[Paul]

Can anyone help with this?
I was born in Thornabu on Tees in a house named Penwortham because one of my ancestors lived there around the turn of the 19/20th C. This relative was said the be the Stationmaster at Penwortham and presumably lived in the stationmaster's house. Can anyone tell me where I might search to find out about this house and its occupants in ca 1900.
Many thanks in anticipation
R Watson

Can any one help Mr Watson?

[Mr Fell]

I would have a look on the 1901 census - this would be quite simple and can be done on line provided tha Ancestors name is known and he was still the starionamster in 1901.

[johnr]

part of the platform edge from the penwortham cop lane station still remains as a stone wall on the side of the penwortham bye-pass, just after the bridge taking cop lane over the road, on the opposite side to booths. it follows that the station master either lived in one of the houses above the site, as from memory of some pictures i saw, i think penwortham station was just a few covered shelters.

[johnr]

this map shows the location of the station. the track is long since gone and the track bed and cuttings have been used for the penwortham bye pass, but the map shows the location of the station, and the houses that were above it are all still there, old georgian/victorian terraced and semis.

http://www.ponies.me.uk/maps/osmap.html?z=...&y=53.73970

This post has been edited by johnr: 27 January 2010 - 01:57 AM

[Eternal Sunshine]

this map shows the location of the station. the track is long since gone and the track bed and cuttings have been used for the penwortham bye pass, but the map shows the location of the station, and the houses that were above it are all still there, old georgian/victorian terraced and semis.

http://www.ponies.me.uk/maps/osmap.html?z=...&y=53.73970

That map's fantastic. Remember a time before bypasses and motorways???? I just shows how the space we live in can be altered so much by such roads. How much more personal (and yes, I know 'impractical') the old roads and paths were when they passed through villages and past people's houses.

[johnr]

That map's fantastic. Remember a time before bypasses and motorways???? I just shows how the space we live in can be altered so much by such roads. How much more personal (and yes, I know 'impractical') the old roads and paths were when they passed through villages and past people's houses.

there is so much of this transport infrastructure from a past age still there. you just need to get your eye in to look at and for it. try looking at the same road on google earth, for an easy start. if you look, you can still follow the line of the old long gone railway trackbed over the big roundabout near to booths supermarket, and off over the fields all the way to its destinations. sometimes its a tree line, an embankment, or just a shaddow on a field, but its all still there if you have a mind to see it.

[El Toro]

Facinating link! Ta...I lived in upper Penwortham as a teen.....

Be safe!

[johnr]

another link here. ive been looking for ths for a while, as i remembered somewhere a link about cop lane railway station, and here is is, with plenty of pictures of the station in its heyday!

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~bradshaw...Penwortham.html

interestingly, this article says that cop lane station wasnt opened till 1911, which means that if the correspondents relative was a stationmaster in C1900 then it probably wasnt at penwortham!

This post has been edited by johnr: 14 February 2010 - 03:34 AM