Rawdon Categories

Rawdon Brass Band in uniform with their instruments, the drummer is possibly Tom Houlden who was born in 1856….

…Patrick Bronte married Maria Branwell at St. Oswald’s Church, Guiseley. Charlotte was born on…

Three bronze axes which were discovered in Cragg Wood in 1867.

Enjoying the annual Aireborough Historical Society dinner are Ann and Donald Exley and Ann Brown.

This entrance to Buckstone Drive, just off Micklefield Lane, it now…

The land which Buckstone Hall was built on belonged to William Exley, the house was…

…He married Anne Marie Fotherby in 1842 who, before her death in 1859, gave birth to seven offspring….

A lorry belonging to C W Wade of Low Mills, cloth dyers & finishers. ….

The bottom of Canada Road taken in 1907. Behind the photographer is the Harrogate Road,…

A crowd has gathered round an upturned vehicle, the location is thought to be New Road Side.

Carr Lane runs from Town Street Rawdon down to Leeds Road….

A “Celtic” head on the wall of a fish and chip shop, New Road Side. It is possible…

This was the First Christian Science Church.

This building stands at the junction of Harrogate Road and New Road Side. It was the co-op stores until the new Central Stores…

Memorial board for servicemen of WW1, situated in the box office Yeadon Town Hall.