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Ulleskelf

Hiya Luke and Liam if your reading this then your probably on the phone to me .coming up at the weekend hope 2 see you then i probably will. ask nana if i can stay there if not ill sleep round hal's. 2005/2006 where the best years of my life at Ulleskelf. I lived with my nana and grandad. Graham and Karolyn Turner. I lived next door to the Ramsden family. Also i lived with my two annoying brothers Luke and Liam Dean. I had quite a lot of friends like Hal Ramsden and Chris Simson. I had lived there the past two years and enjoyed my time there a lot. Until I had to move in 2006. I went to ...read more here
A memory of Ulleskelf contributed by Patrick Dean

Childhood memories

I was born in Harewood in 1971 and lived 14 amazingly happy childhood years there!!
My father was born there in 1947 and he has amazing tales of his childhood too!!
My memories were of taking a picnic and heading out on adventures to "the rockies" with tunnels and caves; now I understand they were built by the landscape artist Capability Brown.  We would venture deep into the woods to "the roman pool" and catch tadpoles and newts, a few accidents with us falling in!!  Then before dusk it would be a trip to the castle to climb up the steep, spiral staircase to the top of the world!!!  I think it was falcons that used to nest up there, but ...read more here
A memory of Harewood contributed by Jennie elstone

The Norfolk Family

I am John Howard Norfolk and although I have never lived in Yorkshire I know that my Norfolk family were farmers, millers and tanners in Harewood and nearby Wharfedale villages for many hundreds of years until the late 1800's. I have found records of my Norfolk family living in the parish going back to the early 1600's.

I have visited the church in Harewood and found several family graves - how alarming it is to see a tombstone with your own name, John Norfolk, on it !  

Some of the family lived in Harewood Mill and others in the nearby hamlet of Dunkeswick. Looking at the area in modern times at so much farmland and parkland ...read more here
A memory of Harewood contributed by John Howard Norfolk

Ninelands Primary School

I was only thinking about my early education recently, then one evening I stumbled across this photo of my old school.  I was only a baby when my family, along with thousands over the years, moved to the commuter (only it wasn't called that then) village of Garforth.  I remember my first morning at this school, it must have been in 1967 when I would have been four going on five.  I went for the morning, and hid in the wendy house because I was having such a good time I didn't want to leave!  The infants at that time were housed on the ground floor and each classroom had a door so that the kids could play outside with the ...read more here
A memory of Garforth contributed by First Name Last Name