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Bramhope maps
Historic maps of Bramhope and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Bramhope maps
Bramhope photos
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Adel| Yeadon| Horsforth| Rawdon| Otley| Far Headingley| Guiseley| Harewood| Kirkstall Abbey| Headingley| Apperley Bridge| Calverley| Greengates| Farsley| Roundhay| Kirkby Overblow| Leeds| Burley In Wharfedale| Bradford
Bramhope area books
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Memories of Bramhope
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Village On A Hill
In 1941, shortly before my sixth birthday, I arrived at what was then a large branch of the National Children's Home & Orphanage, at Old Bramhope. To get there I had enjoyed an exciting (for me) train journey from Kings Cross (London) to Leeds Central Station. There followed a walk (I was carried) to Cookridge Street, then a bus to the bottom of Old Pool Bank, and then the long, steep climb up to the top of the hill, where the Home was situated.
Hilton Grange (as it was named) was an (almost) self-contained village on its own, with some external buildings for members of staff. There was a homestead for the Governor and his family (Mr Hodgetts was Governor when I arrived), a working dairy farm, an administration building, a large school, a small hospital, a chapel, five large semi-detached houses (sufficient for 150 girls and boys, and staff), small market gardens with greenhouses, swimming pool, tennis courts, football pitches, hockey pitch, joinery shop, cobbler's shop, and sports... Read more
West Yorkshire memories
Family Visit
We lived at Troutback for the summer with the Wells family, a lovely experience.
Living on Pool Bank New Road
We moved to Pool in 1943 as my father had a job as an aircraft inspector at the factory at what is now Leeds & Bradford Airport.
We lived in a house one corner up from the notorious Furze Hill Corner which was a very regular place for serious road accidents. I remember vividly witnessing an accident involving a car carrying some airmen which failed to negotiate the corner and collided with a Samuel Ledgards bus travelling up the hill towards Bradford. I had only just started school at Pool in Wharfedale C of E school and I was walking home with an older girl from the school whose name I believe was Shirley Lee when the accident happened. The corner was sharp , downhill and with an adverse camber which I think all contributed to the accident
Cookridge School And Perkins Farm!
I was born in 1946 and spent the first 3 years living in a curved un-insulated "nissen" hut next to the gunsight in Adel. We then moved to 71 Raynel Way in 1949. I attended Cookridge School and used to walk up Farrer Lane, on my own, even in the dead of winter with snowdrifts bigger than myself. We were told never to go on the embankment of the reservoir, 3 of us did one day and were caught and during lunch hour we were given "10" lines as punishment. I was rather thick at this stage of development as a human being and the concept of "lines" was way beyond my comprehension, even though the words were written on the board. With my pencil, paper and ruler I literally drew 10 horizontal lines, one above each other. When it came to hand in the work the teacher (I cannot remember any of them due to trauma) looked at my efforts and slapped me at the back of the legs and accused... Read more
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 reservoir for the water tower which, in those days was only half the size it is now, around 1965 it expanded onto what was our old school playground. In those days travelling out of Leeds there were no buildings WHATSOVER right from the row of house houses next to Holy name church past Raynel Way (St Paul's Church was not even built then) right to Pickles Farm at Bramhope except for Cookridge Hall Lodge, next to Holt Lane, that lodge is still there. (The Hall was then an Epileptic Home, it's now a golf course and sports complex.) EVERYTHING to the right side was then just fields, Holt Park... Read more
Tinshill Crescent
I was born in 1951 at Tinshill Crescent. I had an older brother Rodney (b 1946). I attended old Cookridge School (as previously described by Paul Leavett). It also had 2 prefab classrooms as well as the wooden hut. I remember one on my teachers called Mr. Still, a very tall & strict but enthusiastic teacher. This teacher followed us to the new Cookridge School (not the present new one, but built on the same site) in 1960. Back to the old school: I remember the old outside toilets & an old air raid shelter between the school & water tower that we used to play in. I did spend a short time at Ireland Wood School (Mrs Jeavon's class), when the old school was condemned & they hadn't completed the new Cookridge School yet. I remember the first day at the brand new school. The headmistress was Mrs Bray & she had 2 children (I think one had walking difficulties & wore calipers). She had a German car, a... Read more
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.
