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Kirkstall Abbey, West Yorkshire
Kirkstall Abbey photos
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Kirkstall Abbey maps
Historic maps of Kirkstall Abbey and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Kirkstall Abbey maps
Historic map of Kirkstall Abbey
Illustrated Victorian map of West Yorkshire
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Kirkstall Abbey books
Displaying 3 of 23 books about Kirkstall Abbey and the local area. View all Kirkstall Abbey books
Yorkshire Coastal Memories Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14
Ilkley Town and City Memories
Paperback
£13
Yorkshire County Memories
Paperback
£15
1 Kirkstall Abbey photos appear in 2 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Kirkstall Abbey
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Anticipating a Memory of Kirkstall Abbey
In among my family genealogical records is a note that an ancestor of mine named Richard de Berecrofte gave lands to Kirkstall Abbey in the 12th century. I am SO looking forward to visiting the Abbey next year and taking my own pictures of it!
It is my understanding that my ancestors left the Cliviger area about 1650 for Boston, MA.... [more]
Shared on 31 July 2007
West Yorkshire memories
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
I was born in 1960 within a short walk of this photo. The scene is still clearly recognisable, although the wooden station building spanning the bridge and the steps leading down to the station were demolished and replaced (sometime in the early 1970s?)
Mum would walk to the station with my little sister in a big pushchair, my brother and... [more]
Shared on 25 March 2008
Extracts From Kirkstall Abbey & West Yorkshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Kirkstall Abbey, inspired by Frith photos.
After the Dissolution, the abbey was left a ruin and many of its stones were eventually carted off and used to widen the old Leeds Bridge. Even so the chapter house, cloisters and abbot's lodging are still impressive.
This is an extract from Leeds Photographic Memories.
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After the Dissolution, the abbey was left a ruin and many of its stones were eventually carted off and used to widen the old Leeds Bridge. Even so the chapter house, cloisters and abbot's lodging are still impressive.
This is an extract from British Life a Century Ago.
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Read more and see photos from this book.
After the Dissolution, the abbey was left a ruin and many of its stones were eventually carted off and used to widen the old Leeds Bridge. Even so the chapter house, cloisters and abbot's lodging are still impressive.
This is an extract from Leeds Pocket Album.
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Read more and see photos from this book.
