Lancaster Visitor Information Centre The Storey, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster, LA1 1TH T: 01524 582394 E: [email protected] W: visitlancaster.org.uk 1 & Heysham CAPTAIN ESSEX REGIMENT, MISS WHALLEY’S FIELD wounded and missing 1 December Skerton to Crook O’Lune, MISS WHALLEY’S FIELD 2 Find out more andRiver Lune Migetllennium involved...Park 1917, died of wounds in a German and Lune Aqueduct CENTENARY EVENT Field Hospital, France, 3, December, 1917, age 33. CENTENARY EVENT - 3 December 2017 3 December 2017 The event will be from 10.30am until 11.30am.Retail Park There www.misswhalleysfield.org.uk Regular3 Officer 1905-1908, resigned will be an introduction at 10.50 before a bugler will Quay play the last post. This will be followed by a poetry and travelled in USA Meadowand Canada, reading by a pupil from CentralAyre High School and a few een Gr and enlisted at Lancaster UK in words from the Mayor ofSkate Park Lancaster who will unveil the 1915. Unmarried, a keen golfer, member of Lancaster specially commissioned new plaque to commemorate the Retail Park and Morecambe Golf4 member of Lancaster and centenary. Morecambe Golf Clubs, President of Lancashire Superstore HERITAGE OPEN DAYS PREVIEW - 9 September 2017 Golf Union in 1911. Vicarage Field Buses & Taxis . Join us fromonly 10 – 4pmD at the Gregson Centre, Moorgate R H T R to find out more NaboutO Miss Whalley , her legacy and Only son of the late Colonel J Lawson Whalley, JP, Long 5 Stay connectionsBuses & Taxis across the city of Lancaster Colonel Commandant of 3 & 4 Battalions, Kings only Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, and of Lady Ashton, also step son of Lord Ashton of Ryelands, Cinema LANCASTER VISITOR Long Skerton. INFORMATION CENTRE 6 Stay e Gregson Th et Street Centre Storey Mark Bashful Alley MISS Sir Simons Arcade WHALLEY’S FIELD Long 7 Stay Long Stay Buses & Taxis only Magistrates 8 Court MISS FRANCES GERALDINE WHALLEY Long In 1938 Miss Whalley bequeathed a sum of money FRIENDS OF MISS WHALLEY’SStay FIELD to purchase a piece of land in accordance with the We are a small voluntary community group established provisions of the Recreation9 Grounds Act 1859 ‘for in 2015. Our aim is to preserve and protect the green the use and enjoyment and benefit exclusively or space known as Miss Whalley’s Field. For more Canal Cruise information visit us on Facebook or visit our website . mainly of children residing in the said Borough of Find out more about Miss Whalley , her legacy BMI Lancaster’. Hospital and connections across the city of Lancaster... Support & Funding Partners: University 10 Hospital of Cumbria visitors The land acquired in 1951 and shortly afterwards, by an order of the Minister of Education, trusteeship of the land together with an endowment fund for its Lancaster Green Spaces upkeep, was transferred11 to Lancaster Corporation, to be held in perpetuity as public ground. Disclaimer: Details correct at time of publishing. AB CDEFG H Ashton Memorial, Williamson Park Lancaster Cemetery, Quernmore Road St. Luke’s Church, Skerton Quermore Road, Lancaster, LA1 1UX Quernmore Road, Lancaster, LA1 3JT Slyne Rd, Lancaster, LA1 2HU Built in Williamson Park, originally a quarry, Visit the grave of Miss Frances Geraldine Whalley The local church of the Ashton Family, adorned looking across the wonderful Morecambe Bay to the in Lancaster Cemetery established in 1855 on a with a large stained glass window along with other Lake District Fells , created by James Williamson & hillside site enjoying dramatic views over the interesting plaques dedicated to the Whalley’s his father. He married Florence Whalley (later Lady city of Lancaster & Miss Whalley’s Field. The family. Ashton) in 1909 , the mother of Frances Geraldine chapels were designed by the prominent Lancaster Whalley & Julian Whalley Architect Edward Paley , who was also responsible for the lodges built there. Miss Whalley’s Filed, Derwent Rd, LA1 3EU Left in trust for the benefit of the children of Lancaster in memory of her brother Julian Whalley. This green space covering 5.8 acres is enjoyed on a daily basis by members of the public and gives great views over to the city to Lancaster Castle.