14-Jun-2002, 06:19 PM
According to my brother Colin (who used to be a reporter for the Lancashire Evening Post) the big old house that used to be where QuikSave's parking lot is now, was the HQ for Leyland Construction Company and was called Wellfield House. The company was created towards the end of WW2 to build what became Spurrier Works. The Secondary Modern school was named after the house.
The chairman of the company was Thomas (later Sir Thomas) Hargreaves, who lived in the cream-colored stucco house that is hidden in the trees next to the May Field (going up Church Road towards Balshaw's), opposite Wellington House.
They built a bit after the war, including Hargreaves Avenue, where my family lived when Eileen and I were married.
Not sure when the company closed down, but presumably had done so before QuikSave came along. I have vague memories of the house being derelict.
Frank Damp
Anacortes, WA, USA
The chairman of the company was Thomas (later Sir Thomas) Hargreaves, who lived in the cream-colored stucco house that is hidden in the trees next to the May Field (going up Church Road towards Balshaw's), opposite Wellington House.
They built a bit after the war, including Hargreaves Avenue, where my family lived when Eileen and I were married.
Not sure when the company closed down, but presumably had done so before QuikSave came along. I have vague memories of the house being derelict.
Frank Damp
Anacortes, WA, USA
Frank Damp (wife Eileen, nee Nixon)
Leyland resident 1941-1965, emigrated to the US in 1968,
retired to Anacortes, Washington State, USA in 1999.
Leyland resident 1941-1965, emigrated to the US in 1968,
retired to Anacortes, Washington State, USA in 1999.