One of the oldest pictures shows the Eagle and Child at Weeton. It’s of the oldest inns in the Fylde built more than 400 years ago and originally thatched. The Danes first settled in Weeton and built a road through the district to Poulton, about 1040. Another super old pub photo shows The Guides House at Warton. It was aptly called because a guide would escort parties through a ford at low tide to Hesketh Bank, at the other side of the River Ribble.
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Kirkham and Wesham Club day procession - early 1900s - along Poulton Street, Kirkham, led by little flower girls, with brass band in background
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The Eagle and Child at Weeton is one of the oldest inns in the Fylde, built more than 400 years ago and originally thatched. The Danes first settled in Weeton and built a road through the district to Poulton, about 1040
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The Eagle and Child at Weeton is one of the oldest inns in the Fylde, built more than 400 years ago and originally thatched. The Danes first settled in Weeton and built a road through the district to Poulton, about 1040
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An Austin 16 police patrol car in Kirkham in 1944 with one of the PCs using a radio. It was described on the picture as a replay of the Freckleton Air Disaster
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This scene of cattle being herded up Preston Street, Kirkham in 1905 would be a very rare sight today, but many of the buildings remain
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Wrea Green Windmill shortly before work started to convert it into a luxury home in the early 1980's. The mill dates from the 1770s, it was converted to steam in the 1860s but was badly damaged when a boiler exploded and set the building on fire, putting an end to it's working life