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Healaugh, North Yorkshire

Healaugh photos

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Healaugh, Lock Heather Guest House c1955 photo

Healaugh, Lock Heather Guest House c1955

Healaugh, the Road to Shore Gill c1955 photo

Healaugh, the Road to Shore Gill c1955

Healaugh, Lock Heather Guest House c1955 photo

Healaugh, Lock Heather Guest House c1955

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Healaugh maps

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

Healaugh map

Historic map of Healaugh

North Yorkshire map

Illustrated Victorian map of North Yorkshire

Healaugh map

Historic Map of any Healaugh postcode

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Healaugh books

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Yorkshire Coastal Memories Photographic Memories
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Ilkley Town and City Memories
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North Yorkshire Photographic Memories
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Healaugh books
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Memories of Healaugh

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North Yorkshire memories

Draycott Hall

Draycott Hall was the home of the Denys family.  Sir George Deny wrote in his 1836 journal in Spain.
“To my Uncle, whose Heir I am…Dear Uncle, I’ve waited to hear, of your death so, alas! very long, That, despairing, I yield to the fear, that you must be undieably strong. Besides your unlimited wealth - How can you all decency brave? You’re enjoying the best of good health, When you ought to go into your grave!…”
Denys family had a great deal to do with the mining in the Swaledale.

Shared on 03 February 2007 by Julie Brutnell.

All Creatures Great and Small

This is the inn that was used in the popular BBC TV series 'All Creatures Great and Small', which was based on the books by the vet James Heriot. (From information sent in to the Frith Memory Archivist.)

Shared on 06 June 2008 by The Frith Memory Archivist.

eloped with david

Sometime in 1961/1962 I was courting David who was a chef in Newcastle upon Tyne.  I was a student nurse aged 16 he was I think 17.  He left his apprenticeship to work in a Wimpy bar to earn money to buy a ring.  He did buy me a ring and gave it to me on the seat at Greys monument.  We decided to elope but made the mistake of going to his parents pub The Red Lion at Arkengarthdale.  Unbeknown to us they rang my parents who turned up and took me home to Wallsend.  I wasn't allowed to see David again and even though I have been happily married for 43 years often wonder what happened to him and if he too found another love.  I thought his surname was Clarke but my family all say no it wasn't but haven't been able to remember what it was.  I would still love to hear from him if he sees this.  Annie

Shared on 17 May 2007 by Anne Bruce.

grouse beating

As a student I spent 3 seasons working as a beater on Lord Sopwiths estate.
I first worked a few days during a holiday with family friends called Rita and Albert Sparks who had holidayed in Arkengarthdale for many years. The following seasons I camped with a friend getting washed out one year and spending the rest of our stay in a loaned bed set up in an out building of a cottage.
Mr Mare was the head gamekeeper and Ramsey was the assistant. He had a beautiful dog. Many many happy memories even though it was hard work. Planning a visit soon. Avril Carter whose parents ran the post office I remember. Marilyn Mare (daughter of the gamekeeper)
Twins (boys) from shop overlooking the green - tried to teach me how to tickle trout.We were a bit young at the time to drink in the pub but we were ok if we took it outside!!

Shared on 14 July 2006 by Roy Loudon.

Extracts From Healaugh & North Yorkshire books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Healaugh, inspired by Frith photos.

North Yorkshire Living Memories

By the mid 1950s, tourism was starting to occupy a more important position in the Dales economy, alongside the traditional industries of farming and lead mining. The Lock Heather Guest House and Post Office, with its pillar-type post-box outside the front gate, was an indication of changing times.

This is an extract from North Yorkshire Living Memories.
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Richmond Photographic Memories

Some women artists paint the view of Richmond from across the River Swale. In the left distance can be seen smoke rising from the gasworks beside the falls. Richmond had one of the earliest gasworks in Europe, built in 1820 to provide street lighting for the fashionable Georgian town.

This is an extract from Richmond Photographic Memories.
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Richmond Photographic Memories

The Terrace, another Georgian promenade, offers a spectacular panorama of the town. On the right is St Mary’s parish church, in the centre the Grammar School, and to the left Church Mill, demolished in 1969, the last of many Richmond watermills once powered by the River Swale.

This is an extract from Richmond Photographic Memories.
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