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PRICES,WAGES AND POPULATIONS IN THE I

NINETEENTH CENTURY: A STUDY OF WARTON PARISH: Part H

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Geoff Gregory

ORAL HISTORY: Mrs. RUTH BADLEY nec LOY I I

John Findlater

THE HARTLEY FAMILY"

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Malcolm Hartley Q ® NOTICES 26

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MAP OF CARNFORTH VENUE 28

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Mourholme Local History Sociely (Charity Reg. N0. 512765)

covers the Old Parish of Warton conmining the 7`ownshzps of

Warmn-w1`!h—Lindeth, Silverdale. Borwiclq Priest Hutton,

Carnforth. Yealand Conyers and Yealami Redmnyne.

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PRICES, WAGES AND POPULATIONS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: A STUDY OF WARTON PARISH.

Geoffrey Gregory

Part II. Village Populations

Throughout the nineteenth century Warton parish remained essentially agricultural with a high proportion of the l population engaged in farming and its dependent crahs, trades`

and businesses. The advent of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway in 1846 and subsequent rail links with Fumess and Yorkshire brought about a significant change in goods transport, previously obliged to use road and canal routes. As a result the latter half of the century saw the development of Carnforth as a railway centre. There followed the setting up of the Carnforth I-Iaematite Iron Company (1866), and the continued prosperity of` existing mining and quarrying ventures in the area. The manner in which these changes manifested themselves in terms of village populations is the subject of this article.

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\ Ruth Loy was bom March 20th, 1920 at 40 Market 1 / y Street, Carnforth . She was bom in a room above the draper’s .

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_ Hrst put his hand out demanding they surrender any matches Loy. revolved Mound the C¤¤zrss¤¤i<>¤¤l Churqhr =sv¤¤¤§¤llY they had. others &iends and playmates included Margaret Saturday night socials, doing plays and $0¤’1€um°$ 8_ lmhi Weeks (later Garth see magazine), whom she had known all her dancing and Sunday School ; Mr Buxton was the hm hhhlgmr life, who became active in the Guides (run by Mrs Ruth she remembers and he was followed by Mr Towers mfummg Jackson, Dr. Edward Jackson’s wife) but Ruth never joined; for a second spell. There were happy Tlmcs Wahdimhg °“ Marion Scott (later Chalmers), who went oiT to Barrow during Warton Crag; when Mr Loy bflught a ca? lh {925 HWY W°hh`l the war years and was active in the Congregational church, go to the Lakes on Bank H0lldaY$ and l-hc fsrmly managed °h° being one of the ‘main ones’ in many plays there; Marie week 0¤ l10lld¤Y lh RhYl but 0lh€1’Wi$€ having l-he Sh°P kelh Dearden (later Gregson) a butcher’s daughter; the Bristow girls, them at home. She Was allowed to g° lh the R°XY Clhcma lh whose father was the Co-op butcher; and Marion Wilkinson Carnforth on a Saturd¤Y ¤h°*`h°°h~ This cinema was mh bY |· (now Russell -—see Mourholme magazine 2003-4, No 2 ) Weeks, Margaret Ga-Ythis father (See Mm-lYh°lm° Maghzmc slightly older and to be honest somewhat intimidating. From 2001-2002, No 3), the newsagent. those days she remembers best, Ernie Just, the plumber, ‘old’

Dr Jackson, Dr Edward (Jackson) and 11is wife Ruth (an Ruth has 3 elw ¤1¢m0i’Y of ahchdlhg a °°Y°m°hY= al a American lady), ‘Bubbles’ and ‘Chitty’ Jackson (nieces of Dr

very Y0¤¤S 88*% but ll ¤¤¤’l have b¤¢¤ the wif! Mehwhhl Edward), as well as ‘Butcher’ Williams and Harry Himsworth , unveiling because that occurred iii l920 a°°°l"hhg t° J°hh her father’s cousin, who was a grocer at the bottom of New Easter Roberts, a local historian (Old Carnfonh)- She aim

Street. The Queen’s Hotel (situated next to the shop block on remembers very Well observing ¤°liVltY at ths h’°h“’°h‘S· the lower side of Market Street) publican, whose name escapes though she could not see it from home, from Scotland Road she hu., was very kind and good to the children round About but he ¤0¤ld See h°gl°S hcihg mh J·° J-hc th? Of the h*mh°°S wd upp°d was not much liked by people in the town for some unkown with flames l°aPl¤8 hPWm’d$· Shc d°°s h°t_*`°m°mb°r much reason. He let the children have boniires there. pollution from the Ironworks though plainly rt must have been

considerable. Perhaps because it pslsd beside the swfsl Smsll In was Run wm from Sami to mage ; to sdgamn from the cattle auction market lying i1’!1H1¤d¤¤t¤lY behlhd th° Teacher Training College at Orrnskirk, but a year later, when Sh°P lh the ma how 0°°uPl°d bY supemlatkch

the place was taken for use as a hospital because of the war, _

· the college students were evacuated to Bingley Teacher Her especial friend was MN'! Cvmtliwmts °f C°°k1° Training College in West Yorkshire for the second year. She

Hall (beyond Thwaite Gate on the opposite side ofthe canal to than took up a job teaching in Mimchcsmr Then She married cmg Bank), hu smudfathsrr MT hhhmdis farm- This hmhght George Badley, a boy she had knovm trom childhood, at the back memories of tramps being hequent in the area; farmer

Ireland was quite willing to allow them to sleep in his barns but

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Congregational Church. George had trained in Manchester THEHARTLEY FAMILY

for the ministry.Malcolm Hartley

Ruth and George went to live at Great Harwood where The firm of John Hanley & Co., of Warton Parish was

he had been appointed congregational minister. They were built up and disappeared in just over 100 years. The reason for

there until 1960 — 17 years in all. She had two childen there and l the decline and final demise has never been clear but it seems

taught a little (supply teaching) but admits that she felt I

likely that the decline, as the rise, of the business was linked to

inadequate as a minister’s wife. The post was not very well- local economics. In the same period Carnforth boomed and

paid so the family moved back to live at the Market Street shop then sufered depression.

and George went to teach R.E. and sport at Morecambe

Grammar School. Mrs. Loy, Ruth’s mother had died in 1940 , Early family and the Start of the Business

but her father was still alive. The shop was being run by ‘Dot’ John Hartley (Junior-1792-1853), together with Richard

Woods until she married, then by Alice Ireland and Betty Simm, is understood to have started a grocery business in the

Sutton. Ruth did not like doing the shop and took up a teaching Kendal area. The date of the establishment of John Hartley&

post at the Ridge school in Lancaster, which was a rough area Co. is noted on the tirm’s headed notepaper as 1825.

but tlae children were ‘lovely’. In 1964 Ruth lkad a third child,

Rache , but quite soon afterwards got back to teaching leaving The business moved into the·Carnforth area in about

much of Rachel’s care to her shop assistants. 1850; by then, it is said, already being well known as ‘Kenda1’s

Bakers and Confectioners’. They supposedly did a large trade,

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songehrgxt; a little isolated living above the shop supplying food for gangs of men employed in extending the

in et treet. S e er thinks that the railway community Midland Railway and converting the Fumess line from single

formed a rather separate group in the town, as had the \ to double track. John Hartley, the son of the founder of the

Ironworkers in the earlier part of her life. These latter people on business, is understood to have previously represented Thomas

gaeiwahlole seemed rather poorer folk and were notable for their '

Robinson, Wholesale Grocers, an old Kendal tinn, and is

Eua8°· — thought to have taken over the business in 1860. If this were so,

he would have been only 19 years old. In 1863, when much of

George died rather suddenly in 1988 and Ruth moved present Carnforth was green helds, premises were taken near

to her present home in Crag Bank. the small railway ‘halt’ on the site of the present railway

station. A move to Millhead (Warton) followed with expansion of the business and development of the station.

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In this period, the second half of the l9"‘ century, grandfather williaiu Hem-y Hartley lived at number 4 and Carnforth and Millhead were transformed not only by the although I de not remember him, [ visited the house oiten construction and employment opportunities on the railway but when Tony (Menrholme Magazine 2002-2003, No 3) and by the development of the Ironworks. Initially smaller than Mulch Chalmcrslivcd there Warton, the population of Camforth grew from 294 in 1851 to

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304l in l9Ol· Al ‘l“l°t wml “l'°a hcccorc a °°““° °f The stables were in the centre of Millhead, behind communication and industry, with attendant high-density

Sthihmh Sheet and the fhmily also had a piggery, which Seems terrace housing and despoliation of the countryside with

to have caused Some problems, A previous Mourholmc q“‘”l`Ylllg· S*¤v=l Plls md slag llPs·

Magazine has told how in 1890, Edward Barton took up with the Rural Sanitary Authority, the ‘nuisance’ of badly drained

In 1872 the first hundred terrace houses for the privies and Some 20 pigs kept by Mr Hartley. Mr Barton arglwd Ironworks had been completed in Millhead and by the l880s, that me Lancaster Banking Company, who owned the land John Hartley Co. had built alarge shop, warehouse and bakery where the pigs were kept, should put their property in good

just north ofthe River Keer, with another shop at the crossroads cnndinem especially as this was "needed as an example to in Carnforth. Both were imposing three storey stone buildings Others? This may have been instrumental in moving the with rounded hontages typical of Carnforth architecture. The piggery Eom Carlisle Terrace to Kellet Road, Carnforth, whcrc family residence, Millhead House was integral with the Mary (May) Hanley remembers it, commercial premises. The lront door to the house was onto

Mill Lane the Carnforth/Warton road with an archway also Ah Miele ·Mlllllcad* by Harry Bennet in ‘Keer to Kent’ going hctwccn thc shop md bakery through rc ¤ courtyard and (March/June 1990), me magazine ofthe Amana an siiversne the residential part. There was also a gate into the garden from AONB Landsmpg Trnsg records that; Mill Lrmc lc¤<li¤g to thc coach hcusc and scrvc¤¢¤’ ¢1¤¤¤¤rS· A me Harney family dominated mzzhrud in u rather unique way. large room known as the pillar room on the first floor spread John Hartley a sryrrr Quaker grocer and baker arrived here in from the house over the shop. The property as a whole took up lg; 5 andprnspergd imo property, which included gravel pits. the wllolc block to Bock Albert Slmcl and ll? tc what is mw At the peak of his business his descendants employed scores of Rl·lP€l’l Sl¥Y°°Y·

workers, from conjlzctioners, bakers, shop assistants and errand boys to quarrymen, drivers and even two men who went

In the cally 1900s 8 Plot ohovc thc EFaV¤l Pit at round the farms and cottages between the rivers Kent Keer Millhead and known as Great Mill Heads, was developed by and Lune, drumming up business and taking orders; in those John W. Hartley of the next generation. Four properties were prmmoyor days they went on foot and cycle, or by train. In the built at Park View and taken over by the family. My

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Incluslzzgg ul:dB"Sm*?ss dying of tuberculosis at the age of 17.

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and Mary had th;’CP€ chu; tg? as a second forename, John

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brought imo the business Jig/Il of whom were eventually buying for the grocery side ofthe business but was certainly in

George bows] Wilson W l Son [*-1839, Jvlm b.1841 and charge of the gravel pits, which in later years still traded as

business- By the wl lgoags ah teacher before entering the John W. Hartley when managed by the Baker family

resident (Memoirs Ofg Hume iwas described by a local (Mourholme Magazine 2003-2004, No 3). He married Caroline

reminded me of Ab my

L_ 1*;- QMPWY Wilson, who Comelia (‘Carrie’) Moore from the lsle of Man and lived in

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with a wrspy white beard, Millhead House. Carrie had been brought up by her uncle in

Swpsta Gem th g ° W °<}’¤1<>¤g With quick short the Isle of Man before coming to England and doing Christian

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into thebusmess at a later stage. John and George married the

?(:::i1;’Sg;”éul;m;;S uTu;d ”¥0;h¢ dagughters of Richard Simm, co- Also involved in the business was the younger brother,

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°; Jqhn Hanley and Margaret death William Henry remarried this time to Rose Wilkinson.

John Hanley aged 40 frgm 11; eialusmess. In the 1881 census,

He managed the stalT and accounts of the grocery side ofthe

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bom in Omm and th had°‘t':£;Ym8 17 hands. Hrs wife was Homes were at 3 Oxford Street, Carnforth; Corduff House,

Son had died) ages CB1;

0 14 sons and two daughters (one Coach road, Warton and then 4 Park View, Millhead. He had a

apprentices two scrvamsm d t° _3 Years. There were two built up shoe because of an injury falling off a truck in the First

nurse gm. hwy were , fi

Omelsatf servant and a 24 year old World War and in later years he suffered from Bright’s

children are buried :*8;***

a Q ¢1' family and most of the (kidney) disease.

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Simm in l857S;:$. cglfmts wa? w°*'k°d by Margaret Ann Little is known of the other children. George Forrest

is Su m uw f“muY· (Suckie) is said to have had mental problems after falling down

the hoist shalt at the shop and banging his head. It is

understood that he got the nickname of ‘Suckie’ because he

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The Rise and Fm ofthe Business enormously during the latter part of the 19 century but in the

Marion Russelps book “HOw Camf ten year period from 1901 to 1911 an increase of only 102 was

Sjmpgc Outline to 1900 AD,, Ecards tha? (mh G¤¢w¤ A recorded. The town’s rapid growth had halted. Trade at the

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Camfb"h,sfm_’ local telephone was ins!-Vlflg M lawn ana Furness had dried up and steel production ended. Iron ore

M0 shops were connected in 1881 Vhefirm S production using ore imported lrorn Spam continued but with

wsu known as the best catering in _

‘h°Y Wm only some six blast furnaces working at any one time there

[hat, Hanleyk ejmency was given a u _

smcl md ¤¤t¤s were redundancies and in 1929 the tronworks closed down.

hour ,s mace [hey were asked I0 I

nzque test when at one

regiment Ofhighhmd tmc dur ”‘PPJ’ ~W·f?€¤{m€¢f0r a whole With grocery shops at Millhead, Carnforth, Burton and

milway smug". me soldiis Bolton-le-Sands, the bakery and catering business, a cooked

had Occupied in 1882) Hume 3 0d SWF (Which Brxtam meat shop near Carnforth Station and gravel pits at Millhead,

,0;,,,,, (am, NO slim, Lando" OnP“”*’

_

'he mf Wh jiymg North Road, camromr and Lunds mem, camrorur, one would

as manyas 6 000 people G, Sh °‘j""“’°”·" HWY ~*”PPh€df0f have thought that the family should have thrived. Perhaps too

' g eryTSk"e·°· many bills were not paid during the depression, perhaps too

. _ many people were living off the business and perhaps changes

and M;;0t:eRc:;l s;u£20gf¤i?;bbu;0'1;(°i;iW” gb“°u$lY b001¤i¤g needed to be made, but whatever, the businesses did not survive

into the 20°“ Century" records

ow amforth Steamed the period between the two World Wars. The boom period for

1909..771ere was keen rivalry Fr mma b I

Carnforth was certainly over by this time. From 1932 the gravel

two biggesr grace". Hanley} had the rm emfee" Ca"”f0VYh S pits were operated by a limited company, Jolm W. lelartley Ltd.,

weak best cmerem havmgfmr mm deglufliflvnfor being our and the Baker family subsequently took a controlling interest.

when they had Supplied fwd hr fh F'”“{“ here W 1863 The next generation was never brought into the grocery side of

byydjng Ou, [Om] railways who were the business and it ceased to trade as John Hartley and Co in

,

h b_ -

_

H had less than 400 the 1930s. tn a rtants and no shops of any size. Both Hartley 's (ar [hg

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*‘ rmu e , t hi

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,

1...gr...., .,..1 1.. family .ai’.`.?.Z.12.2,

V ...°‘E1.L”‘}§r’“'3*}»*iiq‘“S ms the *8****1 mma More me We we

William H. Hartley lag park View in 1938 with il; sccomg and includes the establishment of a new and separate business

. . . .

# H wtfealfiose and farmly, and lived in rented accommodation

by my fathch Puiiti y at Woodplurnpton then at 148 Tulketh Road, Ashton , .

f eaiorrlwhere he med in 1941. He is burma in me w11k1‘ ¤s1»ri

My Pamm fG°°°"°°” 1 bo 1906

__¤:1;1l_ y p ot at Woodplumpmn My ather Henry Coup and Hanley, m in , was ................................................ the youngest of six children bom to William Henry Hartley

and Clara Eleanor Coupland.

wr

~—-T.-Tg; |;,€ William Forrest was bom in 1898 and died of diphtheria

I _

·| = at the age of 12. He together with a cousin Bessie Baker and a

ii-land from the Whinnerah family had been taken to visit a

_. ,,;*,&;4 .| Q L |_ » —: |,::5 ·

.¢_ Q;| family at Clawthorpe where there was illness and they all three .

:__ —~a,·,_,.»: 1. g_·

_

.»/sagirw, died

,| Mary (May) born 1899 and Clara Cornelia (Comic) __

| .1 born 1902, both went to Aekworth, a Quaker Boarding School

(,2; 3 “¤~|’| 1| (Founded 1779) at Ponteiract in West Yorkshire, where a

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|E | __

‘

_;i.;—. ·j_L| relative Mary Hartley was headmistress. May married Will `»-

_ _ Richmond in l927 and went to Nigeria as One of the earliest " ` J`

missionaries with the Sudan United Mission. She is now in

_ r

_

Oaktield Nursing Home at Forton but mentally very alert at 105

Mmhcad House (thc Hardcfs Sho years old. Corrie mamed Nathamel Fox who became amuuster

p and home) d · my T [nani (Drawn from a photograph by D. Dakeyne.

an cmlgra to as ai

John Beetham and Agnes Irene (Rene) were twins bom in 1905. John Beetham died at birth or soon alter. Rene trained

as a nurse and worked in Blackbum. Latterly she lived near

Morecambe Grammar School as companion to sisters of the family of Edmondson Builders in Morecambe and died in 1970.

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manager, referring to be

My father had worked for the tamily firm as a boy My father ;;;dchve,mg_p He was known

delivering with a horse and cart, and then as a traveller. He was Out On th? I°?d wl ccmig bccausc of the long hours he worked

living at Millhead House when he was married to Elinor Carter, as ‘the midnight gmc?

1. c vans a cm. and mobilg shop' . He

of a farming family at Field House, Pilling. They set up home

mvhhoihei- did the books. Tl1¢

in a new bungalow near to Warton Grange at Town End, had P mamgcr m

thai P sc bcsix Oi eight,

Warton, and the deposit of £5 on this is recorded as rs"' maximum Smgwcul

’ Suppo ’

September, 1936. My father was not given a say in the running ·

w_ Hartley, Millhead

of John Hartl¢y and Co. but grocery was the only thing that he Th° °ld

fmilgybhcii niz ;;d`:;.;1 h famiiy in my youth.

knew and an unknown benefactor loaned him money to start his Housq was Occuplc da

y ter of John and Carrie, had in 1927

own business, known simply as H.C.Hartley — Grocers. His Madge Hanley, the ugh a newcomer to the district. This

shop was at the top of Edward Street, Carnforth.

§"‘r‘“°d dggiegveldidiggscwlith May Hanley and Will Richmond, emg a

·

lace at St.

Much of the business, as with the old limi, was with whi¢h, Sli1'¤¤S°lY for

E gwggnmgibfgmsiw Canhhs

farmers and home delivery. Delivery was, of course, by then Qswakrs C °fE chu§cM;i

c hveii at Park View early in th¤i¤’

with motor vehicles; two Renault vans were, by the end of mHuFncc·Rcnd?l1$h?

Isl if Man before moving back into

World War II, on their last legs and replacement of one by an mzimagq than m c

tge 6 years Madge lived there with

ex-US Army ambulance vehicle was exciting to me as a small Mluhcafi H°us°‘ In my

hcrmgmis were no longer alive and

boy. Perpetuating the old finn’s idea of "You order it, we can Eve chlldnm |y thgn bi kvgatcr fever whijst on leave hom

get it”, my father would pop down the back street between Rendelhhad qlcd °_

aiglodd Wm IL The property was used

Edward Street and New Street to the back entrance of the Co- s°“"°° m Africa dum]?

hour and other provisions during tht?

op to fill any gaps in an order. This despite the documented as a govm-mmm store

gr out of family ownership by then or,

rivalry between the old firm and the Co—op. Made up orders War and must have pas

1 1950s For- a period it was a Slipper

were Packed in old cardboard boxes and laid out on the floor at the latcst by the y clcémd and houses erected in the

through the back shop for loading in order, the vans being

Tgggry b°f°re the me was

literally stacked to the roof Thursday was a big day with S`

‘ - 1 Yealand l:radesrnen’S

deliveries to boarding houses at Morecambe being virtually * see M°mP°lmqlMagmne 1998 No wholesale orders. The Jungle Café on Shap was a separate Vans (Cress1daMr es) delivery claimed by me as a new driver, the vehicle in the 1950s now being either a pre-war crash gearbox Riley or an up- to-date Bedford with sliding doors.

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Autumn 2004 December 9m Christmas Meeting. Buffet.

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And Cumbria. Mr. & Mrs, Fancy

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Mr. Varley, Friends of the Lake District

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