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Historic maps of Grangefield Industrial Estate and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Grangefield Industrial Estate maps
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Displaying 3 of 23 books about Grangefield Industrial Estate and the local area. View all Grangefield Industrial Estate books
Yorkshire Coastal Memories Photographic Memories
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£14
Ilkley Town and City Memories
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£13
Yorkshire County Memories
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£15
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Memories of Grangefield Industrial Estate
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Mrs Porrit's dance hall! That's a name to stir memories. Saturday nights at Mrs Porrit's, strict tempo dancing with just a spot of rock and roll, no drinking in the coverted chapel and an old black and white telly in a back room where the lads disappeared to watch wrestling.
What happened to the IN-CROWD who quickstepped, foxtrotted and waltzed until... [more]
Shared on 10 November 2008
Pattern weaving at Reuben Gaunts mill
My dad got me a job as a trainee pattern weaver at Gaunts mill in the main street of Farsley. I was 16/17 at the time. I learned a lot in that 18 months or so and I also met a beautiful girl called Doreen Pankhurst, pity is I let her go... The smell of the mouse urine in the shed... [more]
Shared on 13 May 2007
I lived next door to Mr Dales newsagents on Highfield Road in Bramley. Opposite were rows of terraces in those days with a shop on the end of each terrace. A chip shop on the end of the first row and a newsagents and general store on the end of another - Bowers? I seem to remember. The Barley Mow pub... [more]
Shared on 18 October 2008
My childhood - Bramley/West Yorkshire/Leeds/England.
I must have around 7 years old when my mother used to take me along Bramley Town Street, where in those times it was back to back houses and shops. I was taken regularly to the barbers at the top of Town Street, next to the barbers was a police station. In the barbers I was sat onto a small plank... [more]
Shared on 24 September 2008
Extracts From Grangefield Industrial Estate & West Yorkshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Grangefield Industrial Estate, 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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