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The Holgate Family From Halton East
The Holgate family lived in Halton East from the 1600s they were butchers, straw hat makers, quarrymen and general labourers. My gt gt grandma was Elizabeth Holgate, she was a farmer of 12 acres and although having only one son of her own Denis Holgate she brought up all of her grandchildren when Denis's wife died - there were seven children. Elizabeth is buried at Bolton Abbey church and has an iron plate with her commemoration on it. I have researched the Holgate family back to 1639, if anyone has any information I would be very pleased to hear it. Halton East was a very attractive close knit community and everyone would be helped in times of hardship! The children of Denis and Mary Anne and decendants are possibly all over the country. In order, they were William, John, Joseph (my granddad) Elizabeth, Mary Anne, Herbert and Sarah. John and Herbert went to live in Burnley, Mary Anne in Appleby in Westmoreland Joseph in Addingham, Sarah Glusborn, Eizabeth in... Read more
North Street
I was born at number 3 North Street in 1942. I was in my mothers arms and can remember Italian prisoners of war marching up to the camp on the Beamsley side of the River Wharfe and hiding on a shelf under the stairs whilst a German bomber had a go at the old SU factory at Low Mills (making carburetors for our spitfires). He missed, but there is still a crater on the opposite side of the river.
Childhood in War Time Silsden
I grew up in Silsden and also worked in Silsden, as a weaver at Stocks Mill. I lived at 52 New Rd or shed side, as it was known. We lived almost opposite Fletchers mill gates, in a back-to-back two bedroomed terraced house, with outside shared toile . I attended Aire View Primary School with the Headmistress, Miss Smith. I later went to Silsden Secondary Modern School with Claughton, Leadbetter and Manners as Headmasters. My teachers were Tindall (science), Dewhurst (woodwork and metalwork), Broughton,(from Sutton) two Winstanley sisters (Ethel and Connie), Holiday(art teacher with big boobies), who married the sports teacher Mr Feather. Miss Horsfall (my favourite), Irwin (cookery) and Scull (maths). I remember the school lunches, which my mum gave me two shillings a week for. For the war time years, I think they were quite good. I don't know where they got all that Sago for the puddings from. I remember the room under the school where we would keep all the gardening tools, as the school had... Read more
Born There in 1943
I was born in The Semon Emergency Hospital August 1943 and often wondered what it looked like and why I was actually born there and not in Bradford which is where my birth mother lived at the time, unless she was visiting Ilkley and was taken there as an emergency. I was adopted soon after birth. But have since met up with my half siblings. Both birth parent and adoptive parents are now deceased and so I never found out how I came to be born there.
Semon Emergency Maternity Hospital
I was born at the Semon Emergency Maternity Hospital in 1943 even though my parents lived in Bradford at the time.
I have always assumed this was because of the threat of bombing during the war, though I have never been sure if this is correct.
I viewed an map of Ilkley at the time recently and noted where the Hospital once stood, and have since been to see the location and wondered what it must have looked like in the surrounding area at that time.
It would be interesting to know if any records still exist of the births at the Hospital.
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