield,on the commitee of the Cleveleys Legion club,Good snooker player was the spitting image of his dad.Married to a woman named Thelma, enough said about her, his dad lived with them at one time.
I was abroad most of the time so did'nt see much of them until the early 80s.I remember old Tommy Hodkinson at the Bottom of Raikes,had an old railway carrage in his yard,A Mr & Mrs Beswick lived in it, she was the local district nurse he worked in Richardsons Ironmongers in Poulton Square.