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Historic maps of Pool In Wharfedale and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Pool In Wharfedale maps
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Living on Pool Bank New Road
We moved to Pool in 1943 as my father had a job as an aircraft inspector at the factory at what is now Leeds & Bradford Airport.
We lived in a house one corner up from the notorious Furze Hill Corner which was a very regular place for serious road accidents. I remember vividly witnessing an accident involving a car carrying some airmen which failed to negotiate the corner and collided with a Samuel Ledgards bus travelling up the hill towards Bradford. I had only just started school at Pool in Wharfedale C of E school and I was walking home with an older girl from the school whose name I believe was Shirley Lee when the accident happened. The corner was sharp , downhill and with an adverse camber which I think all contributed to the accident
Family Visit
We lived at Troutback for the summer with the Wells family, a lovely experience.
West Yorkshire memories
Village On A Hill
In 1941, shortly before my sixth birthday, I arrived at what was then a large branch of the National Children's Home & Orphanage, at Old Bramhope. To get there I had enjoyed an exciting (for me) train journey from Kings Cross (London) to Leeds Central Station. There followed a walk (I was carried) to Cookridge Street, then a bus to the bottom of Old Pool Bank, and then the long, steep climb up to the top of the hill, where the Home was situated.
Hilton Grange (as it was named) was an (almost) self-contained village on its own, with some external buildings for members of staff. There was a homestead for the Governor and his family (Mr Hodgetts was Governor when I arrived), a working dairy farm, an administration building, a large school, a small hospital, a chapel, five large semi-detached houses (sufficient for 150 girls and boys, and staff), small market gardens with greenhouses, swimming pool, tennis courts, football pitches, hockey pitch, joinery shop, cobbler's shop, and sports... Read more
Ancestors
I live near Leeds and Bradford Airport and have always had connections to Wharfedale and visit it weekly as I live very near. My paternal grandmother was Nelly Hutton (she became a Russell). I had no idea till a lady contacted me on another history website that I had ancestors buried at the lovely protected Stainburn church. I now drive past when I am near and occasionally stop for a peak. I have found it surreal that the gravestones go back for many centuries and I had no idea they were there and neither did any of my Leeds relatives. This little church is worth a stop and is set in such a beautiful setting and I feel pleased that some of my family (Rodgers and Huttons) ancestors are at peace in such a lovely spot.
Swimming in Wharfemeadows Park
Ha ha, I remember them times!.. As I remember you, Sharon. We have a page going on Facebook at the moment, talking about old memories and buildings that have gone, but are not forgotten.
Otley Revisited
I'd visited Otley the town in the 1960s, walking and rockclimbing as a lad of 18 /20 with friends I met at work in the woollen mills of Bradford and Shipley. My first memory is of looking down from the Chevin to this beautiful view of Otley. My new girlfriend Rosemary Finn and I had walked from Yeadon one summer evening 1958/9. We were both 16 year olds and enthralled with the view. In 2005 I again visited Otley and the Chevin on a holiday from Australia and found the view more enthralling than the first time I was there, especially as I was there with my mum at 90 years of age, and still going strong. What memories I have of Otley and the Chvin and my home of Yorkshire. I'm coming home again SOON ... I remember all my mates from Hutton secondary school too, do you?? ... and the Yorkshire puddings ...
Grandfather
It's not really memory but a request. I come from Bedlington in Northumberland and have found out my grandfather was born in Otley on 24/03/1901. He was born in 16 Burras Lane. Today I visited with only this scant information and I was fortunate to see it was still as least a street but the house gone, although the church closeby was more than beautiful. Does anyone have any pics of the houses on that lane? Or memories of them ?
