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Church Institute used to play at "The Showfield" which was the field in which Skipton Show used to be held. The field is just on the Embsay Road just off the the main Skipton to Harrogate Road, by...
Chris Windle
| 13/05/2010 14:16:25 |
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This yard was built at the rear of Birtwhistle property in the High St.The Birtwhistles were drovers and cattle-dealers.The most famous was John Birtwhistle who as early as the 1840's travelelled as...
j m varley
| 19/04/2010 10:57:46 |
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I was born and brought up - to the age of 4 - in this street, moving in 1954. The picture looks to be of houses on the Water Street side of the street. Houses opposite - where I was born - had no...
Keith Paley
| 17/03/2010 15:29:30 |
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The protruding new extension was completed in the late 1950s and was used for morning assembly, etc, in place of the Old Hall that was situated in the older part of the school - see photo 00270
John Buckman
| 14/02/2010 20:13:37 |
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The old tin tab,still there but obviously rebuilt,the building behind is the tong po house,(chinese take away),the gap between houses is Clitharoe st, I lived at No 3 from 1970 onwards. On the left,...
A Hall
| 19/01/2010 13:27:59 |
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The corner building was the post office. the large building was old coop. now houses, just b4 ambulance station.
A Hall
| 19/01/2010 13:12:52 |
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What happy memories I have of this pool. I spent virtually every day during the summer holiday between 1979 and 1984. I started Brougham street Primary school in 1973. My Grandma lived at 4...
Natalie Pearce (nee Benson)
| 18/01/2010 11:59:00 |
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My Dad worked at this Tannery, he took me there one weekend whilst he was working overtime the smell was horrid!! ( late 1950's)
Lynda Marley (nee Crayden)
| 11/12/2009 20:43:07 |
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Could it be possible to be put in touch with the relative of Leeming Varley as I am tracing that particular family tree.
Lynda Marley
| 11/12/2009 20:06:48 |
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If I can remember correctly the Banana sheds were owned by Mr Bailey
Lynda M arley (nee Crayden)
| 11/12/2009 19:58:11 |
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Tom Clarke was wounded on 11th of March 1915 at Neuve Chapple in France and died on the 19th March at Netley Military Hospital aged 24. He was the eldest son of a family of sixteen of Thomas Henry...
j m varley
| 13/11/2009 10:38:22 |
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The Joiners Arms was the fourth house from the the bottom of the eastside of Commercial St. There was a Oddfellows Arms in Upper Commercial St but I don't know if any photo's of it exist.
j m varley
| 12/11/2009 11:18:53 |
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Is this building not the Library?
Dean A Walls
| 25/10/2009 19:17:24 |
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This is the father of Charlie Mathers jnr. He drove the hearse for both Stevesons and Hutchinsons Albion Yard.Charlie jnr the undertaker had premises at the back of the Post Office and later behind...
j m varley
| 24/09/2009 17:34:51 |
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Over Wilderness Beck is the back entrance to Birtwhistle Yard, used as a short cut to the High St. When the shops were open you could also use the back double doors of Woolworths and go through the...
j m varley
| 10/09/2009 10:34:17 |
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The illuminated clock was installed May 20th 1912. Manby's closed 1986 about 170 years trading.
j m varley
| 17/08/2009 15:03:24 |
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Going by 'Craven's Part in the Great War', F Company of the 6th Battalion (West Riding Regiment) recruited from Settle. In December 1914 the 8 companies of the Battalion were amalgamated into 4. F...
steve howarth
| 13/08/2009 23:26:39 |
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I may be wrong, but I'm sure I remember this shop still selling shoes when I was a child in the 70s. It had yellow plastic up at the windows.
C Hunter
| 04/08/2009 20:46:30 |
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My Collins grandparents lived at 59 Newmarket St and I remember living with them during the war. They died in the 1950.s
Rita Collins
| 01/08/2009 17:23:21 |
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My Grandparents (Metcalfe) lived at 1 Commercial St in 1885 and my Mother was born there. In 1881 my Grandparents (Collins) lived in No 30 where my father was born.1905
Rita Collins
| 01/08/2009 17:15:21 |
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