Silcock's Farm, Farington

[Farington21]

Does anyone have any memories, photo's or information on Silcock's Farm in Farington? It would have been on the site on what is now the estate on Lever House Lane.

[noel]

Welcome to the forum David. Yes I remember it well, we bought veg from the kitchen shop they had, the farm ran from the top of School St, there is or was ( not been there for a long time since the houses were built) a ginnel connecting the two streets, the farm house was built at the start or end, whichever way you look at it, of the cinder path that was Lever House Lane where it joined the ginnel. It then stretched down to Bristol Avenue a series of hen pens on the west side and farm land where you could see the shire horse pulling a plow, can't remember them using modern machinery.

[Farington21]

Thanks, do you think it's possible that Leyland Library holds any images of the area prior to the housing development there?

[noel]

I would have thought there were some pictures of the area before developing. I can visualise it in my head but that's not really helping you. There doesn't appaer to be anything on the Leyland Historical site but it was of course in Farington, not Leyland.
Right next to the farm was Lever House then a small woodeb bungalow and on the opposite side from Lever House a newer detached house, then the cinder path led down to the old church scout hut which still seems to be there, and more of Silcocks farm was in the land to the east of the cinder track.

[Dan barlow]

Farington 21. When I was a lad about 70 years ago, the Silcocks farm was as stated and the cinder path that Noel talks about ran from the back of Bristol Avenue to Moss lane, at the lane end was St Ambrose Church Hall and on the opposite side was an old barn, I think that that was part of Silcocks farm but I cant be sure after all this time. Best to your endeavours. I use to go to Sunday School in the Church Hall in those days and the Sunday School Superintendent, I think his name was Hill, Had a bit of an up and downer with the new Vicar about services and on one Sunday the Hall was locked so we had the serviuce in the old Barn, Some weeks later the breakaway group led by the Superintendent use to meet above a Fish and Chip Shop near the railway Inn, So us lads used to say we were going to St, Chips.

[anacortesdamp]

A while back, someone posted some historical photos from a County historical database that showed the area around East Street and the lower section of Chapel Brow. You might want to go back and search for the site, as I'm sure there are a lot more aerial photos in that county archive.

Frank Damp

[zicobones]

This is really interesting as I'm from the Farington area well moved here when I was toddler so hearing about it's history is rather interesting

[Farington21]

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Originally posted by anacortesdamp

A while back, someone posted some historical photos from a County historical database that showed the area around East Street and the lower section of Chapel Brow. You might want to go back and search for the site, as I'm sure there are a lot more aerial photos in that county archive.

Frank Damp

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Would this be Lancashire Lantern's archive that you are referring to?

Thanks

[anacortesdamp]

David:

If it wasn't the County Council archives, it may have been the Lancashire Evening Post. I'm not familiar with the "Lantern". I'll do a search on the thread I was thinking of and get back to you.

Frank

[Farington21]

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Originally posted by anacortesdamp

David:

If it wasn't the County Council archives, it may have been the Lancashire Evening Post. I'm not familiar with the "Lantern". I'll do a search on the thread I was thinking of and get back to you.

Frank

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Thanks