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Yeadon Businesses

The Peacock Inn c1930s – 1992

The original Peacock Inn on Harrogate Road, the landlord was Harry Gooder and the Inn was owned by William Whitaker’s…

The Plant Van

The Plant Van is owned by Erica Ward, since April she has been setting up for Yeadon Market on Fridays between 8am and 3.30pm. Her father was …

The Robin Hood Hotel

Football team outside the Robin Hood, they were the winners of the Yeadon Celtic AFC workshop competition, names supplied on the reverse.

The Shaw Lane Social Club

t is believed that this was a party and some of the names supplied, although they have not in all cases specified exactly where they are stood: …

The Station Hotel

This public House/Hotel is located on Henshaw Lane and, was in the early 1900s named the Malt Sack.

The Tarn Hotel

The Tarn was built on approximately the site of a previous pub called the Commercial, built around 1853 it closed in 1962. The Tarn closed c2015 and was…

The Tut & Shive Hotel

Looking across to a view of the Tut & Shive, one of Yeadon’s oldest public houses, it was formerly called the Robin Hood….

The White Swan Hotel

The girl is Marion German (nee Armitage), the woman with her is Ivy Lawson. The beer advertised outside the White Swan is…

The Woolpack Inn

The landlord was William Kirkbright, the boy in the doorway is his son Norman. In later life Norman became a popular Maths teacher at Benton Park School for many years.

Thompson Waites – 1950s

Exterior of Thompson Waites, Shoddy Mill, four work people are sat on bales of material which would be processed in the mill, ground…

Tom Lee – Greengrocers Shop – 1900

Tom Lee sold fish, fruit and vegetables, he called his shop on the High Street, Yeadon, “Little Market”. There is a…

Transport Company – 1924

The donor of this photo John Wheatley, told us that this is his uncle William Wheatley, aged 21. He worked for…

Urban District Council Officers – c1931

Fifteen photographs of Yeadon Council Officers saved from destruction after the album deteriorated, starting with …

W H Myers – 1927

The following advertisement is taken from a 1927 guide to Yeadon.

W H Womersley – c1900

This shop was located on Well Hill and not to be confused with Womersley’s Central Stores on the High Street.