Shirley Matthews
Shirley Matthews B.A. (hons)
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NEW BOOK OUT OCTOBER 2009!
A BOLTON CHILDHOOD: GROWING UP IN A LANCASHIRE MILL TOWN .
CARNEGIE PUBLISHERS LANCASTER
WRITTEN BY SHIRLEY CLARKE/MATTHEWS B.A. (hons)
Fully illustrated and colour front cover, price £8 ish
The true stories of Charles Allen Clarke, as a little half-timer, and his childhood adventures in and around the mills of Bolton, and brief respites from Bull Sidings for the poor on the Queens Town Mission train to Lytham and Blackpool in the 1800s. A lively read of as Allen says, (A schoolboy's joys and schoolboy's troubles) bringing in all the emotions of happiness and sadness and first hand experiences of family life in Victorian England.
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Shirley holding original 1916 'Windmill Land' written by her Grandfather
Charles Allen Clarke. Shirley was interviewed for BBC Radio Lancashire
with Steve Becker. To listen to Shirley, the web site is:
www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/content/articles/2006/09/05/
steve_windmills_feature.shlml
To read the EBook interview use the link below to the Gazette web site:
www.lep-co.uk/blackpool-news/pages-of-famous-fylde-book.4523942.jp
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STOP PRESS....
BLACKPOOL CIVIC TRUST CHAIRMAN ELAINE SMITH
IS TO RECEIVE AN M.B.E. FOR ALL THE WORK SHE HAS DONE FOR BLACKPOOL.
ELAINE IS ALSO A BIG SUPPORTER OF LITTLE MARTON WINDMILL.
( ELAINE AND PAT HANSELL WERE THE FOUNDERS OF THE BEGINNING
OF, THE FRIENDS OF LITTLE MARTON WINDMILL GROUP)
CONTACT: CHAIRMAN ELAINE SMITH. www.blackpoolcivictrust.org.uk
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Shirley Matthews and her grandaughter Ella Taylor
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Your Say
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Your Say
An interview about the Fylde's windmills for
National Mills Weekend with Gazette collumnist Jackie Morley (The Blackpool Gazette Newspaper are staunch supporters of Allen Clarke and Little Marton Windmill)
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There are plans to have a blue plaque put on the grade II listed 'Little Marton Windmill,' in the future.
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Peter Jackson the owner of Conelius Bagot's house on Whitegate Drive with the Mayor 2007 Councillor Robert Wynne, Shirley Matthews, Allen Clarke's grandaughter and Peter Bagot, grandson of Cornelius Bagot.
At the unveiling of a plaque commemerating A. Clarke's connection to Cornelius Bagot and Little Marton Windmill.
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Lytham Heritage
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Lytham Heritage Exhibition
The Mayor of the Fylde, Madam Mayor of Bolton with Shirley Matthews and Allen Clarke's niece, Rosalie Coulthard
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Shirley Matthews in the Cap of Clifton Windmill (Windmill Tavern)
A wonderful experience seeing the surviving machinery still intact after all these years. A priviledge to look at although it was extremely dark and lots of ladders were needed.
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Shirley - Cheers for 2009
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MORE GRIST TO THE MILL
Cheers to all windmllians and watermill enthusiasts in 2009
Shirley xx
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22 September 2009, shirley