Title | Aireborough Historical Society (AHS) Events |
Date | 2013 |
Location | Yeadon |
Photo ID | FBA064 |
Comment | Article Airedale & Wharfedale Observer – 2013: On Thursday Sept 26th 2013, the article described the work of AHS volunteers led by Carlo Harrison, the team are digitally archiving the photographs, ephemera and artefacts of Aireborough historical Society. |
FBA099 – AHS, Events, 2013.
Billboard – 2013
The billboard announcing the “Historic images archive”
G225 – AHS, Events, 2014.
Crich, Derbyshire – 2014
AHS excursion to the Crich Tramway Museum.
G226 – AHS, Events, 2014.
Crich, Derbyshire – 2014
Members on a Blackpool tram , Bill & Christine Lovedale smiling for the photographer Edwy Harling.
G245 – AHS, Events, 2014.
AHS Archive Team – 2014
The archive team (volunteers) meet up and archive donations every Monday afternoon in Yeadon Town Hall, where the collection is based. Edwy Harling volunteer. Edwy looks after the master digital archive.
C481 – AHS, Events, 2014.
AHS Archive Team – 2014
Howard German and Christine Lovedale volunteers.
Howard has been cataloguing 35mm slides digitally, as well as contributing a lot of images himself to the collection. Christine (custodian of the archives) researches information for the images and writes up the text for the archives as well as cataloguing our finer more delicate artefacts.
C482 – AHS, Events, 2014.
AHS Archive Team – 2014
Vera Firth volunteer, Vera has been a member for many years and spends time indexing the items that Christine researches.
C483 – AHS, Events, 2014.
AHS Archive Team – 2014
Two more volunteers Dennis Court and Jean Dean sorting and listing documents. They have both spent their lives in the area and contribute valuable information, sadly Dennis passed away.
C484 – AHS, Events, 2014.
AHS Archive Team – 2014
Linda Storey and Edwy Harling both have created the on-line index system for the digital archive collection. Linda has also catalogued & placed thousands of photographs into albums .
C485 – AHS, Events, 2014.
AHS Archive Team – 2014
Carlo Harrison volunteer, when Carlo joined the team he instigated digitising the collection and creating an AHS website. In the background is Vera Firth and Christine Lovedale.
C500 – AHS, Events, 2014.
AHS Annual Lunch – 2014
Venue Peasehill House Hotel, seated from the left Tony Wintle, Dennis Court And Avril Harrison.
C412 – AHS, Events, 2014.
AHS Annual Lunch – 2014
On the left Robert Brown with Roger Halliwell (AHS Committee ) on the right.
D365 – AHS, Events, 2014.
AHS Annual Lunch – 2014
Enjoying lunch on the left Jean Hickenbottom, middle Emily Holroyd and on the right Vera Firth.
G460 – National Heritage Day, 2014.
National Heritage Day – 2014
Part of a display in Yeadon Town Hall staged by Aireborough Historical Society to mark the Centenary of WW1. Many items from the Society’s archive were seen by the large number of people who visited.
Photographer Edwy Harling.
L131 – AHS, Events, 2015.
Visit to Liverpool – 2015
A trip enjoyed by many members.
P231 – AHS, Events, 2015.
AHS National Heritage Day exhibition – 2015
The AHS committee, archive team along with some members put together an exhibition , open to the public for a day.
The theme was “Only Yesterday, the lost buildings of Yeadon”
Consolidated by: Elaine Ellwood. 25 February 2021.
Last updated: 02 February 2023 – All images reviewed.