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Historic maps of Denby Dale and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Denby Dale maps

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West Yorkshire map

Illustrated Victorian map of West Yorkshire

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Lived there

Denby Dale is where I use to live untill 1994.

Shared on Wednesday, May 06, 2009 by Jonathan Milnes.

West Yorkshire memories

Scissett school

This was my school transported from Birdsedge to school each day, quite a trip. Lots of great memories, 1949-50-51- those were the years I attended. I remember the school flat we got to play house for a whole week and miss the regular classes.
Doreen Osborne

Shared on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 by Doreen Page.

Childhood memories

I was born 1949 in Huddersfield and lived in Skelmanthorpe until 1970. I was delighted to see the photos of Skelmanthorpe taken in the fifties. It brought back wonderful childhood memories of things that I'd already forgotten. I remembered going to Bower's Newsagent to pay for our papers once every week, the chemist shop next door and then there was a... [more]

Shared on Sunday, March 23, 2008 by Angela Reichert.

Childhood Memories

I was born in Huddersfield and lived in Clayton West until I got married in 1973. I lived in The Royds with my parent where my father was the local postman, in fact many of my relations lived in The Royds or near by.
My fondest memories of the village are fishing in the dams which were located just of Bilham... [more]

Shared on Monday, August 31, 2009

Ackroyd coffee bar

Just down the road from the Shoulder of Mutton pub was Ackroyds coffee bar. In the 60s we young ones would meet, listen to the juke box, drinking frothy coffee.
The horse and cart outside the pub belonged to Herman Wood the local milkman. The cart was a daily sight outside the pub.

Shared on Saturday, November 11, 2006 by David Johnson.

Shepley

Hi, I am living in Ireland now. I spent many a good night in the Farmer's Boy pub, I was called 'Irish' by name, some day I hope to holiday in your lovely village.

Shared on Friday, February 06, 2009 by Michael Cullen.

Central Stores

The large 3-storey building to the right of centre, was the village grocery store at 91 Lane Head Road. My father purchased it in 1961 from Frank Armitage. He sold it in 1984 when he retired. At the rear were stables, groceries used to be delivered by horse drawn cart, but my father used a Ford Thames van, until in 1966... [more]

Shared on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 by Glen Cheney.

Chip Shop

The building to the right of centre of this photo was Dyson's Fish & Chip Shop in the 1960s and 1970s. The caption says Main Road, but this road the A629 had several names. one was Penistone Road, but at this point it was known as Abbey Road South, before becoming Lane Head Road.

Shared on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 by Glen Cheney.

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