Four Lane Ends Congregational Church

Between Tottington and Affteside is Four Lane ends. It sits at the junction of Bradshaw road and Harwood road. Tiny community, just a handful of cottages. I recall forty something years ago driving a Landrover with my Grandma Jane up to these cottages on a Christmas morning, in the snow, to take a Christmas dinner to the old people - Meals on Wheels. Now with a big grip on my family history this church stirs some distant memories. Some of the engraved names are distant relatives or relatives of relatives. The two stone inscriptions are important too. They represent that even a tiny community such as this sent their menfolk to war.

There are two inscriptions to the right of the left window below:

"IN HONOUR OF ALL

WHO SERVED IN THE WORLD WAR

1939- 1945"

"IN HONOUR OF THE LADS

WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR

1914 -1918"

I am not sure that these inscriptions are in the IWM Database.

It is clear that the names on the walls are families that used the church, how or why they had their names engraved is not clear

 I did not have time to do a proper photo study as I was in the middle of "The Peelers" challenge walk, so I took the chance to take what I could and move on!
The names are transcribed below. - Hopefully your internet search will have found them!

Derek James Brown
Sarah Lucy Brown and James Brown
James Barlow Brown
Sarah Lucy Brown

Annie and Squire Shaw
Samuel Horrocks Howard
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Olive and William Turner
Mollie Turner
Stanley Eastwood
-
Ephraim and Emily Turner

James and Alice Ann Pilling
Alice Ann and Gertrude

Clarence and Mildred Haydock

Jack and Margaret Hopkinson

Betty Grimshaw, Ellen Grimshaw

Peter and Annie Elizabeth Allanson

Bert and Sarah A. Allanson

Brian Nuttal, Betty Wall

John and Alice Hopkinson

George and Amy Turner

Samuel Bentley

Joseph Entwhistle

Joseph and Alice Anson

Albert Forrest, James Forrest, Tom Forrest, John Forrest, Theresa Forrest, Elizabeth M. Forrest, Margaret S. and Thomas A. Wolfenden

William Henry and Vera Matthews

Peter and Sally Hamer

James and Eleanor Waring

William and Olive Turner

Stanley and Molly Eastwood, Nee Turner and Carole

Peter and Betsey Bently

Roger and Alice Howard

Squire and Annie Shaw

J and A Smith

James, Rachel & Annie Forrest George Forrest

George and May Roberts

Eli and Mary Ann Warburton

Walter Ainsworth, Edith Ainsworth

Joseph and Hannah Warburton

Robert and Olive Platt

Robert and Mary Ann Scowcroft

Gordon and Marion Turner

Edna Forrest

Edward Sharples, Ena Mercer, Alice Anderton, Edith Sharples, Elizabeth Fitton, Thomas and Maarion Walker, William Henry and Hannah Syddall

Richard and Alice Jane Nuttall

Bert and Hannah Evans

Peter and Hannah Roscow

Thomas and  Alice Turner

Ann and Betty Turner

Thomas and Betty Bentley

Thomas and Anne Nuttall

James Nuttall

James Pilling and Alice Ann Pilling

Thomas a Sarah Ellen Turner son Edward

Myles and Margaret Nuttall

Joseph and Rachel Nuttall

Fred L Adcock - A Lay Preacher

Thomas and Elsie Roberts

Bert and Ethel Worby

Aaron Smith, James Smith

William Nuttall

John and Alice Nuttall

Edwin and Elsie Watters

There appears to be Allanson round the corner, but I can't resolve it

The inscription reads 

FOUR LANE ENDS 

CONGREGATIONAL

BUILT 1832

ENLARGED 1930

There is also a stone that says "In Memorium"  This could mean that these are the parishioners that are remembered that have been engraved on the stones. More research!

Not too happy with this - poor photos

Winter Hill plane crash 1958

The route of the Anglezarke Amble passes three memorials on its route to the Belmont Road. This little memorial plaque is placed on a gatepost as the road starts to descend from the summit. The Grid Reference is SD 66100 14698

Clearly a gatepost!
If you look below the plaque a Cut Mark is clearly visible,
the grid reference is above.

There is another gatepost to the left. Well decorated stone

The path continues down to the main road between Belmont and Bolton. I will post the other pictures soon. Suspect that George Henderson will have used this track frequently to travel to Belmont. See below.

Scotsman's Stump

This information has been taken from Horwich Town Council Website: Although the photo is mine.

Scotsman's Stump lies just inside the Horwich Boundary, close to the summit of Winter Hill. It marks the spot where a young Scotsman was murdered on 9 November 1838. George Henderson was a 20 year old native of Annan in Dumfrieshire and he worked for a Blackburn draper as a travelling salesman.
He often walked across the moors to settle financial matters with his employer. On the fateful day, an autumnal mist enshrouded the hills as Henderson set out on his last earthly journey.
He called into a local hostelry at around twelve noon for sustenance before embarking on the trek over the hill.

The Scotchman's Stump

Shortly after he had left the inn, a young boy saw blood on the road and heard somebody desperately crying for help from a ditch.
The boy fetched help, and Henderson was found horribly disfigured by gunshot wounds.
Despite attempts to revive him, George Henderson died at 2.00pm that same day. It is reported that his last words were "I am robbed, I am killed". Much evidence pointed to the identity of the murderer as James Whittle, a 22 year old man who lived close to the inn where Henderson had taken his last sojourn, and who had bought a shotgun the previous day.
So strong was the evidence that Whittle was charged with Henderson's murder and stood trial at Liverpool Crown Court. The main prosecution witness, a Joseph Halliwell of Bolton, became increasingly less reliable as his testimony proceeded, and it took the jury less than an hour and a half to acquit Whittle.
Nobody else was charged with the murder. Shortly after George Henderson's murder, a tree was planted to mark the place of his demise. In 1912, a cast iron pillar was bought by public subscription to replace the tree, and it stands there to this day, Scotsman's Stump, a memorial to the young victim of a murder most foul.

In memory of
George Henderson
Traveller
Native of Annan, Dumfrieshire
Who was barbarously
Murdered on
Rivington Moor
At noonday Nov 9th 1838
In the 20th year
Of his age

 A heading in the ‘Bolton Chronicle’ on Saturday, 10 November 1838 stated: Horrible murder at Belmont

George Henderson, a young Scottish packman was employed as a traveller by a Mr John Blackburn. He moved around the neighbourhood taking orders; selling, delivering, and collecting payment. He visited Blackburn regularly to report to his employers.

On Thursday 8 November he stayed at the ‘Old Cock Inn’, Blackrod, a village on the turnpike road, from Manchester to Preston. An old track from Blackrod led down to Anderton Hall, Horwich then across to the Rivington Pike road, near Winter Hill and joining the regular old packhorse route to Blackburn by way of Belmont, a moorland village on the Bolton to Preston road.

Henderson left Blackrod about 8.0 am on the Friday morning but he never arrived in Blackburn. He was found at 13.45 pm lying near the summit of Winter Hill, by the road descending to Belmont. He had been shot through the head and he died at 2.30 pm in a nearby cottage. The motive was presumed to be robbery and as a result of the evidence, a local man James Whittle, was arrested. Following the inquest he was sent for trial - and acquitted, the murder remaining unsolved - at the Lancashire Assizes at Liverpool in 1839. By the T.V. mast on Winter Hill, a memorial known as Scotsman’s Stump was erected, to mark the spot where George Henderson was shot. It bears the following inscription:-

“To the memory of George Henderson, traveller, native of Annan, Dumfries-shire, who was brutally murdered on Rivington Moor at Noonday, November 9th 1838 in the 20th year of his age.

(Extracted from The Manchester Genealogist, Manchester & Lancashire FHS Vol 28 No.3 July 1992 from a talk given by Mr David Holding, author of ‘Murder In The Heather. Published in 1991)

These 2 stories are essentially the same.

Anyone with an interest in Winter Hill should obtain a copy of

Winter Hill Scrapbook

By Dave Lane (needs a search on Inet

W. Garbut, beerseller and master collier, said he lived at Five Houses, Horwich. There were no houses on the road but those between Horwich and Belmont. A girl informed him ... He saw Whittle pass by his house while the Scotchman was in.

Lytham St Annes Memorial home.

This mini estate was built in 1950. I have driven and cycled past so many times! I didn't know there was an inscription on the wall until it was pointed out to me! This at the junction of Church road and Smithy lane
Here are the photos and a transcription of the inscription.

Waiting at the bus stop.
The road to the right goes to Lytham via Ansdell.
To the left heads up Church road in a general
St Annes, Blackpool direction.

Close up  of the inscription

THE PEOPLE OF LYTHAM ST ANNES
IN COMMEMORATION OF THE MEN AND WOMEN
OF THE BOROUGH WHO SERVED AND DIED FOR
THEIR COUNTRY HAVE ERECTED THIS MEMORIAL
AS A TOKEN OF PRIDE AND REMEMBRANCE.

'THEY GAVE THEIR TOMORROW FOR OUR TODAY'
OPENED BY
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF DERBY MC
18th September 1950

Sightly different angle

Looking from the rear of the memorial
The building behind is Ansdell Campus of
Blackpool & Fylde College.
(newly rebuilt, the original was burned to the ground)

 This is number 42433 at the War Memorials Archive

Grasmere, Memorial and St Oswald's

Grasmere village is in the middle of this photograph. The lake is to the left.

This a panorama taken from the path out of Grasmere which goes past Dove Cottage and heads ultimately to Fairfield.

Grasmere is a pretty village in the Lake District, It is always busy. Most come for the sights, Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth connections. Many including me come for the hills. However St Oswald's church is ancient and the memorial some way from the church is fine little memorial well cared for by the community and slightly out of the way of the visitor. I took these pictures on two visits a year apart. The first pictures are of the memorial.

There are no names on the memorial
This information is in the church, see below.

IN HONOUR OF THE MEN
OF GRASMERE WHO
FOUGHT. AND IN EVER
THANKFUL MEMORY
OF THE MEN WHO DIED
FOR GOD, FOR KING, FOR HOME
FOR FREEDOM, PEACE, AND RIGHT
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914-1918
1939- 45

THE IMMORTAL DEAD
THESE DIED IN THE WAR, THAT WE AT PEACE MIGHT LIVE
THEY GAVE THEIR BEST, SO WE OUR BEST SHOULD GIVE
NOT FOR THEMSELVES FOR FREEDOM, HOME AND RIGHT
THEY FOUGHT AND BID US FORWARD TO THE FIGHT
SEE YE TO IT THAT THEY SHALL NOT HAVE DIED IN VAIN

Yes, it really does lean slightly backwards!

Taken in early spring

Recorded on the War Memorials Archive as 4186

Edward Seton Chance Lt Colonel 2nd Dragoon Guards 1918 May 29 *
Aubone Charles Campbell D.S.O. Major 2nd K.O.S.B. 1918 April 3
John Gordon Dutton M.C. with bar Major R.F.A. 1918 April 5 #
Hero Oswald Hillerns Major R.F.A. Territorial Force 1917 April 14
Andrew Ferguson Chance Captain R.F.A. 1915 October 3
Francis Rudolf Danson Lieutenant  4th Batt Cheshire Regiment 1915 August10
Joshua Hardisty M.M. Sergeant 11th Border Regiment 1916 November 18 #
Alfred Marsden Sergeant 8th Border Regiment 1916 April 8 (Different details)
Thomas Henry Sanderson D.C.M. M.M. Sergeant R.F.A 1917 August 17 #
James Smith Sergeant Northumberland Fusiliers 1919 February 5 # (Buried in the local cemetery)
George Routledge Wilson Corporal K.O.S.B. 1918 June 7 #
George Edward Thompson Lance Corporal 11th Border Regt 1917 July 10 #
Nellie Taylor Driver  V.A.D. British Red Cross Society 1918 June 27 #

John Foster Stobbart Private 4th Border Regt. 1941 December 5 #

Of the Border Regiment

John Herbert Baisbrown Private 1st Battalion 1918 January 13  #
John Dixon Private 2nd Battalion 1916 July 1
John Hardisty Private 1st Battalion 1916 July 30
Henry Bowness Johnson Private 11th Battalion 1916 April 6 #
Fred Kendall Private 8th Battalion 1918 September 4 #
William Warwick Peascod Private 8th Battalion 1917 November 5 #
and William Wilson Private 6th Battalion 1916 September 27 #

Noel Baisbrown Private 14th Royal Montreal Rifles C.E.F. 1918 September 27 #
Frederick Bone Driver R.A.S.C. M.T. A.I.F. 1918 November 6
Henry Dixon Private Northumberland Fusiliers 1918 June 5 #
Thomas Warwick Peascod Driver R.F.A. 1917 November 26 #
Tom Fleming Wilson Gunner Tank Corps 1916 September 22

Bruce Wilson Lance Corporal Coldstream Guards 1944 September 30

Recorded on the War Memorials Archive as 4187

The very bottom on its own slate tablet is
Margaret Lilias Sumner August 18 1859 - August 24 1919
(Kelbarrow, Grasmere - Sister of Elizabeth Sumner and Jane Henrietta Sumner) This link is still live (24/7/2013) Traces back to a former Archbishop of Canterbury.
None of this below is my work!

5)(Rev) Robert SUMNER b 1750 (1748?) d 9 Oct 1802 (Burke's says d 1804);
m Hannah BIRD b 1757 d 10 Dec 1846 Godalming dau of Alderman John BIRD
and Judith WILBURFORCE (Burke's says dau of William BIRD merchant of
London; prob dau of William.) Robert was Vicar of Kenilworth and
Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, England; 2 sons.
6)(Archbishop) John Bird SUMNER D.D. b 25 Feb 1780 Kenilworth, Kent Co
Eng d 6 Sep 1862 Addington bur Addington Churchyard; educated at Eton and
Cambridge; Master at Eaton 1802; took orders 1803; B.A. 1803, M.A. 1807,
D.D. 1828; Fellow of Eaton 1817; author; m 3 Mar 1803 at Bath, Marianne
ROBERTSON d 22 Mar 1829 Manor House, Wandsworth dau of naval Capt George
ROBERTSON of Edinburgh; John was Bishop of Chester 1828, Archbishop of
Canterbury, Kent, 1848. [John Bird Sumner - Evangelical Archbishop, pub
in U.K. by Gracewing 1995 or 1996]
7)Anne SUMNER 1804-1833; James Adair Griffith COLPOYS 1800-1868.
Descendants in charts of Ian SUMNER.
7)Louisa Elizabeth SUMNER 1806-1864.
7)Eliza Marie SUMNER 1808-1836; m William GIBSON; 2 C.
7)Georgiana SUMNER (Georgina?) b 1812? bp 29 Aug 1814 Eton, Buckingham
d 1881; m Wilson Dobie WILSON; 2 C.
7)Caroline SUMNER 1815-1841.
7)Maria SUMNER 1817-1861; m John THOMAS 1811-1833; 4 C.
7)John Henry Robertson SUMNER 1821- 1910; m/1 Antonetta Maria EDWARDS
d 1852; m/2 Elizabeth Ann GIBSON.
8)Edith Maria SUMNER b 1848; m Arnold POWELL; 1 C.
8)Alice Fanny SUMNER b 1849.
8)John Robert Edwards SUMNER b 1850.
8)Elizabeth SUMNER 1855-1930 (of m/2).
8)Helen Jane Henrietta SUMNER 1857- 1926.
8)Margaret Lilias SUMNER 1859-1919.
8)Charles Henry SUMNER b 1862.
7)Robert George Moncrieff SUMNER 1824- 1885.



 *The rank of Edward Seton Chance does not correspond to the rank in the CWGC link.

 # Local

Amazingly there are links for every one off the fallen. However there seem to be quite a few who do not from the links on the CWGC have a connection to Grasmere or its locality, perhaps someone could fill in?

Sir John Richardson

IN MEMORY OF
SIR JOHN RICHARDSON C.B.
THE CONSTANT COMPANION
OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN
IN ARTIC EXPLORATION
BORN AT DUMFRIES 5TH NOVEMBER 1787
DIED AT LANGRIGG 5TH JUNE 1865

Heroic sailor-soul
And as the greatest only are
in his simplicity sublime

Sir John Richardson
File from Wikipedia, now in public domain.

THIS OFFERTORY BAG WAS USED IN THE LE FLEMING
ANCESTRY CHURCH OF ST OSWALD IN  GRASMERE FOR TWO
HUNDRED YEARS. IT WAS TAKEN OUT TO A MEMBER OF
THE LE FLEMING FAMILY RESIDENT IN NEW ZEALAND
BY A VISITING CLERGYMAN SOMETIME BEFORE THE FIRST
WORLD WAR, TOGETHER WITH SOME MATERIAL WHICH WAS
USED FOR THE KNEELER AT THE ALTAR.
CANON STENT OF MANAIA PARISH, NEW ZEALAND, USED
THE BAG UNTIL 1950, WHEN HE RETIRED. IT MUST BE
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD AND IN RECENT
TIMES HAS BEEN USED IN GRASMERE CHURCH, TO WHICH
IT HAS BEEN GIVEN BY, S.H. LE-FLEMING

Interior of St Oswald's Church

Standing at the entrance, looking down the church towards the altar

Back to the altar. The entrance is to the left

St Oswald's is well worth a visit if you like ancient churches.