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Harewood, West Yorkshire
Harewood maps
Historic maps of Harewood and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Harewood maps
Historic map of Harewood
Illustrated Victorian map of West Yorkshire
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Harewood books
Displaying 3 of 23 books about Harewood and the local area. View all Harewood 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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1 Harewood photos appear in 2 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Harewood
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I was born in Harewood in 1971 and lived 14 amazingly happy childhood years there!!
My father was born there in 1947 and he has amazing tales of his childhood too!!
My memories were of taking a picnic and heading out on adventures to "the rockies" with tunnels and caves; now I understand they were built by the landscape artist Capability... [more]
Shared on 02 July 2007
I am John Howard Norfolk and although I have never lived in Yorkshire I know that my Norfolk family were farmers, millers and tanners in Harewood and nearby Wharfedale villages for many hundreds of years until the late 1800's. I have found records of my Norfolk family living in the parish going back to the early 1600's.
I... [more]
Shared on 23 February 2007
West Yorkshire memories
In 1941, shortly before my sixth birthday, I arrived at what was then a large branch of the National Children's Home & Orphanage, at Old Bramhope. To get there I had enjoyed an exciting (for me) train journey from Kings Cross (London) to Leeds Central Station. There followed a walk (I was carried) to Cookridge Street, then a bus to the... [more]
Shared on 30 September 2008
The Norfolk family living in Adel and Harewood
Just look at this truly MAGNIFICENT arch over the church doorway. My own interest in this parish is because my family name is Norfolk and so many of my family were farmers, millers and general agicultural workers around Adel, Harewood and Dunkeswick going back to the early 1600s - and probably beyond.
Shared on 13 October 2008
Cookridge - Once fields and Farms
I moved from Holbeck in 1948 into one of the first estates to be built in North West Leeds, Ireland Wood (Raynels). In 1950 I went to Cookridge School, then a wooden hut right slap bang opposite where Cookridge fire station is now. The old locked school gates leading nowhere are still there.. behind them is the grassy bank of the... [more]
Shared on 12 April 2009
After opening Seacroft town centre, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip visited my family in Kentmere Avenue. I have lots of pictures.
Steve Lyons, Canada
Shared on 28 July 2009
Here is Station Square appearing as its architects intended, an open airy town centre piece. The gardens in the foreground are the Coronation Gardens of c.1953, which complimented the Victorian square admirably. Just as this picture was being taken, the lovely old and deliberately 'low roofed' railway station was being totally ruined by the new overscale Station Tower and new station... [more]
Shared on 17 January 2009
Does anybody have a picture of the church on Kings Road that was knocked down to build the International Hotel?
Shared on 10 October 2008
Extracts From Harewood & West Yorkshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Harewood, inspired by Frith photos.
Severely modern and uncompromising in its architecture, this grammar school symbolised the progressive educational changes of the post-war period. In 1966 proposals were put forward to reorganise the education system within 15 years. It was decreed that all children aged 11 to 18 years would attend comprehensive schools. In the interim period comprehensives were split between those taking 11 to 13 year olds, and those taking 13... [more]
This is an extract from Leeds Pocket Album.
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After the 1930s the next blow to the Woollen District came in the 1960s with the import of cheap Italian heavy-woollen skirtings and coatings. Even after taking transportation costs into account, cheap labour enabled the Italians to undersell heavy-woollen Yorkshire-made products.
This is an extract from Leeds Pocket Album.
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The Angel Hotel was one of three hotels that catered for motorists, the others being the George and Dragon, and the Brunswick. The Angel was a substantial establishment, with stabling for a hundred horses. Forty pairs of horses were maintained at the inn for posting.
This is an extract from Leeds Pocket Album.
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