St. Oswald’s Church – 1920/22
Canon Howson, Curates & Parishioners. Canon Howson was the Rector of St. Oswald’s Church.
Most of the people seen here have been identified:
Back row, left to right: Dora Busfield, Marion Brown, Leslie Hollingworth (his father was headmaster of St. Oswald’s Cof E school), Bill Learmouth, Reuben Cutler, ? Rawnsley, churchwarden, Alan Ludle, ?, ?, Albert Steel, Jack Barratt, Alice Heaton, Ruth Cribb.
Row 3, left to right: Olive Midgeley, Ruby Jones, Frank Busfield (nicknamed Tenky), Willie Knipe, Mary Potts, Emily Barbara Cribb Mary Stansfield, ?, ?, Miss Tee, Mary Smith, Miss Tee, Dorence Rawnsley (nee Walton), Edith Walton, Jessie Barratt (nee Brown).
Row 2, left to right: Lucy Weyman, Mabel Waite (nee Ludley), Doris Newton, Mary Vann, Doris Brough, ? Miller (Curate), Canon Howson, ? Butterworth (Curate), Nellie Newbould, Mary Ward (Died young), Letha Martha Busfield, Fanny Crowther, Amy Ludley (adopted sister of Mabel Waite), Isobel Thompson.
Front row, left to right: Nora Yeadon, ?, Betty Cutler (nee Exley, wife of Reuben), Ethel Potts, Marion Garth (married Harry Howard of Otley), Edith Waite.
St. Oswald’s Church – 1926
Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of York is in the centre, his robe held by two boys.
Lang was appointed Archbishop of York in 1908 and became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1928.
He was a vocal critic of King Edward VIII, and played a major part in the Abdication crisis of 1936.
In 1942, he retired and was created a Baronet.