Rawdon Categories
Verity, Hedley – Undated
Hedley Verity, famous spin bowler who lived in Rawdon. He was commissioned into the Green Howards Yorkshire Regiment in the Second World War and drafted to the Middle East. He was captured and interned…
Victory Allotments – 1919
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. (1)
W.B.Cartwright & Co, Ltd, were manufacturing chemists (William Bramwell Cartwright resided at Cragmere, in…
W B Cartwright & Co. Ltd. (2)
W B Cartwright & Co. Ltd. – 1919 The caption reads, ‘A portion of the printing…
Wadham, Joyce – 1951
Two of the ladies who regularly acted in Yeadon Townswomen’s Guild Drama Group’s…
Wallis, Family – Undated
Peter then bought the Westbourne Hotel in Otley where the family continued to please their fans.
War Memorial 1926
This Memorial Cross stands in the Garden of Remembrance, it is made of Bolton Woods stone, the work to construct…
Wedding Group 1897
Dressed in beautiful period clothes is a wedding party outside 4 Apperley Lane. There appear to…
Whitelands Quarry
A crane with driver at Whitelands Quarry which would have produced stone thought to have been…
Wilkinson, Herman & Family – c1914 Onwards
Herman Wilkinson seen here posing for a photograph dressed in his military uniform, c1914-1918….
William Thompson, Park Mill – c1800s
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 …
