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Burton Leonard photos
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Burton Leonard maps
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Illustrated Victorian map of North Yorkshire
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Burton Leonard books
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Yorkshire Coastal Memories Photographic Memories
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Ilkley Town and City Memories
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Yorkshire County Memories
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North Yorkshire memories
I remember living at No 12 Kingwood Estate and spending many evenings after school playing cricket on the village pitch.
Shared on 18 October 2009
My brother Arthur drowned in the River Ure
My brother Arthur drowned in the River Ure.Does anyone remember this, and the Thorpe family?
Shared on 13 July 2009
I was born in Annes Cafe Boroughbridge in 1940 (we were lodging there). Dad used to have a few beers in the Crown and the Three Greyhounds during WW2.
Mum and Dad told me they used to go "skinny dipping" in the "fish ladders?"*
we moved from Boroughbridge to Merseyside sometime between 1940 and 1945 I will have to research exactly... [more]
Shared on 26 August 2006
My father was the manager at the bottom tannery in Shaw Mills and we lived in Sunny Lea from 1955 - 1960. Although I was only 6 when we left, I have numerous vivid memories of that idyllic time and feel privileged to have lived there.
My sister and I used to walk up to Hardcastle's farm to get eggs and... [more]
Shared on 06 March 2009
Saturday visits to the Spa Baths
Many Saturdays would find my friends and I catching a bus for the 11 miles journey to Ripon. It was the nearest swimming place for us and how we enjoyed the day out. If we had a few coppers left we would buy beans on toast at a local cafe and think ourselves very grown up. Now I live in far... [more]
Shared on 03 July 2007
My grandparents lived in the large house that you can mainly see on the bridge (with the three windows on the second floor) throughout the 1950,s and 60's. I was told that Mary Queen of Scotts made her way through the basement of the house to find refuge in the house of sanctuary which was at that time situated behind the... [more]
Shared on 18 November 2006
Here is Station Square appearing as its architects intended, an open airy town centre piece. The gardens in the foreground are the Coronation Gardens of c.1953, which complimented the Victorian square admirably. Just as this picture was being taken, the lovely old and deliberately 'low roofed' railway station was being totally ruined by the new overscale Station Tower and new station... [more]
Shared on 17 January 2009
Does anybody have a picture of the church on Kings Road that was knocked down to build the International Hotel?
Shared on 10 October 2008
Extracts From Burton Leonard & North Yorkshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Burton Leonard, inspired by Frith photos.
Villages of Yorkshire Photographic Memories
All three villages greens here were bought from the Duchy of Lancaster in 1926 for £5. St Leonard's Church was built in 1878 on the site of earlier ones dating back to 1220. To the south of the village is the old lime quarry, now a wildlife sanctuary. The coaching inn, the Crown, is now a nursing home. The other two... [more]
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It is well worth the effort to climb up these rocks: you're on top of the world, if a little weary and overheated. Luckily, just below refreshments are to hand at the Cow and Calf Inn, formerly known as the Highfield.
This is an extract from Ilkley Town and City Memories.
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In this photograph you can see the top of the Semon Convalescent Home just beyond the reservoir. A fair walk westwards then brings you to the Swastika Stone, which is unique in this country. Other examples have been found in Tossene in Sweden and Mycenae in Greece and all depict fertility and religious symbols. The council placed the iron railing around... [more]
This is an extract from Ilkley Town and City Memories.
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