• Chair’s Report November 2024
• Clive Holden 1935-2024 – A Tribute by Jenny Ager
• Gleaned from the Account Ledgers of a Silverdale Village Shop: 1878-1937 – Sheila Jones
• Memories of Quicksilver – Richard Carter
• A Brief History of Warton Part II From the 16th to the 19th Century – Nina Gaubert
• Reports of Evening Meetings – Clive Holden, Gill Ribbons
• Notes and Queries – Awena Carter

• An Introduction by your New Chair – Nina Gaubert
• Carnforth Railwaymen and the General Strike of 1926 – Clive Holden
• A Brief History of Warton from the Domesday Book – Nina Gaubert
• A Visit to the Winter Gardens – Pam Davies
• Book Review – Sketches of Yealand by Mrs Ford (Helen Cordellia) – Clive Holden
• Reports of Evening Meetings – Clive Holden, Peter Baker, Andrew Davies and Pam Davies
• MLHS Lecture Programme 2024-2025

• Thoughts, Impressions and Reminiscences on the 40th Anniversary of the Mourholme Magazine of Local History – Jenny Ager, Clive Holden, Pauling Kiggins, Andrew Davies, Nina Gaubert, Awena Carter
• An Interview with Margaret Clarke – by Sheila Jones
• How the Townships Celebrated Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee on 22 June 1897- Nina Gaubert
• Lancaster’s Corrupt MP – Simon Williams
• Reports of Evening Meetings – Clive Holden, Andrew and Pam Davies

• 40 Years On (of Mourholme Local History Society) – Awena Carter
• Researching the Origins of the Silverdale Village Players in their Centenary Year – Keith Hildrew
• A History of the Waiting Room at Silverdale Station – Bill Robinson
• An Edwardian Elopement (from Silverdale) – Geoff Kerr

• Researching the Carnforth Branch of the Royal British Legion- Sheila Jones
• Tithe Maps: An Introduction – Simon Williams Warton with Lindeth Tithe Map – Pam Davies and Simon Williams Observations on the Silverdale Tithe Map – Geoff Woods.
• Saddler Murray – Clive Holden
• Leighton Beck Iron Furnace – Simon Williams
• Book Review: Levens in the Shadow of the Great War – Reviewed by Clive Holden

• Tithe Maps: An Introduction: – Simon Williams (Tithe Map explanation)
• Yealand Conyers and Yealand Redmayne Tithe Map Features – Andy Denwood.
• Local Field and Place Names: – Sheila Jones
• A Wartime Expedition: – Clive Holden
• Brian Bleasedale Part II: – Sheila Jones Brian lived in Warton and his recollections here and in issue 77 provide an interesting account spent in a changing Warton.
• J Fuller-Maitland – Ann Bond
• A visit to Mourholme Local History Society Archives – Jenny Williams

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• The Tenant of Borwick Hall – Andy Denwood
• Mourholme Castle Seized by the King – Simon Williams
• Brian Bleasedale: Part 1 – Sheila Jones
• Reports of Evening Meetings – Clive Holden
• Notes & Queries:
• Lancaster Canal: the Tramroad Link – Andrew Davies and Bill Robinson
• Millhead Football Club and Iodine Park – Simon Williams
• Hincaster Trailway Group: Trailway Histories – Bill Robinson

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• Warton Crag: Re-appraising an “Iron Age” Hill Fort: Part 2 – Kevin Grice
• Bums on Pews in the 17th and 18th Centuries – Andy Denwood and Awena Carter
• Coke Ovens on the Lancaster Canal – Sheila Jones
• Evidence of the Local Flax Industry (Summer Trip) – Simon Williams and Pat Rowland
• Reports of Evening Meetings – Clive Holden
• Notes & Queries: Railway from Scout Crag to Carnforth Iron Works – Stephen Fawcett

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• Warton Crag: Re-appraising an “Iron Age” Hill Fort: Part 1 – Kevin Grice
• Carnforth Cinemas – Clive Holden
• A Silverdale War Hero Remembered – Sheila Spencer
• Obituary: Dr John Findlater, 1925-2019 – Sheila Jones
• Sedgwick Gunpowder Works Tour – Andrew Davies
• Reports of Evening Meetings – Clive Holden, Simon Williams and Sheila Jones
• Notes & Queries: Boy’s Town – Clive Holden

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• Quaker’s Stang – Simon Williams
• Yealand Friends’ Meeting School in the 18th and 19th centuries – Sheila Jones
• A Foundling Archbishop? – Andy Denwood
• A Trip to Heron Corn Mill – Sheila Jones
• Reports of Evening Meetings – Clive Holden
• Notes & Queries – Clive Holden & Sheila Jones
• Speaker Programme for 2018-19

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• Extracts from19th Century Log Book of Yealand Friends’ Meeting School – Sheila Jones
• Archaeological Investigations on Summerhouse Hill – Dr Vicki Cummings & Scott McKenna
• Clap-Bread, Old Alice’s “Home-Remembered Dainty” – Pauline Kiggins
• Book Review of A History of Warton Parish by John Lucas, edited and published by Andy Denwood – Awena Carter
• Reports of Evening Meetings – Sheila Jones and Geoff Wood
• Notes & Queries – Dr Sam Edwards, Simon Williams and Nigel Emmerson
• Programme from September 2018 to April 2019

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• A Rare Warton Map is Discovered – Simon Williams
• A Vicarage for the Vicar: the Housing Problems of the Anglican Clergy in Carnforth in the 19th Century – the Reverend Ian Pearson. Part II
• Walduck’s Good Deed – Simon Williams
• Three Summer Trips – Andy Denwood; Geoff Wood; Clive Holden
• Reports of Evening Meetings – Clive Holden; Richard Carter
• Notes and Queries – Awena Carter and Philip Platt
• Programme 2017-18

• A Vicarage for the Vicar: the Housing Problems of the Anglican Clergy in Carnforth in the 19th Century – the Reverend Ian Pearson. Part I
• Elizabeth Gaskell, Burton and the Enclosure Movement – Pauline Kiggins
• Jenny Brown Revisited – Simon Williams
• Barbara Birrel – A Life in Carnforth – Sheila Jones
• Book Review – Awena Carter
• Reports of Evening Meetings – Clive Holden
• Notes and Queries – Maggie Dickinson
• Silverdale Chapel, a Mystery Sketch – Simon Williams

• The Mourholme Ring, Forty Years Later – Simon Williams
• Know Your Local Post Box – Clive Holden
• Hartley’s Quarry Outings – Sheila Jones
• A Silverdale Connection – Valerie Martin
• A Visit to the Edge of the Roman Empire – Simon Williams & Pam Davies
• Reports of Evening Meetings – Clive Holden
• Notes and Queries – Andrew & Pam Davies, and Clive Holden

• John Lucas, Where Art Thou? – Andy Denwood
• Shopping in Silverdale in Times Past (and Present) – Geoff Wood
• Local Archaeology: Jenny Brown’s Point and Warton Crag – Simon Williams
• Archaeology on Summerhouse Hill – Andy Denwood
• John Jenkinson of Yealand – Simon Williams
• Reports of Evening Meetings – Richard Carter, Clive Holden, Sheila Jones
• Notes and Queries – Simon Williams and Clive Holden

• Jenny Ager – Sheila Jones
• The Development of Grange – Nick Mortimer
• The Rise (and Fall) of the Carnforth Co-operative Society – Clive Holden
• Harold Escolme: A Yealand Youth Lost at Passchendale – Brian Smalley
• Carnforth Memories of Childhood Play – Sheila Jones
• Summer Trips – Simon Williams and Andy Denwood
• Reports of Evening Meetings – Clive Holden
• Notes and Queries – Kate Schofield and Clive Holden

• In the Very Heart of Dissent; Yealands Two Schools – Joan Clarke
• Rude Forefathers, Part 3: The Story of an English Village, 1600-1666,Francis H. West – extracts by John Findlater
• Saving Silverdale’s Shoreline: Conservation in the 19th Century – Michael Wright
• The Establishment of the Police Force in the 19th Century – John Jenkinson

• Captain Mutter and Walduck’s Wall (Part Two) – Simon Williams
• Hartley’s Quarries (Part Two) – Sheila Jones
• A Picture Postcard View of Silverdale – Awena Carter
• Reports of Evening Meetings – Clive Holden
• Notes and Queries – Clive Holden

AIREY William James
Died 14 Oct 1916 Age 20
Buried St John the Evangelist’s Parish Church, Yealand Conyers
Photograph of William J Airey

Service Record:
Private 59005 21st Battalion Canadian Infantry

He was born on 14 November 1895 to James (born in Capernwray) and Gertrude (born Salford) Airey from Lancaster. He was married to Annie Walker.

He died of his wounds at Netley Hospital, Hampshire. His sister flew over from Canada and was with him when he died. As a former resident of Yealand he is buried in the churchyard.

More details about his service

 

ABBOTT Robert George Died 9 Sept 1916 Age 18 Buried at Bernafay Wood British Cemetery Montauban France Photograph of his grave

ABBOTT Robert George

Service record: Private 3427 King’s Own (Royal Lancashire Regiment) 1st/4th Battalion Enlisted 10 May 1915. According to Army records he lived at 31 Grosvenor Place, Carnforth, however, the leaflet near the War Memorial in Carnforth states he lived at 11 Alexandra Road with his parents Thomas and Jennie and his sisters Florence, Edith, Mary, Jeanie, Doris and Amy.

ALLINSON John Died 16 October 1918 Age 21 Buried St Aubert British Cemetery V.B.2 France

ALLINSON John Service Record

Lance Corporal 43724 North Staffordshire Regiment 1st Battalion.

Son of John Thomas and Esther Allinson of The Grove Silverdale. Killed in action near Cambrai

AMBROSE Henry (Harry) Died 18 July 1916 Age 29 Remembered Thiepval Memorial Pier and face 5D France

AMBROSE Henry Service Record

Private 20449 King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 8th Battalion.

Killed in action at Longueval during the Battle of the Somme

Son of Mrs Eliza Ambrose 10 Garmoyle Road, Liverpool

ARMER Albert Henry (Harry) Died 12 Aug 1915 Age 27 Buried at Ypres Reservoir Cemetery V. AA. 1

Photograph of him and his grave

ARMER Albert Henry (Harry) Service Record Lance Corporal 11850 Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry 6th Battalion

Lived at 4 Russell Road, Carnforth with his parents Henry and Hannah and his brother William on 1911 Census.

ASHWORTH John Died 21 March 1918 Age 23 Remembered Pozieres Memorial, France Panel 46

ASHWORTH John Service Record

Private 241060 Border Regiment 5th Battalion

Son of Robert Ashworth of Hopewell House, Warton, Carnforth. Husband of Sarah Jane Braithwaite (formerly Ashworth) of The Row, Oakenclough, Garstang, Preston.

1901 Census shows John aged 9 living at Hopewell House with his parents Robert (49) and Margaret (54) and his siblings Robert (21) William (18), Joseph (11) and his neices and nephews Margaret L Ashworh (4) and Herbert (3) along with his grandfather James Craig (76).

The 1911 Census shows that he was a border in Egremont, Cumbria and his profession was wagon examiner.