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Fylde Folk: Moss or Sand First Edition

Fylde Folk - Moss or Sand

by Kathleen Eyre

Paperback 104 pages (First Edition August 24, 1970)
Paperback: 104 pages
Publisher: Kathleen Eyre (24 Aug 1970)
ISBN-10: 0950137308
ISBN-13: 978-0950137308

(Second Impression, November 1970)
Publisher: Brewer & Son, Chorley
ISBN: 0950137308

Reprinted in 1979


Fylde Folk - Moss or Sand 1970

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 CONTENTS
MEN OF THE MOSS Page 9
  Marton Moss in the 18th century. Marton Mere. Practical jokes.
  Old customs — May Boughing and Jolly-Ladding. 19th century
  characters.
THE MELLINGS, AN OLD FISHING FAMILY 16
  Wresting a living from the sea. The lifeboat. Cottage life at the
  Lytham Manor (now St. Annes).
KILLING THE PIG 24
  "Fleet" Parkinson, the Marton Moss pig-sticker, visits Kiln House Farm, St. Annes.
BOISTEROUS FARMER JOHNNY AND HIS GENTLE MARTHA 29
  Memories of Johnny Singleton and his family of Kiln House Farm.
THE WHITEWASHED SCHOOL AT HEYHOUSES 34
  An inundation of the sea, 1720. Cottage lessons for poor girls. New
  schoolhouse, 1869. Memories of a hundred years ago.
IN SERVICE WITH THE OLD SQUIRE 39
  Heyhouses scholars in the 1890's. The Anyon family. First Lytham-
  Blackpool railway, 1863. Building of St. Annes Church. The old
  Squire. A settled way of life.
THREE BACHELORS OF BALLAM 46
  The Whiteside brothers of Bridge Farm, Ballam.
A LITTLE COUNTRY STATION 54
  Moss Side Station in Victorian times.
JACK AND JINNY 59
  An old Moss Side couple.
THE SHOOTING PARTY 62
  The Twelfth Night Shooting Party at Bray's Farm, Moss Side.
ROLLING STONES 65
  Tramps, Tinkers, Bobbin-Women, Pedlars, Beggars and Musicians.
CAMPING THE NEIGHBOURS 70
  Memories 0f visits to an old Moss Side couple.
THE WEEKLY SHOPPING EXPEDITION INTO LYTHAM 76
  From Moss Side to Lytham by horse and long-cart. Tommy and
  Margaret Harrison of Moss Side Hall Farm.
THE PACKMAN 79
  "Owd Duffy" and "Young Duffy". The Packman's rounds through
  the Fylde.
SIXTEEN TO A COTTAGE 81
  Marton Moss memories of the "Fleet" Parkinsons of "The Home-
  stead". Life in service at South Heys Farm, Ansdell. Candlemas
  contracts. The Sparrow Tax.
FOLDS FARM, BETWEEN THE SHOVELS AND MAD NOOK 89
  The old Moss lingo. Folds Farm and the Cartmell family. "Owd
  Bonk". Aunt Grace, the moss midwife. Family life at the farm.
  Dances in the shippon. Local characters. Old Betsy Goose. Tall
  clocks and low ceilings.
CROSS SLACK FARM AND HAMLET, ST.ANNES 97
  The last of the old cobble-and-thatch homesteads in Lytham St.Annes. Gilletts Farm and Hamlet Life.

  ILLUSTRATIONS 
Lytham in the 1830's
 Shrimper's wife at the cottage door, Clifton Street, Lytham, in the late 1860's
 Fancy Lodge, Heyhouses
 Hawker on the Moss. Pen sketch by Marjorie H. Snowden
 Eaves, Farm, Church Road, St. Annes, from a water colour by Walter Eastwood
 Tied Farm Cottages, Twiggy Lane, St. Annes in 1907, from a watercolour by Harold Partington
 A country group at Kellamergh, near Warton, early in the century
 St. Annes in 1885 with fishing boats moored
 Mellings' Cottages. Photograph by Frank Dean
 Martha (Mrs. Johnny Singleton) and the servant-woman at the rear of Kiln House Farm
 Kiln House Farm today. Photograph by Frank Dean
 "Bonk" Wade in his 83rd year
 Charity Cottages, Staining. Pen sketch by Marjorie H. Snowden
 The Old Whitewashed School, Heyhouses
 Thatching at Fancy Lodge, Heyhouses
 "Noah's Ark" (Cross Lane Farm), St. Annes
Cottage of "Owd Jemmy Cakes". Photograph by Frank Dean
Shepherd Lodge. Photograph by Frank Dean
"Owd Pey Bob's" cottage, Heyhouses
Bridge Farm, Ballam. Photograph by Jean Hanson
The Hay Cart
Folds Farmhouse, Marton Moss. Pen sketch by John Green
Thatching at Ballam
Hambleton Peg and Post Windmill. Pen sketch by D. A. Leigh.
Single-track railway line, Wrea Green to Bradkirk. Photographed in 1928 by J. E. N. Ashworth.
Old Railway Hotel, Lytham, with original Preston-and-Wyre terminus. Photograph by Frank Dean.
Last steam train to stop at Moss Side and Wrea Green. Photograph by Frank Dean.
Shell Hill Cottages, Saltcotes. Photograph by Dr. Gerald Sumner.
Neddy and Granny Fisher at the door of their Cross Slack Cottage.
Old Shovels Inn and Folds Row Cottages, Marton Moss.
Dun Cottage, Marton Moss. Photograph by Frank Dean.
Cross Slack Farm, St. Annes. Photograph by Frank Dean.
Keeper's (Nancy's) Cottage, Division Lane, St. Annes, from a pen sketch by Peter C. Miller.
Singleton Windmill in the 1920's.


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