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Glasshouses maps
Historic maps of Glasshouses and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Glasshouses maps
Glasshouses photos
We have no photos of Glasshouses, although we do have photos of these nearby places: Pateley Bridge, Dacre Banks, Wath, Greenhow Hill, Burnt Yates, Sawley, Birstwith, Shaw MillsGlasshouses books
Displaying 3 of 23 books about Glasshouses and the local area. View all Glasshouses books
Yorkshire Coastal Memories Photographic Memories
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£14
Ilkley Town and City Memories
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£13
Yorkshire County Memories
Paperback
£15
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Memories of Glasshouses
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My Grandfather, D J R Wilson had lived in Dacre Banks since just after the end of the war meaning that as a child would often have to visit. As a teenager I never appreciated just how beautiful the place is, or how lucky I was to have somewhere like this to visit.
Sadly I would imagine that I will... [more]
Shared on 05 August 2009
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
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
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
Extracts From Glasshouses & North Yorkshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Glasshouses, 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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