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Plaque on the allotment site which reads “To the Glory of God and the Valour of Great Britain in the Sacred Cause of Peace and Freedom, these…

W.B.Cartwright & Co, Ltd, were manufacturing chemists (William Bramwell Cartwright resided at Cragmere, in…

W B Cartwright & Co. Ltd. – 1919 The caption reads, ‘A portion of the printing…

Two of the ladies who regularly acted in Yeadon Townswomen’s Guild Drama Group’s…

Peter then bought the Westbourne Hotel in Otley where the family continued to please their fans.

This Memorial Cross stands in the Garden of Remembrance, it is made of Bolton Woods stone, the work to construct…

R L Ward was Headmaster, of St. Peter’s (C of E) School, Rawdon, these photos…

Dressed in beautiful period clothes is a wedding party outside 4 Apperley Lane. There appear to…

A picture post card: Looking down the steps that lead from the top of Over Lane…

This area of Little London was once home to many hand loom weavers. This land was…

A crane with driver at Whitelands Quarry which would have produced stone thought to have been…

Herman Wilkinson seen here posing for a photograph dressed in his military uniform, c1914-1918….

David was President of the Aireborough Historical Society 1999 – 2000.

The mill was leased from the Emmott estate by William Thompson in the early 1800s. He, with his brothers went on to manufacture cloth also …

A house called Windy Brae, built for Mr H A Lilley and designed by architects…