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Skelmanthorpe, Commercial Road c1955
Skelmanthorpe, Elm Street c1955
Skelmanthorpe, Commercial Road, towards Huddersfield c1955
Historic maps of Skelmanthorpe and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Skelmanthorpe maps
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Yorkshire Coastal Memories Photographic Memories
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Ilkley Town and City Memories
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North Yorkshire Photographic Memories
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This was my school transported from Birdsedge to school each day, quite a trip. Lots of great memories, 1949-50-51- those were the years I attended. I remember the school flat we got to play house for a whole week and miss the regular classes.
Doreen Osborne
Shared on 11 February 2009
I was born 1949 in Huddersfield and lived in Skelmanthorpe until 1970. I was delighted to see the photos of Skelmanthorpe taken in the fifties. It brought back wonderful childhood memories of things that I'd already forgotten. I remembered going to Bower's Newsagent to pay for our papers once every week, the chemist shop next door and then there was a greengrocer nearby called Wraggs if I remember rightly. Also a small pretty little shop called Lawton's who sold mirrors and plates etc. We also visited the Savoy picture house once a week although the films were over one year old before they got to Skelmanthorpe. It didn't matter because no one had colour TV in those days so the picture house was something special. I went to the county primary school in Skelmanthorpe and later to Honley Grammar School. I've been living in Germany since 1970 so I have no idea what happened to all the friends I had during my childhood. Maybe someone who reads this can remember Angela Hodgson as I was called then. I would be delighted to hear from someone who I knew in those days. No one ever forgets their roots, wherever they go. I will definately keep an eye on this page for further information or photos of Skelmanthorpe.
Shared on 23 March 2008
Just down the road from the Shoulder of Mutton pub was Ackroyds coffee bar. In the 60s we young ones would meet, listen to the juke box, drinking frothy coffee.
The horse and cart outside the pub belonged to Herman Wood the local milkman. The cart was a daily sight outside the pub.
Shared on 11 November 2006
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Skelmanthorpe, inspired by Frith photos.
Severely modern and uncompromising in its architecture, this grammar school symbolised the progressive educational changes of the post-war period. In 1966 proposals were put forward to reorganise the education system within 15 years. It was decreed that all children aged 11 to 18 years would attend comprehensive schools. In the interim period comprehensives were split between those taking 11 to 13 year olds, and those taking 13 to 18 year olds.
After the 1930s the next blow to the Woollen District came in the 1960s with the import of cheap Italian heavy-woollen skirtings and coatings. Even after taking transportation costs into account, cheap labour enabled the Italians to undersell heavy-woollen Yorkshire-made products.
The Angel Hotel was one of three hotels that catered for motorists, the others being the George and Dragon, and the Brunswick. The Angel was a substantial establishment, with stabling for a hundred horses. Forty pairs of horses were maintained at the inn for posting.
