Ilkley, Hollybrook Guest House.

A Memory of Ilkley.

I remember Hollybrook Guesthouse well from my childhood as I lived with my parents at Hill Top, Westwood Road, which at the time was a Children's home for boys from "broken homes". I spent many happy hours with Mary & Eddy Spiers who ran it and paid a brief visit to see them in 1972 a few months before I married. I visited in August this year and was disappointed to find it gone.

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I’m looking at some snowdrops which are in my Hollybrook tiny vase. I think I bought it in 1968 ish. I did a Christmas and a summer stint in hollybrook with my boyfriend Geoff Gurd. It was hard work and freezing at Christmas on the top floor in the servants quarters, getting dressed in bed and taking the duster to the stairs on the way down.

By Jenny Greener on Sun Jan 26th 2020, at 7:16 pm

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