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This photo was taken prior to Wilkinsons taking over the butcher’s shop on Harrogate Road.

Demolition work taking place at the manse….

Mansell & Hatcher grew orchids in Cragg Wood on the site of the first Baptist Chapel…

A view of Markham Avenue taken in the 1960s. Photographer Charles Lideard, donated…

The Reverend Samuel Marsden sent the first wool from Australia to his nephew in Leeds who thought it was…

Rawdon Amateur Dramatic Society, Florence Marshall of the RADS in a…

Meadow Cottage, it possibly had a commercial use. There are security bars on the window…

Here with Peggy, now in her 90s is legendary in Aireborough from her time working as Ledgard’s…

Ronald Metcalfe, verger at St. Peter’s church and also the caretaker of St. Peter’s school is seen here winding…

A line drawing of Micklefield House, Rawdon….

At the junction of Harrogate Road and the A65 New Road side, looking across at the…

This was it is believed to be the home of the Parratt family. The master of the house was a stonemason….

A view of Micklefield Lane, on the reverse a message reads: “Hope this will find…

Rev. Miller was a Curate at St. Oswald’s Church.

He was born on October 10th 1786 at Dunnace, Dumfries, Scotland, he came to Yorkshire to join his older brother…