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Wakefield photos

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Wakefield maps

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

Wakefield map

Historic map of Wakefield

West Yorkshire map

Illustrated Victorian map of West Yorkshire

Wakefield map

Historic Map of any Wakefield postcode

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Wakefield books

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Wakefield and the Five Towns Living Memories
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Yorkshire Coastal Memories Photographic Memories
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Ilkley Town and City Memories
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Wakefield books
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Memories of Wakefield

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West Yorkshire memories

Cheesecake Inn

I was born in 1952 and was raised in Cheesecake Inn.  This was the original name for the farm next to the Church.  When I was growing up there it was called Church Farm.  I have many happy memories growing up in Kirkthorpe.
I spent many hours in Sycamore Cottage with the lady who lived there (Rose Richardson) and her... [more]

Shared on 08 June 2008 by Lynda Riddington.

The Cluntergate man

This old bloke used to haul this massive horse-wagon up Cluntergate, on a regular basis. I mean Cluntergate was this hill... 1 in 12 about... and this bloke used to haul this massive horse-drawn wagon up to the top and beyond. I never knew where he went, or where he came from. He wasn't very big, only a small, scrawny feller,... [more]

Shared on 19 August 2009 by Sylvia Kellett.

Market place

I was brought up in Ossett from 1948 to 1966 when I joined the armed forces. I remember very well every Saturday afternoon we would go to the palladium picture house opposite the town hall. We did not have a bus station at that time so all buses would park around the town hall. Shops that spring to mind were Inghams... [more]

Shared on 06 March 2009 by Barry Cascarino.

Normanton High Street

The shop (bottom left, with pram outside) was Babyland, the town's toy shop since at least the 1920's. My father bought his first bicycle there when he began work at the age of 14 in 1928.

Shared on 05 March 2009 by Philip Hammond.

The Grammar School

I remember climbing onto the roof of the Grammar School - I was in the fifth form, so this would be 1964 or 1965 - and scratching my name on the slates there, underneath my dad's name. He must have done it about 1932. And organising a Review when I was in the sixth form, with the money raised going towards... [more]

Shared on 25 August 2008 by Steve Hill.

Evacuee

I was an evacuee in Middlestown in WWII, from East London. The first time was with my Mother and we were billeted in a small cottage which backed on to a barn belonging to a farm run by Mr and Mrs Cowan. We were there for approximately a year and my memories of that first year are rather blurred. We came... [more]

Shared on 16 December 2008 by Derek Ettridge.

Highfield House/Cottage /Earlsheaton

The best of my childhood memories are of Highfield House and Highfield Cottage in the late part of the 60s and early 70s. The summers always seemed hot and the days were long and happy. I come from a large family and we always had so much fun in the fields at the back of the house, rolling from the top... [more]

Shared on 27 July 2008 by Maggie Benham.

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its a small village with great past dick turpin jim_morrison@hotmail.co.ukin hood battle of the roses

Shared on 11 May 2008 by Cllr Selby Selby.

Extracts From Wakefield & West Yorkshire books

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

Yorkshire Living Memories

The abundance of Union Jacks and other flags in this view of Wakefield indicates that the photograph was taken in 1953, the year of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation. A sign across the street advertises the Great Yorkshire Show held in early July, and the Coronation was on 2 June. In the background is the spire of the 14th-century cathedral church of... [more]

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West Yorkshire Photographic Memories

This 14th-century chapel was built on the bridge as a memorial to Richard, Duke of York, who was killed at Wakefield. It was hoped that travellers crossing into the town would benefit from simple prayer. The building was renovated in 1848, but within forty years smoke and pollution had again damaged the pinnacles. The old chapel front was purchased during renovation... [more]

This is an extract from West Yorkshire Photographic Memories.
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Wakefield and the Five Towns Living Memories

Here we see two extremes of worship - the cathedral in the distance, and the more modest St Mary-on- the Bridge. Over to the right once stood the massive King's Mill, used for grinding corn from 1872 until 1933, when it was demolished to make way for the parallel new road bridge. The final cargo of corn arrived by barge from Hull in September 1931.

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