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Historic maps of Allerton and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Allerton maps
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Allerton area books
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Allens Temperance Bar
Hello everyone. I have fond memories of visiting Allens in White Abbey Road, Manningham, Bradford. It would be usually while walking home from school, St Patricks on Rebecca St, or after mass at St Patrick's Church on Sedgefield Terrace. I distinctly remember it was unlike any other place I had ever been in. The large shop window would be glowing in the dark drawing you in where it was warm & quiet. It was tiny with a couple of table and chairs set on a bare floor. The walls were lined with numerous little barrels with wonderful names such as dandelion & burdock, sarsparilla etc. Behind the actual bar were beautiful hand pumps. It was run by an elderly couple who I thought were the Allens, not knowing anything about the temperance movement. I understand that there was a second Allens on Manningham Lane but I never had the chance to visit there. I would love to know if anyone had a picture of the white abbey Allens or could... Read more
Saddle Bar
Hello me again. As I have so many lovely memories of Manningham, which I could reminisce about all day, I've decided to start by concentrating on what I think were local land marks. The Saddle Bar stands out vividly in my mind. Situated on Carlisle Road opposite the Malborough Picture house, the shop incorporated a wagon into its counter complete with wheel and all the associated horse tack etc. The smells were wonderful and would drift down the street to greet you. Ham shanks, meat & potatoe pies, cheese & onion pasties, pie & peas with lashings of mint sauce. My sister and I would always visit after swimming at the Drummond Road swimming baths on a saturday morning for a glass of Tizer and just to take in what to my young eyes was the sheer fantasy setting of it all. Has anyone got a photograph they would be willing to share? It would be most appreciated.
Great Horton Industrial Society Ltd
We have just acquired a silver teapot with the following inscription:-
Presented to Mr L A Drake by the EMPLOYEES of the Great Horton Industrial Society Ltd February 7th 1899.
It is a beautiful antique teapot with a highly decorative surround to the central inscription. Have you any other information on this event or person ?
We are Roy & Jeanette Walker 19, Glenstrae Road Christchurch 8081 New Zealand
Email royal@xtra.co.nz
Can Anyone Remember .....
It was lovely to see photos of the Queensbury I remember as a child. I have been going over the High Street in my mind, trying to remember the names of all the shops. Can anyone remember the shop that was between Gallons and Swires Drapers shop. I just can't remember it and it is driving me mad.
I was born and brought up in Queensbury and lived there until I was married. After looking on Google Maps it would appear that the High Street has changed much. gone is Stocks Hardware Shop which was full of everything you didn't know you wanted. Gone are all the other shops - The Economic, Archers Newsagents, Stanley Coats Sweet Shop and Miss Giffords Hat Shop. That's the nice thing about memories, they stay fresh in your mind and never tarnish. If anyone can remember the name of that shop then please add a memory.
Pauline Piper (formerly Pauline Young of 100 West End)
My Fading Memories
I was but a lad of 8 when my folks bundled us all off to a wide land downunder. Since 1968, Australia has been my home.
I often speak of my fading memories of Queensbury, my walks through the village, living on 'The Mountain', which I see has now been torn down. Life for me was all about the mountain, living there in a small two-storey house, two bedrooms upstairs, a sitting room and kitchen downstairs - no bathroom or toilet, they were down at the end of the street. The moors across the road, often populated by 'Alan the farmer's' milkers. Nanna and Grandad lived just a few doors along, easy walking distance for a small boy. Nanna's house was much better than ours, with a bathroom and toilet having been added upstairs by my carpenter uncle.
School was at Foxhill to start with, with Mr Smith, a fine elderly gentleman, as the headmaster. Mr Smith often mentioned to me that he had taught my parents... Read more
Happy Years
Earliest memories... staying home from school (Church School now Russell Hall) in the winter because the boiler had burst. Swinging on my gran's gate on Highfield Terrace, and playing with a teaset and dolls pram in her house, and loving the view from her window, going down in the cellar to look at the washer boiler. May Dday processions, fizzy pop delivered every week, Dandelion n Burdock our favourite. Sunday School outings with Feathers coaches, and the mystery trips which seemed to be to Grassington a lot. The little Sunday school by the Navvie houses where we used to sing 'Running over, running over, my cups full and running over' etc. I loved those songs where we threw our hands about. Going into Mildred's house and tap dancing in the mat well at my friend Ann's house opposite. Being told ghost stores in the passage in between the houses. Playing in the field opposite Foxhill School at lunch times. Not realising until much later what a wonderful view there... Read more
Life at The Pub in Shipley, West Riding Yorkshire.
My mother, father and I moved into an old Victorian public house in Shipley. Life was different living in a pub and travelling miles to school in Bradford.
