I was recently reminiscing about my first bike a beautiful purple FS1E the fun, crashes and stupid stunts we used to get up to in the late 70s. I bought the bike from ? and thats the problem i cannot remember the bike shops name in Sandy lane skem even though i spent many a Saturday there buying...

A reader on Ormskirk.gb.com forums would like to know if other readers are able to direct them to any sites which would inform them who traded at the jeweller's shop at 28 Church Street, Ormskirk in April, 1938? The lady in question is researching her family tree, has found a photograph...

Has Anyone Any Memories/Recollections?

A new 52 page magazine style History Of Skelmersdale book is present on sale at Bluebells Florist in Church Street Ormskirk but will soon be on wider release. It has over 70 black & white photo's, which include coal mines, the Old Skem Jazzer train, and many long gone buildings. This book...

Church Street Coronation Park Cycling Club Derby Road

Ormskirk market was created by the grant of a royal market charter to the monks of Burscough Priory by Edward I in 1286. Each Thursday it provided a trading centre for the highly productive farmlands around the town. Later, in 1461, Edward IV granted a charter for annual fairs. In 1876 the...

Bob Jermyn from Ormskirk has sent in this lovely photograph of Ormskirk Station circa 1908 with all the station staff posing for this photograph. On the rear of the photograph pictured below shows the names of all on the picture. A poignant reminder of the times gone by with the station about to...

This beautiful house is situated on the site of the ancestral home of the Scarisbrick family, that dates back to the time of King Stephen. The present building, considered to be one of the finest examples of Victorian Gothic architecture in the country, was designed by Pugin and completed in 1867. ...

:p im an ex pupil of Scarisbrick ahll and due to the derelict condidtion of many areas of the school, themost intersting of places were naturally made out of bounds. However i am very very facinated in the history of the bulding so if anybody has any information, pictures anything i would be...

This beautiful house is situated on the site of the ancestral home of the Scarisbrick family, that dates back to the time of King Stephen. The present building, considered to be one of the finest examples of Victorian Gothic architecture in the country, was designed by Pugin and completed in 1867. ...

hello I am searching for my father who I have never met. Kenneth Owens worked for a jh butterworth sub contracted to holima and sent to northern Ireland to fit a holima fridge he met my mother here but left to return to Liverpool/ormskirk/kirby area. He would be aged 60-70 and worked here in the...

A Brief History The Parish of St Anne's was founded in 1732 and has always been served by Benedictine monks. At that time the Mass Centre was a house in Aughton Street until a chapel was built in 1747 on part of the site of the Social Centre. That one was replaced in 1795 by another which...

The Altcar Bob train ran between Southport and Altcar from 1906 to 1938. It is remembered here with affection by the late John Ashcroft who used to live at Halsall, one of the stops on the line. On The Track of Altcar Bob Written by John Ashcroft 1972 The Altcar Bob died in 1938 but you...

The Beaconsfield Monument The Beaconsfield Monument stands at beginning of Moor Street, in front of the Golden Lion Pub. The monument is a statue of Lord Beaconsfield, alias the Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. His ideals were 'the maintenance of religion, of the estates of the realm and...

In Ormskirk there are many reminders of the town's history which you can see in the present town, for example, the old courtyards such as Court No 5 on Church Street. Ormskirk's first settlers were probably the Vikings or Norsemen from Ireland and the Isle of Man who invaded and settled in the...