Sam Brown, Bell-Ringer, Guiseley – 1934
He was born in 1849 and if looks could count for anything he will still be pulling his weight in 1949,
Smallpox in Yeadon – 1837
In the spring of 1837, Isabella Yeadon who was John’s granddaughter had a severe form of Smallpox.
South View School, 1905 – 1915
I haven’t any pictures but I went there from being about three years old until leaving at the age of thirteen in 1915.
The Quakers of Rawdon, 1600 – 1861
Their refusal to take an oath meant they could not hold public office nor enter Parliament.
Valerie Ryan, Emsley’s Store, Rawdon – 1930s Onward
They often sat in a small room overlooking the shop and answered phone calls from customers and suppliers telephone number Rawdon 51!
Yeadon Town Hall, 1800 – 2014
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.
