POSTCARDS OF LANCASHIRE
AND NORTH WEST
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| Warrington Bridge, Arthur Davidson's Series £10 | Training College, Warrington, Arthur Davidson's Series £5.50 |
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| Southport, Helter Skelter, Water Chute and Flying Machine, V305-7, RAPID PHOTO. E. C. Postmarked May '09 £28 | WALNEY BRIDGE, BARROW-IN-FURNESS. Real Photo £8 |
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| PLANTERS MARGARINE WORKS, BROMBOROUGH PORT CHES. W.J. McCULLOCK, 561 NEW CHESTER RD., ROCK FERRY. Insets labelled: The Wood Box Dept., Switch Board Power House, The Blending Room, The Dairy, Packing "Silver Tray", The Warehouse, Testing Oil The Warehouse, Power House, The Dining Hall. SOLD | DALTON HOUSE, STRAMONGATE SCHOOL, KENDAL. The reverse is a printed postcard to request the current school prospectus, addressed to Wilfred Sessions, B. Sc. J. P., presumably the Head Teacher. £4 |
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| Real Photo, ST JOHNS FIELD DAY No 3 AUG. 1. 08. Is this Lancs? Can anyone identify the location? There's a reasonable chance the street centre right is Warton Street. SOLD
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Real Photo. LIVERPOOL ROAD , WALMER BRIDGE. C. E. PEEL. Medium sized skeleton postmark for Walmer Bridge SOLD |
These postcards of the area around Bickerstaffe, Nr Ormskirk, are added for reference, and the interest of local families. Comments and additional information would be gratefully received.
They are not for sale.
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| Barrow Nook, Bickerstaffe, by Shaw`s corner circa 1910, looking in the direction of Coach Road. The bystanders are, left to right: Hetty Shaw, Mrs Smith (Bob Smith's mother), Billy Ashcroft, Billy Taylor (with bike), Tom Yates, Billy Files, Marie Weston (cousin to Mo Huyton), Annie Yates (from Coach Road gates, married Albert Gaskell), Jack Shaw in foreground, Billy Smith leaning on hedge, Billy Briers (middle front). At window Elsie Fyles, lived there. | Barrow Nook, Bickerestaffe, looking in the direction of Hall Lane. The cyclists are left Joseph Shaw, right Ivy James Lyon |
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| Bickerstaffe School Children Morris Dancers, 1910. Bottom line: second from right, Lily Shaw; bottom line third from left, Hetty Shaw. Can anyone identify any others? | Bickerstaffe School Children Maypole Dancers, 1910. Fifth from left, Hannah (cousin to Lily Shaw). Others: ? Bradshaw, Janie Rothwell. Can anyone identify any others? The location is the School Playfield where the Tea Party used to be, near the Vicarage Garden. |
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| Bickerstaffe School Children Morris Dancers, taken outside Holy Trinity Church Vicarage. Photo Wragg, photographer, Ormskirk. Second row up, third, Hannah Eccleston; bottom row, second from right, Janey Staines. Many older Bickerstaffe residents will have been taught by Miss Staines at Bickerstaffe C.E. School. She became a legend, and kept alive the tradition of Morris Dancing at the annual children`s Tea Party, always held on the second Saturday in June. Of her colleagues Nellie Woods trained the Maypole dancers. Can other children be identified in the photograph? | The Photograph of neighbours round about, is taken outside The Pear tree Inn, Melling, one Bank Holiday. The employees are: left, Peter Owen, son of the woman (landlady) who lived there, killed in World war 1; right, Mr Manchester who lived nearby. Front row centre, smoking pipe, Austin Lyon, and on his left (to the right in the photo) his brother Ivy James Lyon. Can others be identified? |
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| Long Lane, Aughton, near Ormskirk, with a view of Trafalgar House on the left. | Long Lane, Aughton, near Ormskirk, with a view of Spring Bank on the left. |
The postcards of Bickerstaffe, and the Melling postcard, are from the collection of George (1907-1885) and Lily Shaw (1900-1991) of Barrow Nook. Information supplied by Lily Shaw.
The provenance of the Aughton postcards is Jim and Alice Shaw (family link to Trafalgar House residents up until 1937).
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