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Givendale, North Yorkshire

Givendale maps

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

Givendale map

Historic map of Givendale

North Yorkshire map

Illustrated Victorian map of North Yorkshire

Givendale map

Historic Map of any Givendale postcode

Givendale maps
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Givendale photos

We have no photos of Givendale, although we do have photos of these nearby places: Skelton-On-Ure, Bishop Monkton, Ripon, Kirby Hill, Burton Leonard, Boroughbridge

Givendale books

Displaying 3 of 23 books about Givendale and the local area.   View all Givendale books

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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Givendale books
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Memories of Givendale

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North Yorkshire memories

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 by Walter Thorpe.

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 by Margaret O'mahony.

6th birthday party

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 by Dawn Paton.

"Anne's Cafe"

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 by James Tannock.

schoolboy days

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 by David Anderson.

Rose Cottage -- Baldersby-St-James

I live in the USA -- Florida to be precise.
My birth certificate says I was born in Baldersby-St-James in Rose Cottage on October 30, 1950. I hope to travel to the UK next year, and hope to find a record of my birth in the local [Anglican] church, and also see my birth place if it still exists. [more]

Shared on 22 September 2008 by Lynne Dolan.

Topcliffe Fair

I lived on Long Street in Topcliffe 1958-1972 - opposite the old school, which is now a post office, and therefore on the other side of the road from this photo. I was excited by the fair, horses trotting along the road, smells, sights and sounds different from usual, lots of people, including photographers who wanted to take pictures from our... [more]

Shared on 29 May 2008 by Jan Dickenson.

New Website

Here in Helperby we have hosted a great Hidden Gardens every July. And this year it will be even better.
Last year was great , the weather hot and the strawberrys were very tasty.
But we wanted to share more of Helperby with everyone. so we made a village website, for the people who live there. They can add what they... [more]

Shared on 17 April 2007 by Helen Jarvis.

Extracts From Givendale & North Yorkshire books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Givendale, inspired by Frith photos.

Whitby Photographic Memories

Just south of the abbey's cliffs lie these rocks, which show the inroads made by the alum mining industry during the previous centuries. Before the chemists discovered a simpler method of fixing the dyes used in cloth manufacturing, alum was successfully used for this purpose. It had first to be extracted from rich mineral-bearing stone. This was mined locally both at Saltwick and Sandsend, and... [more]

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Whitby Photographic Memories

The railway line continues past the houses and the stone bridge of East Row, whilst the flow from the beck makes a tempting paddling pool. Bathing machines were still in use at this time, as we see on the right.

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Whitby Photographic Memories

Nestling in the shelter of Lythe Bank, the ancient village holds the homes of many of the men who worked in the alum industry and on local estates. Alum was a chemical used in tanning leather and in the dyeworks to fix the dye used in the weaving industry. It was mined and extracted from local stone in the Whitby district,... [more]

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