Nostalgic memories of Shelf's local history

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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.

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I regret that I feel a slight fraud as I have no memories of my own of Shelf, nor have I visited, YET. However, having researched my family tree of Medleys of Yorkshire back to the sixteenth century, the family that comes in to the first censuses lived in Shelf. This family comprised, John (a weaver) and Elisabeth (formerly widow Wilkinson, nee Haell) and their three children, Grace (b 1780), William (b ...see more
Between 1960-62 my dad, Harry Henshall of Westbury Road, Cooperville drove a Jaguar Mark 2, 2.4 litre in two tone grey over Westminster blue and with the registration number XUG384. At this time he worked at Home Silks aka Mandale Mills as Foreman Overlooker. I can't be sure from the picture that it is definitely two-tone or even if it is a Jag but I'd like to think it was him.
I lived there with mum, dad, sister Iris and brother Graham, my sister got married from that house. I have good memories from that house, I remember helping with hay making, feeding a white cow over my garden wall, getting our first TV in Shelf for the Queen's Coronation . My brother went to live at Pepper Hill. I went to Shelf school. My granny and aunts lived opposite a park, we used to pick ...see more
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 Car House Road. We moved a couple of times, once to Cheap Side, Shelf Moor, then to Burned Road just across from the post office. I worked at Stump Cross garage near Shibden Park ...see more
Yes, that's the name we gave them later on in our youth. No one did fish and chips like Mr Buttler and his wife, only costing a few pence to my knowledge. We used to put loads of salt and vinigar on. Then this loud voice would say 'That's enough lads, off you go' . Buttlers even became a hang-out place for our gang once over. When I look back I think it was his fish and chips why we hung out there. My ...see more
At the time we lived near Coley church, mum, dad, sister June, brother Paul and me, Steven. I remember moving up to Burnley Hill Terrace near the Duke of York on a  horse and cart. I didn't realise then but it was our first house with a bathroom, it must of been heaven for mum and dad not having to get that bath tub out anymore. It was a loving warm house where 3 more brothers came later on. I have fond memories of dad, ...see more