West Witton, 1911

redmire children

My great great grandparents arrived in Redmire in the 1840s or thereabouts.  
This photo was taken in 1929 when my mother would have been about nine or ten.  She was born in Redmire in 1921 to George and Ellenor Miller who had five more children William, Ethel, Lillian, John and Mary.  The family were all stonemasons through the census years.  My interest is in this photo.  The girl with the longest hair resembles my eldest daughter.  Can anyone name her or her family?   I would be very grateful.  I myself spent quite a few times up there in the summer holidays and stayed with my grandad and uncle John at the Railway Cottages where they lived.  Has anyone got any old photos they could let me see, school ones maybe?  The view from the Railway Cottages is breathtaking over the village.  I love the place like a passion. I was up there last summer and it has not changed a bit from what I can remember.  The Railway Cottages is now one house, there used to be two and there is not a way through the field now.  There is a road up to the house.   Thank you. Josephine.

Childhood visits to Leyburn.

My grandmother's sister and brother-in-law (Elsie and Harry Walton) lived most of their married life in Leyburn. I have happy memories of going there with my grandmother, and staying there with them in the school holidays. I remember going to the old tea-rooms in the Market Square, and having tea-cakes and cream cakes, they were delicious. Sadly my great-aunt and uncle are no longer here, but I still have good memories of them, and of Leyburn.   
Brenda.

Autons of Leyburn

My gggggrandfather,lived At Hammer Gate in 1841.
His son James moved with his family to Grove Square.1851
James's brother William lived at 24 Market place in 1861
The family of James Autons then moved to 74 Commercial Square1861
Only my gggg Uncle William stayed in Leyburn .He was a Solicitors Clerk.
He and his wife.ran the Stamp office at 43 High St, they were also Glass and China Dealers. 1891.In 1901 uncle William moved to 6 Commerial Sq
Some of my cousins lived at Grove Square.

Norman Barber - watchmaker and jeweller

The jaguar on the right belonged to Norman Barber and was parked outside his shop in Leyburn. At this time my husband, Cedric Barber, was probably in class at Leyburn County Primary School (now an old peoples' home). Cedric's second cousin, Janet Green, lives a short distance from the scene of this photograph.

This picture is Middleham Suspension Bridge.