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Wednesday 27th March 2024

"Gingerbread": Ormskirk's Lost Victorian Magazine by Roy Bayfield 

The Ormskirk Advertiser is familiar to us all as the town's newspaper, but did you know that for three years in the 1880s another periodical recorded the people and happenings of the area?

 Guide Hut, Moorgate, Ormskirk

Doors open 7pm, talk starts 7.30pm

 All welcome

 Next Ormskirk Library Family History Helpdesk

Monday 3rd June 2024

10.30 a.m.- 11.30 a.m.

See "Events" and "Meetings" pages for details of upcoming events.

Who do you think they are?...please help us identify these mystery photographs

Whilst we are able to put names to faces for many of the photographs in the ODFHS collection, there are some which remain a mystery.  Can you help us to identify anyone in these photographs?  If you can provide information about the date, location, occasion or subject, please email the ODFHS Librarian macdonald6465[at]gmail.com

Photograph 8 - Holiday snaps, 1930s ?
 
This intriguing selection of images is copied from a set of stereoscopic glass slides dated 1936 bought on Ormskirk market back in 1967. This is clearly a collection of holiday snaps from a well-to-do family with nautical interests and, although we can recognise some of the locations - Cornwall, Isle of Man, Scotland, & Denmark - there are few clues to whom the people might be. Do you recognise the family? Is it maybe yours?
 
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We've managed to track down this fancy car from its number plate. It's a classic Hispano Suiza H6 32CV, still in ownership - see here for details.
According to this website, it was originally owned by "...a director of Tate and Lyle..." at their factory in Speke. Might this allow us to track down the family? They probably lived locally.
 
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Fowey Harbour Hotel - Cornwall
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RTYC = Royal Tay Yacht Club, Dundee, Scotland
 
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Denmark (Aeroskobing)
 
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This might provide some clues - captions on some of the slides
OCR of this slide (for search engine)...

38 MERCEDES - BENZ
37 M.Y. WHITE ROSE TORQUAY
36 A30ARD M.Y. WHITE ROSE'
35 AT RIVIERA CLUB.
34 JIM.
33 JIM.
32 MARGOT AND DOLLY.
31 BABS HUMBLECROFTS,
30 G. F. SCULLS FOWEY RIVER.
29 JIM SCULLS FOWEY RIVER
28 JIM SCULLS FOWEY RIVER.
27 JIM SCULLS FOWEY RIVER.
26 LANTIC BAY.
25 LANTIC BAY.
24 JIM SURFING PERRANPORTH.
23 LOOE
22 CHARLESTOWN.
21 CHARLESTOWN

 

Ormskirk Church
Ormskirk Parish
Church

Ormskirk railwaymen 1908
Ormskirk Station
1908

Scarisbrick Hall 1815
Scarisbrick Hall
1815

Skelmersdale Station
Skelmersdale
Station

Moor Street market
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Market