Jack Brayshaw

By the 1800s society had begun to change as the Industrial Revolution took families from their cottage industries and gave them work in the mills which were being built throughout the country.

The Collier Family of Nether Yeadon, a study by Oliver Pickering of Menston.

In the spring of 1837, Isabella Yeadon who was John’s granddaughter had a severe form of Smallpox.

Hannah died when John (junior) was seven months old. That would have been around June 1765.

I was one day with others playing at noon about the churchyard and I swore a profane oath. Mr Willoughby …

Were they true? Just at the time I chose to find out it became harder to know at least from the first hand sources.

Inquires led them to assume at 11d per mile would be a fair estimate of the cost of working covering all expenses.

The formal opening of the section as far as Green Lane by three decorated cars it is recorded “aroused the greatest interest & enthusiasm on the part of the inhabitants”.

Tough Irish navvies with their soiled white hats, plush waistcoats & taste for whisky terrorised the neighbourhood.

The wool was dyed in a dye-house near the defunct Carlton Workhouse & the field in which it was situate still retains the name of Leadhouse Garth.