Hello I like many people came across your website while researching my family tree.
I come from Staffordshire and believed that there was only one longton. I was researching my family and could not find any birth records for Emma Barnes, her birth place was stated as longton and being from staffs thought that it was the longton in my local area. however i now believe that she came from your longton. she was born in 1866 and her mothers maiden name i think was kirkham, unfortunately i can't find any census information so if anyone has any information perhaps even a census address i would be most grateful. Thank you

Hi Andrew,  Thanks for your reply and best regards to your mum. Tell her i remember her uncle Giles very well he used to run with his dog Ginger down Caddies Croft every morning, they have since invented jogging. Ido not wish to become a nuisance contributor but because the discovery  of your website has given me so much pleasure and brought back so many forgoten memories ( How could anybody forget Tommy Tush ) soi thought if i liested some names from my last year at Longton Council School it may bring back some happy memories to others.    
Betty Banks,  Kathleen Wells, Helen Hunter, Muriel Hamilton, Audrey Bell, Jane Dewhurst, Jean Pickles Kathleen Wright, Joan Wright, Joan Atkinson, Margeret Vaughen, Norman Harrison, George Tuson, Ron Waring, Roy Tilling,  Arthur Collins, George Baxendale, JIim Sutcliffe, John Bond, Charles Eastham, Keith Hogg, Tom Blackett, Fred Cairnes, John Rouse, Jack Wrigh,t Peter Heyes, Reg Crookhall, Dennis Croasdale.  I left school in December1942. 
And just two more memory joggers 
1  The nine o clock shunt.  This was the goods train that arrived at Longton Bridge every evening to collect empty rail trucks. During this operation the driver sounded his hooter and in the summer months lots of us kids were told to come home off the rec when we heard the whistle. 
2) Anyone remember those magnificient Shire Stallions owned by Dick Sutton as they were taken by their grooms to and from Longton Bridge.

I stumbled upon your website today it is great it took me back to the place where i spent the happiest time of my life.  The 1935  article was great i knew every person mentioned in it.   I am Jack Moxham  we lived at Fylde Cottage on Liverpool Road.  I used to deliver milk round the village for Nick Sutton of Park Farm i stated when i was ten years old(1938)  and when i left school at 14 i worked at Park Farm for 9 years.  All the girls in the Folk Dance team mentioned in the article were in my class at Longton Council School.  HAPPY DAYS

Hi There,
I have just found out that my father Lawrence Bond the car designer, was born in Longton.  His father was Frederick Charles Bond and mother was Margaret Bond nee Morphy.  My father was born in 1907 and it is rather unlikely that anyone is still around who knew the family, but if there is any record of their existence please could you email me with it? I long to learn more about them.
Thank you so much for your time.
Viki (Bond)

Longton Hoodies appear to have grown up at last, although it can't have been easy for them never really sure if mummy was going to pick them up from the Spar or if they might have to make the 5 minute walk home alone...

The 'new bridge' was referred too at the recent SRBC Western Parishes Area Committee and a stumbling block highlighted.  The proposal is for a FIXED bridge, which could interfere with the navigation of the River Douglas and would therefore possibly be illegal, apart from the interference to river traffic.  Could be a bit of mileage before it is built, but by then the LCC would have committed your council tax to something that could never happen.  Has someone not seen the wood for the trees here?

I have just heard that a new bridge over the River Douglas is being proposed by a Lancashire County Council etc organisation and a Royal Institute of British Architects competition for the design has been launched. Don't get too excited because it is not to carry road traffic, but apparently would be a foot/cycle/bridleway bridge. I still think it sounds very interesting 

The route proposed is the old railway line bridge over the Douglas. The bridge itself no longer exists but the end points are still there to see where the new bridge would be, approximately Altys at Hesketh Bank and the far end of Haunders Lane Little Hoole (near St Michaels) at our side.

Fuller details are on the website www.heskethbank.com/news