Historic map of Middlestown
Illustrated Victorian map of West Yorkshire
Historic Map of any Middlestown postcode
You are here: Explore your past > Middlestown
Middlestown, West Yorkshire
Middlestown maps
Historic maps of Middlestown and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Middlestown maps
Middlestown photos
We have no photos of Middlestown, although we do have photos of these nearby places: Horbury, Ossett, DewsburyMiddlestown books
Displaying 3 of 23 books about Middlestown and the local area. View all Middlestown books
Yorkshire Coastal Memories Photographic Memories
Paperback
rrp £14
£11.20
Ilkley Town and City Memories
Paperback
rrp £13
£10.40
Yorkshire County Memories
Paperback
rrp £15
£12
You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Middlestown
Displaying a selection of personal
memories of Middlestown
.
Add your memory of Middlestown
or of a photo of Middlestown.
I was an evacuee in Middlestown in WWII, from East London. The first time was with my Mother and we were billeted in a small cottage which backed on to a barn belonging to a farm run by Mr and Mrs Cowan. We were there for approximately a year and my memories of that first year are rather blurred. We came... [more]
Shared on 16 December 2008
West Yorkshire memories
This old bloke used to haul this massive horse-wagon up Cluntergate, on a regular basis. I mean Cluntergate was this hill... 1 in 12 about... and this bloke used to haul this massive horse-drawn wagon up to the top and beyond. I never knew where he went, or where he came from. He wasn't very big, only a small, scrawny feller,... [more]
Shared on 19 August 2009
To all the young 'ens of that era or anyone else - who remembers walking down and up the self beaten footpath behind the long established fish & chip shop opposite the old Heppinstall's general store (long since gone), to the Devils Pond to catch what we thought were Terrapines! Or catching frogs etc, and making home made carts to pull... [more]
Shared on 27 October 2009
I was brought up in Ossett from 1948 to 1966 when I joined the armed forces. I remember very well every Saturday afternoon we would go to the palladium picture house opposite the town hall. We did not have a bus station at that time so all buses would park around the town hall. Shops that spring to mind were Inghams... [more]
Shared on 06 March 2009
Highfield House/Cottage /Earlsheaton
The best of my childhood memories are of Highfield House and Highfield Cottage in the late part of the 60s and early 70s. The summers always seemed hot and the days were long and happy. I come from a large family and we always had so much fun in the fields at the back of the house, rolling from the top... [more]
Shared on 27 July 2008
My grandma lived in Batley Carr and we lived in Leeds. I can remember visiting Dewsbury as a little girl with Mum and Dad. There was a market in Dewsbury on a Saturday and I can remember visiting an ice cream parlour. I was delighted to be reminded the ice cream palour was Caddy's which sold delicious ice... [more]
Shared on 04 September 2009
I loved Caddy's. Sometimes if I think hard enough I can get the memory of its taste, mmm. I remember having a tall glass of lemonade and ice cream and sitting on leather upholstery in the parlour in town. It was such a treat. We also had an ice cream van came round and the man had a large brass bell... [more]
Shared on 22 March 2009
Was Caddy's ice cream parlour on a corner near the market? Can anybody tell me?
Shared on 27 October 2008
Extracts From Middlestown & West Yorkshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Middlestown, inspired by Frith photos.
Just south of the abbey's cliffs lie these rocks, which show the inroads made by the alum mining industry during the previous centuries. Before the chemists discovered a simpler method of fixing the dyes used in cloth manufacturing, alum was successfully used for this purpose. It had first to be extracted from rich mineral-bearing stone. This was mined locally both at Saltwick and Sandsend, and... [more]
This is an extract from Whitby Photographic Memories.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Read more and see photos from this book.
The railway line continues past the houses and the stone bridge of East Row, whilst the flow from the beck makes a tempting paddling pool. Bathing machines were still in use at this time, as we see on the right.
This is an extract from Whitby Photographic Memories.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Nestling in the shelter of Lythe Bank, the ancient village holds the homes of many of the men who worked in the alum industry and on local estates. Alum was a chemical used in tanning leather and in the dyeworks to fix the dye used in the weaving industry. It was mined and extracted from local stone in the Whitby district,... [more]
This is an extract from Whitby Photographic Memories.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Read more and see photos from this book.
