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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 ...Read more
A memory of Otley in 2005 by
My Fading Memories
I was but a lad of 8 when my folks bundled us all off to a wide land downunder. Since 1968, Australia has been my home. I often speak of my fading memories of Queensbury, my walks through the village, living on 'The Mountain', ...Read more
A memory of Queensbury in 1968 by
Thomas Binns 1845 1921 No 1 The Green Later No 3 Grange Cottages
Hello - I would be very grateful for any information - especially photos - of my ancestor Thomas Binns who moved from Cowling to Micklethwaite c. 1898. He had built Carr ...Read more
A memory of Micklethwaite in 1900 by
Happy Youth
I first found out about when I moved to Great Horton in Bradford about 1952. I met a boy called Philip Tempest who lived in a house near by, we became life long friends. His parent took me on holiday with them to a cottage they owned in ...Read more
A memory of Nesfield in 1950 by
The Local Dances And Playing Pool
In the mid 1950s to early 1960s there were local dance halls, one at Newburn which was down Station Road, take a left towards the bridge and it was just there on the left side opposite the level crossings near ...Read more
A memory of Newburn in 1955 by
Invicta Knitting Mills South Kirkby
Regarding your message, Jennifer Paley nee Bradford. It was so good to see the picture of Invicta Knitting Mills again and to hear you had worked there. It was very sad to see it today, as my father in law ...Read more
A memory of South Kirkby in 1958 by
Bugdens' Dairy Jubilee Road
For 3 years from 1957 to 1960 (age 12 to 15) I was employed as a milk roundsman assistant by Bert and Bill Bugden of Jubilee Road, Mytchett, to deliver milk at weekends to Ash Vale and Ash. I have included my memories of this ...Read more
A memory of Mytchett by
An Industrial Village
Having grown up in Birstall I have a fondness for this little market town in West Yorkshire, situated approximately 8 miles from Leeds and centrally placed for easy access to other major towns Bradford, Huddersfield and ...Read more
A memory of Birstall by
Living In Shelf 1971 1981
My mom lived in the shop at Shelf Roundabout but moved away to Bradford, I think when she met my dad. When I was 8 my mom, now on her own, must have felt the pull back to Shelf and brought me and my sister, Linda to live on ...Read more
A memory of Shelf by
Cinema In Batley Carr
The name of the cinema at the top of Batley Carr was the Collins. I went there many times as a lad. I lived on Upper Cross Street on Bradford Road near the bottom of Mill Road.
A memory of Batley Carr in 1958 by
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Saltaire station lies on the Midland Railway route between Bradford and Skipton.
Batley was one of the pioneers of steam trams; they ran from 1874, and the depot in Bradford Road later became Wilson's Mill.
Saltaire owes its existence to Sir Titus Salt, who moved his alpaca and mohair mills here in the 1850s.
The Mill Bridge in the pretty hamlet of Alport crosses the River Bradford near its confluence with the Lathkill, three miles south of Bakewell.
Saltaire is on the Midland Railway main line from Bradford to Skipton.
FOR MANY YEARS, after the decline of the weaving industry, the manufacture of rubber linked the two West Wiltshire towns of Bradford on Avon and Melksham.
Saltaire is on the Midland Railway main line from Bradford to Skipton.
The 19th-century Abbey Mill contrasts with the 15th-century church tower, which possibly replaced a smaller Norman one.
Bingley was a busy mill town; at one time these numbered nineteen.
Here splendid gardens, with statues of Salt, offered healthy living to the workers at the giant mill.
Here splendid gardens, with statues of Salt, offered healthy living to the workers at the giant mill.
This area was built by the mill owner Titus Salt as a model industrial village alongside a canal, river and railway, well away from the pollution of Bradford.
