Jack Brayshaw

>S Busfield and Sons Provision Merchants, located on the High Street. Originally a slide taken by E E Slater.

The spinning mule was invented by Samuel Crompton Circa 1775-1779.
Prior to this the spinning of yarn was carried out by women…

Winter had truly set in with a vengeance and Maughan’s Bakery on Yeadon High Street, shows off some

Milner and Firth’s shuttle works began in Bradford in 1866 then later they moved to Yeadon, initially they were located in a section…

The donor of this photo John Wheatley, told us that this is his uncle William Wheatley, aged 21. He worked for…

This shop was located at the bottom of the Steep (Town Street), note the bow fronted lower windows.

The landlord was William Kirkbright, the boy in the doorway is his son Norman.
In later life Norman became a popular Maths teacher at Benton Park School for many years.

The girl is Marion German (nee Armitage), the woman with her is Ivy Lawson.
The beer advertised outside the White Swan is…

This public House/Hotel is located on Henshaw Lane and, was in the early 1900s named the Malt Sack.

The Tarn was built on approximately the site of a previous pub called the Commercial, built around 1853 it closed in 1962. The Tarn closed c2015 and was…