If you live in Wyre, you’ve probably walked past more history than you’ve ever read about. The windmill at Thornton. The market cross at Garstang. The names on Fleetwood’s war memorial. The streets you grew up on.
Enjoy our online collection: The silverware, the photographs, the deeds, the council regalia, the stories from the people who lived through them.
If you have your own Wyre Heritage story to tell or can add to our knowledge, please get in touch.
Five towns, each with their own story. Hundreds of objects from the Wyre Council collections, photographed, catalogued, and in some cases rebuilt as interactive 3D models you can rotate and walk around. The deeds and maps that explain how the borough became the borough. The names of the people whose decisions, inventions, and ordinary working lives shaped the place.
You can wander through it the way you’d wander through Garstang on a Saturday morning. Start where you like, double back, get sidetracked, and find something you weren’t looking for.
Council regalia is interesting. The people who polished it, presented it, and argued over what should be done with it are more interesting still.
This is where the social history sits. The trawlermen who left Fleetwood at dawn and didn’t always come back. The women who ran businesses, councils, and classrooms in a century that didn’t always let them. The fishermen, the postmistresses, the teachers, the campaigners. Some of their names are in the records. Many aren’t. Both kinds matter.
The collections in this archive came from one place. The stories about them come from everywhere.
If you’ve got a photograph, a memory, a document, or a story that belongs here, we’d like to see it. The Share Your Story page is where it goes. We read everything. The site is better for what gets added to it, and worse for what stays in shoeboxes.
Wyre Council
Civic Centre, Breck Road, Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, FY6 7PU
Email:
heritage@wyre.gov.uk
