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Historic maps of Owlthorpe and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Owlthorpe maps
Owlthorpe photos
We have no photos of Owlthorpe, although we do have photos of these nearby places: Woodhouse, Gleadless, Eckington, Hemsworth, Swallownest, Killamarsh, AstonOwlthorpe books
Displaying 3 of 23 books about Owlthorpe and the local area. View all Owlthorpe books
Yorkshire Coastal Memories Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14
Ilkley Town and City Memories
Paperback
£13
Yorkshire County Memories
Paperback
£15
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Memories of Owlthorpe
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South Yorkshire memories
I remember living at 2 Chapel Street, it was a grocery shop fronting a farm owned by the Jarvis family. And I remember my uncle charging accumalators in a shed in their back yard.
Posted by Ted Williams.
Shared on 25 August 2009
The Parish Church at Hemsworth is where my parents were married and where me and my twin sisters were christened. In 1959 I was a bridesmaid for my aunt when she got married. The last time I was in the church was for my cousin's funeral a few years ago. I have a copy of this photograph on my lounge wall... [more]
Shared on 29 January 2007
As a small child and a grown woman with children of my own I remember waiting for the Wakefield bus after a visit to my grandparents. Some times it would be the West Riding bus, at other times it was the United one. Until his death in 1973 Grandad, whenever possible, would walk us down to the bus stop and wait... [more]
Shared on 11 November 2006
I remember sliding down Outcrop and sitting on wooden steps leading to Brookhouse pit. On pay day miners used to give us some coppers and we would share them out. I used to go and see Guddy Pearson, a homeless man who lived in one of derelict houses on Aston Terrace. Our roundabout was at the sewerage, they had a thing... [more]
Shared on 14 October 2008
Extracts From Owlthorpe & South Yorkshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Owlthorpe, 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.
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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.
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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.
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Read more and see photos from this book.
