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Ossett, West Yorkshire
Ossett maps
Historic maps of Ossett and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Ossett maps
Historic map of Ossett
Illustrated Victorian map of West Yorkshire
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Ossett books
Displaying 3 of 23 books about Ossett and the local area. View all Ossett books
Yorkshire Coastal Memories Photographic Memories
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Ilkley Town and City Memories
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Yorkshire County Memories
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4 Ossett photos appear in 1 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Ossett
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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
West Yorkshire memories
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
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
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
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
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 Ossett & West Yorkshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Ossett, inspired by Frith photos.
Wakefield and the Five Towns Living Memories
Here we see the Yorkshire Penny Bank (left) in the 1893 building which was originally the post office. To the right is the Liberal Club, also of 1893, and further along is the old Mechanics' Institute (1889) with its own collection of over 800 books. Today the building houses the town's comprehensive public library. Ossett's GNR railway station was open until 1964.
This is an extract from Wakefield and the Five Towns Living Memories.
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Wakefield and the Five Towns Living Memories
Station Road was laid out in the late 19th century, and contained many prominent institutions.
This is an extract from Wakefield and the Five Towns Living Memories.
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Wakefield and the Five Towns Living Memories
This view is now much changed. The Green Congregational Chapel replaced an earlier one near to the Kings Mills.
This is an extract from Wakefield and the Five Towns Living Memories.
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