| Title | J E Thompson |
| Date | c1900s |
| Location | Yeadon |
| Photo ID | SL086 |
| Comment | Mr Thompson was a blacksmith, he is shaping a metal object on the point of his anvil using a hammer and tongs. Around 1910 a blacksmith named Thompson was listed on Kirk Lane. Image originally on a glass slide taken by E E Slater of Yeadon. |
James Edward Thompson’s birth was registered early in 1873. At the age of twenty-eight and boarding at Thompson’s Buildings he was already a blacksmith and employer. Ten years later, married to Mary Alice Battye, he was registered as a millwright and lived on Kirk Lane. He died in 1937.
Additional research by Helen M.
29 November 2022
Consolidated by Jack Brayshaw. 15 July 2022.
Last updated: 30 November 2022 – Additional text.
