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The Joseph Cross Convalescent Home now forms part of Wyre Civic Centre.
The house named Woodlands was thought to be around 200 years old (the white Georgian style building at the front of the site).
Woodlands shown on the 25″ Ordnance Survey map published in 1892.
During the 1890s Woodlands was occupied by Judge Henry Isaacson Parry, the Registrar of Lancashire County Court, who remained there for 28 years.
In 1897 Judge Parry built a new entrance to the property known as the Jubilee Arch (in celebration of Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee). The Arch was demolished in 1964.
In 1919 the house was sold to the Halliwell family.
In 1927 the house was sold, this time to the Amalgamated Weaver’s Association of Blackburn and Darwen, who wanted to build a convalescent home for their union members.
The extent of the Joseph Cross convalescent home as shown on the 25″ Ordnance Survey map published in 1932.
A postcard possibly from the days when they were a penny (1d) plain, or tuppence (2d) coloured.
A postcard possibly from the days when they were a penny (1d) plain, or tuppence (2d) coloured.
A springtime view of Joseph Cross Convalescent Home.
Part of Wyre Civic Centre in its days as a convalescent home.
