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Givendale maps
Historic maps of Givendale and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Givendale maps
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, BoroughbridgeGivendale books
Displaying 3 of 23 books about Givendale and the local area. View all Givendale books
Yorkshire Coastal Memories Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14
Ilkley Town and City Memories
Paperback
£13
Yorkshire County Memories
Paperback
£15
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Memories of Givendale
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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
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
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
Extracts From Givendale & North Yorkshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Givendale, inspired by Frith photos.
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]
This is an extract from Whitby Photographic Memories.
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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.
This is an extract from Whitby Photographic Memories.
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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]
This is an extract from Whitby Photographic Memories.
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Read more and see photos from this book.
