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Leighton Hall - Home of the Gillow furniture making family, set in 80 acres of grounds and parkland.
Carnforth Station - The history of Carnforth station, and nearby railways from 1846 to the present.
Over Kellet Village - Includes information, history, accommodation, sport, photographs and contact details.
Netherbeck - A holiday park on the Lancashire and Cumbria border, where the mobile homes are owned rather than hired.
Holgates Caravan Park - Facilities for touring, camping and holiday homes for sale or hire.
Carnforth Online - Local website for news, views, sport, business and events in and around the Carnforth area.
Friends Of Carnforth Station - About Carnforth railway station and its rejuvenation.
You&Me - Yoga site containing training, programmes, testimonials, pilot projects, teaching materials, membership, price list, course, venues and fees.
Burton News - Online version of the village magazine for the area. Lists council news, letters, history and a search facility.
Carnforth Area Community Portal - Information for the local area, for the benefit of visitors and residents alike.
Broadband4Carnforth.co.uk - The website is the focus point of a local community campaign to raise awareness of broadband in the area. It explores all the options including ADSL and wireless community networks.
Holme Parish Council - The website for Holme Parish Council. Contains the parish council information, parish plan and village information.
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Humphrey Carnforth You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli Carnforth "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. -- Typewriting exercise Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein Carnforth Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante Carnforth "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Carnforth Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Carnforth "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Carnforth If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. -- Socrates Carnforth The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx Carnforth Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland Carnforth A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Carnforth "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. -- Elbert Hubbard Carnforth We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Carnforth Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason Carnforth "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman Carnforth
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