As well as providing much of the text for the new Parbold Station History Poster and some of the voices for the Virtual History Poster, Mark Dowding has also very kindly allowed us to use some audio files that record the memories of people who worked on and around stations in the Parbold and surrounding area.
The audio files are from a project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund around ten years ago for The Lancashire Society called ‘The Noise We Mek’ which focused on the way people speak around Lancashire. The files remain the copyright of the Lancashire Society and may not be used without permission. Click on the audiograms below to hear some of the history of Parbold Station.
Parbold Station: Wigan Train Fare – Jack Heaton
Ormskirk Station: Rule 55 Explained – Frank McLoughlin
Burscough Station: Apprenticeship – Alan Rylance
Blackburn Station Codes – Barrie Nowell
Adlington Station: Dad a Signalman – Irene Valentine
Parbold Station: Lighting the Signals – Jack Heaton
Parbold Station: Lighting the Oil Lamps – Jack Heaton
Parbold Station: Joan Wilson Remembers
Parbold Station: Staff Goods Yard – Jack Heaton
Parbold Station: Euphemia Goodger Remembers
Parbold: Quarry Tramway – Jack Heaton
Parbold Station: Waiting for the Bell – Jack Heaton
Parbold Station: People Turn Up in the Snow – jack Heaton
Parbold Station Ambulance – Jack Heaton
Parbold Station: A Beeching Closure – Jack Heaton
Some faces of the characters that you have heard speaking in the audiograms above:
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- Frank McLoughlin
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- Tom Leatherbarrow
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- Joan Wilson
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- Ephemia Goodger
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- Jack Heaton
