Boston Spa, West Yorkshire

The Dolby Family

My family, the Dolbys lived next door to Deighton's Butcher Shop (c1926). My father, Richard Edward Dolby worked as a groom for Colonel Staniforth. My mother, Winifred, was a teacher at Green Hammerton School for over 20 years. We were: Frank, John, Mary, Ruth, Enid and Audrey.

Ulleskelf

Hiya Luke and Liam if your reading this then your probably on the phone to me .coming up at the weekend hope 2 see you then i probably will. ask nana if i can stay there if not ill sleep round hal's. 2005/2006 where the best years of my life at Ulleskelf. I lived with my nana and grandad. Graham and Karolyn Turner. I lived next door to the Ramsden family. Also i lived with my two annoying brothers Luke and Liam Dean. I had quite a lot of friends like Hal Ramsden and Chris Simson. I had lived there the past two years and enjoyed my time there a lot. Until I had to move in 2006. I went to Tadcaster Grammar Schoo and loved it there my best friends were Joel Dixon, James Hutchings, Lewis Jones, Simon Jowett and Charlie K Wray. I'm going back to Ulleskelf for christmas and hope it will be good. It is the last time i will see Hal and his family because they are moving back to leeds at the new year after a big party they are throwing. Me, Hal, Chris and my brother luke are planning a huge tribute to the years we spent together and will cap it all off with a huge prank. We havent thought of anything yet but we will do. It is only 26 days untill i go back up and i can't wait.The last time i went back to ulleskelf the place had changed so much they were new houses beig built and more sighs put up, just little things that i normally not realise i did. I'm going to make a calender on this because. erm. Iwant to...so  19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 everyday i will update this and count down the days and leave you my gay school's weekly slogan. ha. gay. So this weeks slogan is... don't stand by, stand by me
. yeah i no i'm lost for words too. yeah so anyway love you. bye. xxx

Childhood memories

I was born in Harewood in 1971 and lived 14 amazingly happy childhood years there!!
My father was born there in 1947 and he has amazing tales of his childhood too!!
My memories were of taking a picnic and heading out on adventures to "the rockies" with tunnels and caves; now I understand they were built by the landscape artist Capability Brown.  We would venture deep into the woods to "the roman pool" and catch tadpoles and newts, a few accidents with us falling in!!  Then before dusk it would be a trip to the castle to climb up the steep, spiral staircase to the top of the world!!!  I think it was falcons that used to nest up there, but it was a breathtaking view!!
These memories will never leave me!!!!

The Norfolk Family

I am John Howard Norfolk and although I have never lived in Yorkshire I know that my Norfolk family were farmers, millers and tanners in Harewood and nearby Wharfedale villages for many hundreds of years until the late 1800's. I have found records of my Norfolk family living in the parish going back to the early 1600's.

I have visited the church in Harewood and found several family graves - how alarming it is to see a tombstone with your own name, John Norfolk, on it !  

Some of the family lived in Harewood Mill and others in the nearby hamlet of Dunkeswick. Looking at the area in modern times at so much farmland and parkland it is hard to believe that in centuries past there were so many inhabitants and worshippers at the church.

I believe that the last of my family to be raised in the parish was my great-grandfather James Henry Norfolk who moved to Leeds and then London. If any relatives of the Harewood Norfolks read this I would be very pleased to hear from them at jhnorfolk at googlemail.com  and I would also be thrilled to see any old photos of Harewood in the "Francis Frith" style