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Adel, West Yorkshire
Adel maps
Historic maps of Adel and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Adel maps
Historic map of Adel
Illustrated Victorian map of West Yorkshire
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Adel books
Displaying 3 of 23 books about Adel and the local area. View all Adel books
Yorkshire Coastal Memories Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14
Ilkley Town and City Memories
Paperback
£13
Yorkshire County Memories
Paperback
£15
1 Adel photos appear in 1 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Adel
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The Norfolk family living in Adel and Harewood
Just look at this truly MAGNIFICENT arch over the church doorway. My own interest in this parish is because my family name is Norfolk and so many of my family were farmers, millers and general agicultural workers around Adel, Harewood and Dunkeswick going back to the early 1600s - and probably beyond.
Shared on 13 October 2008
West Yorkshire memories
Cookridge - Once fields and Farms
I moved from Holbeck in 1948 into one of the first estates to be built in North West Leeds, Ireland Wood (Raynels). In 1950 I went to Cookridge School, then a wooden hut right slap bang opposite where Cookridge fire station is now. The old locked school gates leading nowhere are still there.. behind them is the grassy bank of the... [more]
Shared on 12 April 2009
I was born in 1960 within a short walk of this photo. The scene is still clearly recognisable, although the wooden station building spanning the bridge and the steps leading down to the station were demolished and replaced (sometime in the early 1970s?)
Mum would walk to the station with my little sister in a big pushchair, my brother and... [more]
Shared on 25 March 2008
I was 7yrs old when I visited this place with my mum and sister which was (1973) and I was told this was going to be my home for a while because mum was too ill to look after me...it was called Springfield boarding school and although I hated it at first because I got homesick I settled in and... [more]
Shared on 08 February 2007
Extracts From Adel & West Yorkshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Adel, inspired by Frith photos.
Severely modern and uncompromising in its architecture, this grammar school symbolised the progressive educational changes of the post-war period. In 1966 proposals were put forward to reorganise the education system within 15 years. It was decreed that all children aged 11 to 18 years would attend comprehensive schools. In the interim period comprehensives were split between those taking 11 to 13 year olds, and those taking 13... [more]
This is an extract from Leeds Pocket Album.
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After the 1930s the next blow to the Woollen District came in the 1960s with the import of cheap Italian heavy-woollen skirtings and coatings. Even after taking transportation costs into account, cheap labour enabled the Italians to undersell heavy-woollen Yorkshire-made products.
This is an extract from Leeds Pocket Album.
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The Angel Hotel was one of three hotels that catered for motorists, the others being the George and Dragon, and the Brunswick. The Angel was a substantial establishment, with stabling for a hundred horses. Forty pairs of horses were maintained at the inn for posting.
This is an extract from Leeds Pocket Album.
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