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Gallery

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  Photos marked Now and Then also have a modern photo for comparison
 
 

A Thornton Scene

                                                                                                                 

 

 

 

Baines Endowed School

 

2 photographs

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Burn Naze / Thornton FC

                                                                                                                 

                                                                              

 

 

 

Burn Naze Crossing - c1907

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Burn Naze School

                                                                                                                

3 photographs 

 

 

Christ Church

                                                                                                                

3 photographs

 

 

Church Lane / Road 

                                                                                                                

2 photographs

 

 

Downings Meadow, Stanah - 1947

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Farm Workers at Marsh Mill

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Fleetwood Road and Chapel

                                                                                                                

2 photographs 

 

 

Four Lane End - 1950

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Gala Day - 1907

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Gala Day - 1909

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Gala Day - 1932

                                                                                                                

9 photographs

 

 

Gala Day - 1955

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Gala Day Morris Dancers - 1927

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Gala Day - Undated

                                                                                                                

10 photographs

 

 

Hawthorne Road

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

 

ICI Workers

                                                                                                                

4 photographs

 

 

 

Lawson Lane / Road

                                                                                                                

4 photographs

 

 

Marsh House Farm - 4th September 1925

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

 

Marsh House Farm Milk Delivery Van - c1914

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Marsh Mill

                                                                                                                

6 photographs

 

Marsh Mill - c1900

                                                                                                                

Now and Then

 

 

 

Motor Train, Burn Naze Halt

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Nippy's at Christ Church - c1931

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Occupation Road - c1907

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Parr's Cottage

                                                                                                                 

 

 

 

Pleasant Grove

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Prize Winning Thornton Shire Horse

 

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Raikes Road

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

School Road

                                                                                                                

 

 

Skippool

                                                                                                                

2 photographs

 

 

Station Road

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Swarbrick Farm - Four Lane Ends

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Tarngate Cottage - 1977

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Temperance Bar

                                                                                                                

Now and Then

 

The Avenue - Thornton Vicarage

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

The Building of Sacred Heart Church Hall

                                                                                                                

Now and Then

 

 

The Thornton Lads - 1917

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

 

 

Thornton - 1904

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Thornton - c1904

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Thornton - 1930's

 

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Thornton Cleveleys Fire Brigade

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

 

Thornton Library

                                                                                                                

2 Photographs

 

 

Thornton Railway Crossing

 

 

                                                                                                                     

Thornton Station

                                                                                                                

 

2 photographs

 

 

 

Thornton Village

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Thornton Village - c1905

                                                                                                                

Now and Then

 

 

Thornton Village - c1905

                                                                                                                

Now and Then

 

 

Underbank Road

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

 

Victoria Road

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Victoria Road East

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Woodlands Avenue

                                                                                                                

2 photographs