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Hazlewood maps
Historic maps of Hazlewood and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Hazlewood maps
Hazlewood photos
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Bolton Abbey| Addingham| Draughton| Appletreewick| Ilkley| Greenhow Hill| Embsay| Burnsall| Silsden| Burley In Wharfedale| Hebden| Kildwick| Dacre Banks| Cross Hills| Grassington
Hazlewood area books
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North Street
I was born at number 3 North Street in 1942. I was in my mothers arms and can remember Italian prisoners of war marching up to the camp on the Beamsley side of the River Wharfe and hiding on a shelf under the stairs whilst a German bomber had a go at the old SU factory at Low Mills (making carburetors for our spitfires). He missed, but there is still a crater on the opposite side of the river.
The Holgate Family From Halton East
The Holgate family lived in Halton East from the 1600s they were butchers, straw hat makers, quarrymen and general labourers. My gt gt grandma was Elizabeth Holgate, she was a farmer of 12 acres and although having only one son of her own Denis Holgate she brought up all of her grandchildren when Denis's wife died - there were seven children. Elizabeth is buried at Bolton Abbey church and has an iron plate with her commemoration on it. I have researched the Holgate family back to 1639, if anyone has any information I would be very pleased to hear it. Halton East was a very attractive close knit community and everyone would be helped in times of hardship! The children of Denis and Mary Anne and decendants are possibly all over the country. In order, they were William, John, Joseph (my granddad) Elizabeth, Mary Anne, Herbert and Sarah. John and Herbert went to live in Burnley, Mary Anne in Appleby in Westmoreland Joseph in Addingham, Sarah Glusborn, Eizabeth in... Read more
Born There in 1943
I was born in The Semon Emergency Hospital August 1943 and often wondered what it looked like and why I was actually born there and not in Bradford which is where my birth mother lived at the time, unless she was visiting Ilkley and was taken there as an emergency. I was adopted soon after birth. But have since met up with my half siblings. Both birth parent and adoptive parents are now deceased and so I never found out how I came to be born there.
Semon Emergency Maternity Hospital
I was born at the Semon Emergency Maternity Hospital in 1943 even though my parents lived in Bradford at the time.
I have always assumed this was because of the threat of bombing during the war, though I have never been sure if this is correct.
I viewed an map of Ilkley at the time recently and noted where the Hospital once stood, and have since been to see the location and wondered what it must have looked like in the surrounding area at that time.
It would be interesting to know if any records still exist of the births at the Hospital.
I Was Born at Ilkley
I was also born at the Semon Convalescent Home in 1943, my mother was booked into St Lukes for my birth but was sent here instead, I often wondered what the home was like. I have visited Ilkley many times and never did find the home, now I know why.
Lund And Becker Houses in Ilkley
I believe this house was built by my great grandfather, Charles Lund, in 1876. He was married to Hannah Pullen. They had three daughters. The youngest, Alice was my grandmother. She married Clarence Becker. They lived most of their lives in Ilkley. Their son, Maurice and daughter Sylvia, my mother, grew up in Ilkley. She moved to America in the 1930s. I travelled many times with my mother to Ilkley, staying with my grandmother, who by then had moved too Manor Park in Burley. I remember seeing this house along with others in Ilkley, built and lived in by members of the family including Eldemere, on the Grove Road, Overdale, Westwood drive, a double, Suncroft and Inglecrof, Kings Road and finally Fieldhead and Villette on Rupert Road.
Born at Semon Convalescent Home Oct 1944
My mother was evacuated from London to Ilkley when the first V. bombs dropped. She was expecting me and I was born on 22nd October 1944 in Semon Convalescent Home which was turned into an emergency maternity home. We had been evacuated to Yorkshire as we had a cousin who lived in Ilkley. My mother was from Northumberland but lived in London. I went back to find the place in about 1992 (cant remember date) and found it all boarded up. The caretaker kindly let me in to look around and I found the rooms where the babies were born and took a photo of it. It was apparently being sold for development and I don't know what has happened to the building now.
