We went to Slaidburn on Monday, taking the tree picture on the way. It’s a fascinating old village, which wouldn’t look out of place in a Harry Potter film (or a Hammer House of Horror film for those of us who remember them).
I’ll be writing about that visit in a couple of days.
Then we went to Clitheroe. It’s a pleasant small town not far from Pendle Hill, and it has cropped up a few times in recent posts, mainly as a residence for various members of my family. I used to enjoy visiting it when I was a child, though I have to say that I never noticed how hilly it was when I was younger.
It was a dullish day so I had a go with the effects on my computer – not sure if it’s worked or not. One of my early memories is of visiting the war memorial with my grandmother and being shown her father’s name on the side.
Like so many others he’s just a name on a memorial now, I doubt if anyone who knew him is alive now.
These are various homes of the Carus family over the years. The one with the red car is where my grandmother was living with her widowed mother in 1917, and may be the one where the family photo was taken. The view of the castle is the one they would have seen when they stepped outside.
Harry Carus and family -1915
The house with the silver car outside is the one where all the family lived in the late 19th century – all nine of them!
The other one, with the box balls in the front garden, is where Isaac Newton Carus lived, before handing it on to one of his sons.
I have a lot more to do, so this is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s a strange feeling, seeing all these places where family used to live, particularly as I must have passed within 100 yards of one of them dozens of times without realising.
Fascinating! I am married to “Auntie Peggy’s” daughter Eleanor! I have also found Harry’s name on the War memorial at Clitheroe.
Hello Derrick. How you and Eleanor doing? I did a few posts on the Caruses but I’m not very good at finishing things off so it’s still an unfinished project.
It’s Simon here, Jim and Dorothy’s son – I adopted an accidental alias when I started the blog. 🙂
Interesting and very rich family history!
We have a lot of dull bits too. 🙂 Julia’s is more exciting.
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We used to play the march Slaidburn when I was in our town brass band.
I’ve just been listening to it on You Tube – I only heard of it whilst adding the Slaidburn link to the post.
What a great visit to the past and history learned! I just came from the Fab Four of Cley’s site ‘According to Dina where I learned of more British history. What a great way to start my day with all of you!
https://toffeefee.wordpress.com/2017/12/08/cosy-cotswolds-cottages/
Thank you – I enjoyed the Cotswolds link. This https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/75589150/posts/28262is one of mine –
I have given that site a link to your, sorry for the delay.
🙂 Thank you.
Family history is always fascinating. My Lancashire grandmother loved listening to The Clitheroe Kid.
Me too. And the TV show.
It must make you wish you had asked questions when they were alive, though doubtless you were too young (not talking about the WWI vets here, but your gran, etc).
A mix of too young and them rarely talking about it. Both my grandfathers spoke to me once about their experiences ) one in WW1 and one in WW2 and that was that – they just didn’t want to say more. My grandmother told me a bit more and one of her sisters told me some things once (those are the two older ones in the family picture). They had been orphaned when their mother died in 1921 and split up amongst the family and had some bad times.
That’s part of it too. My father rarely talked about WW2, unless it was about people or places. Nothing about combat. My uncles were the same.
It is very frustrating when looking back, as is the fact that I could have visited some of the people that I can now only write about.
Such a lovely War Memorial! The view from there must be very fine.
It is. The whole castle and hill were bought by the town in 1920 and they, rather than just the statue, are the war memorial.
Really! That’s wonderful!
They are nice people. 🙂
🙂
Nice post 👍
Thank you.
Lots of ghosts.
It is opening up a lot of new areas of interest for me, including all those previous lives.
Very interesting.
Thank you, though I suspect you are too kind. 🙂