My Lancashire - My accounts of the local area

Ghost Sign in Lostock Hall   𝔾𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕥 𝕊𝕚𝕘𝕟 𝕚𝕟 𝕋𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕪 𝔾𝕒𝕥𝕖 - “𝕁 𝕎 𝕐𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕤. 𝔸𝕤𝕜 𝕗𝕠𝕣 ℍ𝕠𝕧𝕚𝕤” I haven't done a post about this topic for a while. However, this came to my attention this week, so I thought it warranted an early revisit. Ghost Sign in Lostock Hall This old advertisement is painted onto the north-facing wall of a building, on the junction of Coote Lane and Leyland Road, in Tardy Gate, Lostock Hall. There was another advertising billboard over the top of it, up until relatively recently, so that's probably why it is pretty well preserved. That billboard was removed some time between August 2016 and July 2017. The building was formerly used as J. W. Yates' General Store (fondly known locally as John Willies), and the painted advert comes from that time. Another source of information said that store was run by James William Yates, a “master grocer”, and he traded here from the 1920s until his death in 1954. I am not sure why some of it i...

The Sculptures of Thompson Dagnall from Liverpool  Thompson Dagnall is a British sculptor. He was born in Liverpool in 1956, and he attended Liverpool and Brighton Polytechnics before gaining an MA at Chelsea College in 1979. I first became aware of him because he worked on quite a lot of commissions in the Preston area.  It wasn't the first of  Thompson's work that I had seen, but the Crow's Nest at Lea was the first one I identified has being attributed to him.  Later, I identified other works in the area.  " Crows-Nest " The 'Crows-Nest', by Sculptor Thompson Dagnall was created in 2006 from oak and steel. It was made for the waterways trust and is positioned on Savick Brook near the end of the Ribble Link. This is intended to be a literal interpretation of the crow’s-nest on a ship atop the mast, a link between the inland waterways and the anticipation of the open sea, leading the mind out beyond the link on a maritime adventure. Dagnall wanted to giv...