My grateful thanks to:

• To my Mum and Dad - George and Marguerita Ackerley, for all their reminisces,
• To The Skelmersdale Heritage Society for now hosting these pages now I've had to close my original website (www.cousto.freeserve.co.uk)
• To Stan Simpkin, his wife and their son Anthony for some information and the loan of their Scrapbook where some of these photo's came from,
• To Peter and Joan Molyneux for the loan of their photo album, various pieces of information, and supplying the Memoirs of Thomas Yates.
• To Bill Birchall of Weston Super Mare (an old Skemmer) for his memories and articles for the 'Bills Book' series,
• To Eddie Appleton for his school photos and memories
• To Maurice Rainford for his aerial photos
• To Jack and Joe Yates for permission to reproduce the Memoirs of Thomas Yates
• To Paul Wainwright and family and his Nan Edna Greenall for information and starting the Sandy Lane shops list off,
• To Christine Ross (now of Australia) for her memories and encouragement
• To Geoff Peet for additional snippets of information
• To Ron Kenny for copying the two "Conditions" articles out for me
• To George Orr for permission to use some quotes and information from his excellent book "The History Of Skelmersdale" which he is currently rewriting,
• To Geoff Howard and The Skelmersdale & Ormskirk Advertisers for permission to reshow the "Streets" series and no doubt other stuff from peoples scrapbooks.
• To Walter and David Oakley for permission to use their legendary photos - no doubt most of the ones you see!
• To Margaret and Jim Hodges for permission to reproduce their memories and photos, namely the walking days ones.
• To the Staff of the Skelmersdale Library, particularly Barbara for their help and encouragement,
• To Mona Duggan for permission to use the 'Skem Jazzer' photo from her book and for inspiration,
• To Lancashire Central Library at Preston for permission to use some photo's sourced other than mentioned above,