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Women's lives

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  • 11 stories
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  • 35 multimedia

11 stories about Women's lives
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  • Born into a family of butchers

    Born into a family of butchers

    Ninety-one-year-old Richard ‘Rex’ Lancaster had an idyllic childhood in Grange. In shorts and vest his six-to-eight-week summer holidays were spent ...
  • Fishing in a male dominated world - Margaret Owen

    Fishing in a male dominated world - Margaret Owen

    Semi-retired Margaret Owen, née Gregory, moved to Morecambe Bay in 1957 from Manchester aged five. In 1981 she and her husband, ...
  • Fishing with a haaf-net - Margaret Owen

    Fishing with a haaf-net - Margaret Owen

  • Fishing with seals - Margaret Owen

    Fishing with seals - Margaret Owen

  • Growing up at Sunderland Point - Dorothy Calverley

    Growing up at Sunderland Point - Dorothy Calverley

  • Growing up at Sunderland Point - Iris Birks

    Growing up at Sunderland Point - Iris Birks

  • Have you heard the cockles sing?

    Have you heard the cockles sing?

    Janet tells how the tragedy of the Chinese cocklers in 2004 led to changes in the laws and the effect ...
  • Morecambe's Super Swimming Stadium

    Morecambe's Super Swimming Stadium

    Ginny Marshall remembers the 1960s when thousands of tourists and locals used to flock to the beaches of Morecambe to ...
  • Nearly drowned - Margaret Owen

    Nearly drowned - Margaret Owen

  • The Sound of Horses in the Night

    The Sound of Horses in the Night

    The sound of horses’ hooves in the night, clip clopping up the hill towards the Sands is one evocative memory ...
  • Wartime Memories of Arnside

    Wartime Memories of Arnside

    Gillian Asplin was born Gillian Davy in 1939 in Grange-over-Sands, but the family soon moved to Arnside as her father ...
14 images of Women's lives
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  • Photograph of Barbara Dawe and Jean Dennis, interviewees for oral history project.

    Photograph of Barbara Dawe and Jean Dennis, interviewees for oral history project.

  • Photograph of Dorothy Calverley, interviewee for oral history project.

    Photograph of Dorothy Calverley, interviewee for oral history project.

  • Photograph of Eileen Baxter and Helen Graham, interviewees for oral history project.

    Photograph of Eileen Baxter and Helen Graham, interviewees for oral history project.

  • Photograph of Ellen Shuttleworth, interviewee for oral history project.

    Photograph of Ellen Shuttleworth, interviewee for oral history project.

  • Photograph of Hilda Burrow, interviewee for oral history project.

    Photograph of Hilda Burrow, interviewee for oral history project.

  • Photographs relating to Miss Great Britain

    Photographs relating to Miss Great Britain

  • Picking shrimps at Morecambe Fishermen's Co-operative Society. Pictured are Ada Bartholemew, aunt of Eric Morecambe, and Ginny Gardener

    Picking shrimps at Morecambe Fishermen's Co-operative Society. Pictured are Ada Bartholemew, aunt of Eric Morecambe, and Ginny Gardener

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21 media clips about Women's lives
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  • Oral history interview with Baxters of Morecambe staff

    Oral history interview with Baxters of Morecambe staff

  • Oral history interview with Dorothy Calverley of Sunderland Point

    Oral history interview with Dorothy Calverley of Sunderland Point

  • Oral history interview with Eileen Bainbridge, worked at fish factory in Flookurgh and picked for fishermen in Flookburgh

    Oral history interview with Eileen Bainbridge, worked at fish factory in Flookurgh and picked for fishermen in Flookburgh

  • Oral history interview with Eileen Baxter and Helen Graham talking about the Morecambe Trawlers

    Oral history interview with Eileen Baxter and Helen Graham talking about the Morecambe Trawlers

  • Oral history interview with Evelyn Archer (nee Moreland), founder member of the Winter Gardens Trust and was pivotal in saving the Winter Gardens Theatre

    Oral history interview with Evelyn Archer (nee Moreland), founder member of the Winter Gardens Trust and was pivotal in saving the Winter Gardens Theatre

  • Oral history interview with Gillian Asplin. Wartime memories of Arnside.

    Oral history interview with Gillian Asplin. Wartime memories of Arnside.

  • Oral history interview with Ginny Marshall, a lifeguard in Morecambe Super Swimming Stadium

    Oral history interview with Ginny Marshall, a lifeguard in Morecambe Super Swimming Stadium

  • Oral history interview with Helen Loxam, current Chief Executive of the Lancaster Port Commission

    Oral history interview with Helen Loxam, current Chief Executive of the Lancaster Port Commission

  • Oral history interview with Hilda Burrow, daughter of John Richard Dickinson Burrow, who was Guide to the Sands at Grange Farm

    Oral history interview with Hilda Burrow, daughter of John Richard Dickinson Burrow, who was Guide to the Sands at Grange Farm

  • Oral history interview with Iris Birks of Sunderland Point

    Oral history interview with Iris Birks of Sunderland Point

  • Oral history interview with Jackie Bailiff of Sunderland Point

    Oral history interview with Jackie Bailiff of Sunderland Point

  • Oral history interview with Janet Butler of Morecambe Bay Fishermen's Association

    Oral history interview with Janet Butler of Morecambe Bay Fishermen's Association

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