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Owston maps

Historic maps of Owston and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Owston maps

Owston map

Historic map of Owston

South Yorkshire map

Illustrated Victorian map of South Yorkshire

Owston map

Historic Map of any Owston postcode

Owston maps
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Owston photos

We have no photos of Owston, although we do have photos of these nearby places: Askern, Skellow, Bentley

Owston books

Displaying 3 of 23 books about Owston and the local area.   View all Owston books

Yorkshire Coastal Memories Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14

Ilkley Town and City Memories
Paperback
£13

Yorkshire County Memories
Paperback
£15

Owston books
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Memories of Owston

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South Yorkshire memories

My childhood

I was born in this year, but do not have much to remember from then. About 1974 and I remember playing with a few children in the village. The Lister children really I rember. The Twiggs lived in the Abbey. I spent endless happy days there with the horses. The ghosts, mainly monks from the abbey. I lived in 3 Station... [more]

Shared on 21 October 2009 by Elizabeth Houghton.

All our Yesterdays

I was born into a family of 6 brothers and four sisters in 1936, attending Barnby Dun infants and primary schools and then Armthorpe secondary modern school until the age of 15. Our family ran a large market garden on Top Road, the house was named Leven Croft. Our mother's brother Tommy sired a family of 10 children. I worked for Arthur Coates at... [more]

Shared on 25 October 2009

My father at Doncaster grammar school

My father John Granville Turner attended Doncaster Grammar School in the 1910s. He was born in 1904 so would have started in the early 1910s, I assume. He was for a time a boy soprano at the school. He also spent at least one Christmas at Shibden Hall but there is no record of him there so I wonder if he... [more]

Shared on 07 December 2008

Conisborough Castle

I lived in Rawmish, and as a special treat my dad's mate Tony Williams got his mate the caretaker to let me have my own personal look roun't castle. My dad used to work at the pit offices in Denaby. When I used to go and see my dad in't olidays I'd go train spotting to the station and then ride... [more]

Shared on 23 May 2008 by Steve Wright.

Extracts From Owston & South Yorkshire books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Owston, inspired by Frith photos.

Whitby Photographic Memories

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]

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Whitby Photographic Memories

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.

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Whitby Photographic Memories

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]

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