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Great Horton maps

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

Great Horton map

Historic map of Great Horton

West Yorkshire map

Illustrated Victorian map of West Yorkshire

Great Horton map

Historic Map of any Great Horton postcode

Great Horton maps
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Great Horton photos

We have no photos of Great Horton, although we do have photos of these nearby places: Bradford, Shelf, Queensbury

Great Horton books

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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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Great Horton books
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Memories of Great Horton

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West Yorkshire memories

Manchester Road

I remember walking all the way down Manchester Road to St Joseph's Infant School, which at that time was on Grafton Street and part of the Girls School, it seemed to take ages, we walked past all the pubs and shops a real hive of activity. There were 40 pubs on Manchester Road and a brewery!
I then moved to St... [more]

Shared on 29 August 2009

Childhood Memories

Born in Bradford in 1956, emigrated to Australia in 1969 (40 years this year). Memories of my grandma's house in Arum Street, Canturbury where I was born in her lounge room and going to church every Sunday morning in the snow. My mum and dad were both born in Bradford and still have family living there. Remember going to the Alhambra... [more]

Shared on 21 January 2009 by Sandra Browne.

Bradford

Mum worked for GEC on Manningham Lane and was informed of her brother's death on HMS Indomitable as he was in the navy in the war. Mum worked with Christiana Swift in the canteen at GEC.

Shared on 23 October 2008 by Tracie Hargraves.

Visit of Wilfred Pickles

I have recently been making an album for my father of his life story and he was saddened that we had nothing we could put in it of my brother who was taken to Bradford childrens hospital in November 1947 and died in January 1948.  There were no pictures taken in these circumstances in those days and although Wilfred Pickles visited... [more]

Shared on 03 September 2008 by Mavis Hunt.

Growing up in Fitzgerald St

Oh the good old days !!!
From 1938 to 1976, when we emigrated to Canada, I remember the places talked about in the other peoples memories having lived in Fitzgerald St until they tore it all down. I remember Paisley St, Grafton St, Earl St, Stirling St etc. When I was old enough to drink we used to go to the... [more]

Shared on 17 March 2008 by Harry Blott.

Happy memories of my grandparents

My first memory of Chellow Dene reservoir dates back to the mid-sixties. My grandparents Jack and Betty Parkinson lived at Chellow Grange Lodge, just down the road from the reservoir, and when I visited them - my parents and I lived about 20 minutes walk away - they would often take me there. A few weeks ago I visited... [more]

Shared on 29 September 2007 by Julia Atkinson.

Mumming

I used to live in College Road off Manchester Road, but I now live in Australia. I can remember going Mumming on New Years Eve, we used to dress up and go round all the Pubs in Town and also the Alhambra at the end of each show of the Pantomine and folk would give us Money and ask us to... [more]

Shared on 02 October 2006 by Tony Boocock.

Notes from the Frith files.

The policeman is PC Roy Brookman.

Shared on 30 August 2006

Extracts From Great Horton & West Yorkshire books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Great Horton, 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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