Burton in Lonsdale Sunday School Attendance Register From September to November 1871

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Held at North Yorkshire Record Office at Northallerton

Catalogue Reference PR/BTL.3

Boys

Thos. TOPHAM

Rob. PROCTER

CD GREENHALL

Jno. & Thos. WRATHALL

Jos. ASKEW

Geo. NELSON

Jno. BEECROFT

Jas. MARSHALL

Jas. ARMITSTEAD

Isaac BARGH

Rob. GORRILL

M KIRKBRIDE

Adam WALLBANK

D EDMONDSON

Wm JENKINSON

Jno. THORNBER

Thos. ARMITSTEAD

Thos. DUCKETT

R NELSON

G FLETCHER

Jas. GREEN

AJ ELLWOOD

John DAVIDSON

Thos. HUTCHINSON

Wm. WALMSLEY

Thos. THISTLETHWAITE

Thos. BRAYSHAW

Jno. REDMAYNE

Jno. MILLER

Jno. SEWARD

Wm. KIRKBRIDE

Wm. DUCKETT

Wm. SHUTTLEWORTH

Rob. REDMAYNE

Thos. PROCTER

Wm. KETTLEWELL

Frank THEXTON

Joshua DAVIDSON

William FLETCHER

Thos. STEPHENSON

Giles THORNBER

Jno. METCALFE

Frank BATESON

George WRATHALL

Rd. THISTLEWOOD

John DUCKETT

Richard JENKINSON

John FLETCHER

James MILLER

Wm. BROWN

Henry BRAYSHAW

Wm. THORNBER

JF BULLOCK

Teachers

D TRIFFITT

J PARKER

N HUTCHINSON

J REDMAYNE

Rd. FARRER

Jno. RONSON

C HUTCHINSON

Girls

M HOWSON

E BARGH

B BRADSHAW

J BATESON

MA DUCKETT

MH BARGH

LA WRATHALL

E BELL

MA WALKER

Agnes BRAYSHAW

Jane WALLBANK

Alice J HUTCHINSON

Sarah NELSON

Jane WRATHALL

Frances SEWARD

Ellen DAVIDSON

MA BATESON

Jane A JENKINSON

Eliza E HERDMAN

Eliz. WILSON

Mgt.THORNBER

Hannah SHUTTLEWORTH

Betty KIRKBRIDE

Susan Jane RIDD

Dorothy HUGGINSON

Hannah M BATESON

Jane EDMONDSON

Mgt. REDMAYNE

Letitia SANDHAM

Sarah A KIRKBRIDE

Harriett A WRATHALL

Agnes A WALMSLEY

Isabella HOWSON

Alice FLETCHER

Betsy MILLER

Eliz Jane ASKEW

A Grace BARGH

Sarah A WRATHALL

Annie Jane BARGH

Annie COATES

Isabella HOLDEN

Catherine DAVIDSON

Agnes E PROCTER

Mgt. DUCKETT

R PARKER

Eliz. WALMSLEY

D WRATHALL

Nancy J WRATHALL

Mary Alice BATTY

Buckden Church of England School Logbook Extracts 1904/7

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Held at North Yorkshire Record Office at Northallerton

Catalogue Reference S/BKD

1904

13^th January Helen Smith commenced teaching.

3^rd February Two boys, Wilson and James Lofthouse came to school this morning after the register was closed, consequently are marked absent.

7^th March A meeting was held to appoint a manager for the school. Mr Simpson was elected.

5^th April Readmitted Ernest Wight. Admitted Clare Matilda Watson, infant.

11^th April Admitted Robert Simpson.

18^th April Admitted Annie Lofthouse.

19^th May The School Attendance Officer, Mr Harker complained of the attendance of the infants – Clare Watson is now 5 and never makes a full week’s attendance.

10^th August. Received a medical certificate stating that Nellie Foster is unable to attend school at all this summer.

12^th August. Removed two boy’s names off the register, Frank Kendall and Thomas Gill, they have left.

6^th September No school on account of Kilnsey Gala.

7^th October Clare Watson still absent, having only made 8 attendances in 6 weeks.

11^th October School closed the remainder of the week. It is the Annual Fair and Feast.

20^th October No School today. Several children had gone to the Bradford Exhibition.

4^th November Clare Watson still absent. This child has not made a single attendance this quarter.

18^th November Removed Clare Watson’s name from the register. She has been absent 11 weeks and she has now gone to Ireland.

12^th December The Assistant Teacher, Helen Smith is absent from school having gone home in order to attend the Cambridge Local Examination to qualify as a Pupil Teacher.

1905

3^rd February The boys have with only one exception, Thomas Parrington who is ill, made full attendances this week.

27^th March Removed Mabel and Maude Wight’s names from the register as they have left the village.

12^th May Leyburn Fair today – result a poor attendance.

26^th May This year there are only two infants, one aged 5 one aged 4.

4^th August All children present except Stephen Tennant.

18^th August Stephen Tennant has left the school – gone home.

2^nd October Readmitted Clare Watson.

27^th October Fanny Gill has been absent all week, she is ill.

1906

18^th January Minnie Smith began to act as monitress.

6^th June Fanny Gill and William Gill are in the hospital having been absent since 20^th May.

8^th June Mark Kendall is also under medical treatment.

14^th September Annie Lofthouse came in at 1.10 and was consequently marked absent.

29^th October Three children, Wilson, James and Annie Lofthouse have left the village, which reduces the number on the register to 17.

1907

2^nd April Admitted four scholars Blanche Jackman, Francis Ingham Simpson, Sydney Falshaw and Margaret Sayer.

2^nd June Admitted Ethel Smith. There are now 25 names on the register.

14^th June Thomas Parrington is sick again.

9^th July Thomas Parrington gone away for the rest of the year, only made 3 attendances.

27^th September Thomas Parrington away again, only made two attendances this week.

4^th October Robert Simpson was sent for at 1.30 so his attendance was cancelled.

7^th October Thomas Parrington is ill again having only made 12 attendances in 6 weeks.

22^nd October A case of measles in the village causing one girl, M Sayer to miss school.

11^th November Admitted Arthur Robinson.

22^nd November Margaret Sayer has returned to school after an absence of 4 weeks.

Bolton Abbey/Barden C of E School Extracts 1874-1876

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Held at North Yorkshire Record Office at Northallerton

Catalogue Reference SBNA/1

1874

16^th January MJ Broderick admitted. Robert Titherington played truant on Thursday afternoon.

23^rd January Eliza Stephenson cut her forehead on the desk on Wednesday whilst running about the school during the dinner hour which was against the rules. She had to go home at once but was not seriously hurt and came to school again the next morning.

30^th January Anne Dixon away ill several days.

6^th February Elizabeth Mawson withdrawn from this school. Her parents intend to send her to Hazlewood because it is nearer her home. Ruth Hodgson, Sarah Darnbrough and Robert Titherington were extremely troublesome on Monday.

13^th February Ruth Hodgson absent.

13^th March Eliza Stephenson absent all week having accidentally hurt her leg.

10^th April Fanny Hodgson admitted.

17^th April Susanna Demaine of Oakfield admitted and Isabella Kitching on Monday.

1^st May Sarah Darnbrough went home during morning school without permission on Tuesday.

8^th May Ruth, Mary and Fanny Hodgson left the school their father having had to leave the parish and move to Ilkley.

15^th May Isabella Kitchen absent because her brother has the measles.

5^th June 3 Hagars absent because their brother has measles.

12^th June Susannah and Margaret Moorhouse absent with measles and Sarah Darnbrough and Mary Read.

19^th June Richard Hagar absent through having the measles.

26^th June Mary Read, Maggie Moorhouse and R Hagar returned to school on Thursday. Mary Hagar & TW Hagar absent ill.

14^th August Susan Moorhouse disobedient and rude during morning attendance.

4^th September Sarah Darnbrough began to attend again having been kept away by illness for four weeks.

18^th September Anne Dixon ill absent two days.

2^nd October 4 children from Barden left for the winter.

9^th October Nancy Robinson and Annie Holmes began to attend school again on Monday.

30^th October Ann Dixon absent all week.

6^th November Annie Holmes absent all week ill.

20^th November Elizabeth Mawson absent and Isabella Kitchen through illness.

27^th November Nancy Robinson sent home again on Tuesday morning her little brother having the fever.

4^th December Nancy Robinson’s mother brought her to school again on Monday, she being mistaken about her brother having a fever.

1875

5^th February Isabella Kitchen came to school again.

19^th February George Mawson admitted

12^th March Isabella Kitchen absent ill. Margaret Gill had to go home at noon on Wednesday because she was poorly.

19^th March James and Charles Compton admitted.

2^nd April William Kitchen admitted on Wednesday. Robert Titherington left to go to the new school at Beamsley.

9^th April William Read readmiited on Monday.

16^th April Miss A Speed came to assist with teaching on Monday, the mistress being unwell.

30^th July Miss Agnes F Biggs took charge of this school on Tuesday 27^th. Eight children admitted.

6^th August Nine children admitted on Monday.

13^th August Three children admitted.

10^th September Hannah Jane Gill admitted on Monday.

24^th September Thomas Emmott admitted on Monday.

8^th October Four children admitted.

15^th October Ada Holmes absent several days ill. Three children admitted.

29^th October Catherine and Ellen Atkinson absent all week ill.

3^rd December Annie Lister and Ada Holmes absent all week ill.

17^th December Martha Duckett absent all week.

1876

18^th January Isabella Demaine admitted.

24^th January Ada and Martha Holmes absent several days ill.

14^th February Sarah and James Williamson admitted.

6^th March Ada Holmes absent very ill.

27^th March Isabella Demaine left.

10^th April Sarah Demaine admitted. Elizabeth Holmes and Thomas Emmott left.

19^th May Jane Holmes absent ill.

11^th August Margaret Atkinson and Grace admiited.

25^th August Ada Holmes readmitted.

29th September Harriet Wall left.

13^th October Jane Holmes absent all week.

3^rd November Jeremiah Hagar admitted on Monday.

Bentham Parochial School Logbook Extracts 1869 to 1871

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Held at North Yorkshire Record Office at Northallerton

Catalogue Reference S?BNL (CE)

Masters

Page 1 Mr Battersby from 1869 to December 1872

Page 121 John Preston January 1873 to 14^th April 1873

Page 125 George Hunter April 1873 to 8^th October 1875

Page 151 Benj. W Oddy October 1875 to 20^th December 1877

Page 178 James L Laycock January 1878 to 20^th December 1878

Page 191 Thomas Hardwick January 1879

Assisted by Mrs JF Hardwick

Page 353 Ann Helena Hardwick July 1888 see 358 12^th January 1889

Page 366 John Edmondson 1^st July 1889

Page 389 David J Irving 16^th February 1891

1869

21^st September Had to punish John Ireland for brutal conduct.

5^th October Had to punish William Williams for perfect idleness.

28^th October Had to punish BJ Carter for playing truant.

9^th Novenber Numbers reduced in consequence of the outbreak of Scarletina.

10^th November 3 fresh cases recorded this morning.

13 November Two more deaths have taken place making it four from amongst our scholars.

23^rd November Attendance this morning reduced to 56 and there has been another death of a scholar.

1^st December Had to punish WH Emmott for bad conduct.

9^th December School was visited by a number of ladies including Mrs Teale.

27^th December Whole families of children have been withdrawn through sickness and others through fear.

1870

3^rd January The fever has now assumed a milder form but many weeks must elapse before we can hope to get back our scholars.

3^rd February Punished William Williams for fighting.

1^st March The fever has almost disappeared but has left many of the children very weak and susceptible to catching colds.

18^th March Moved WH Beaumont from 3^rd class to 2^nd class.

22^nd March Had to punish WD Thompson for continuous untidiness.

6^th April Several of the infants have fallen sick of a disease generally styled “Chicken pox.”

10^th May Holiday in consequence of the marriage of Miss Teale.

19^th May Had to punish T Maudsley and John Balderstone for bad conduct.

30^th June Revd E Sherlock attended and distributed the first annual prizes. Miss M Parker and John Bradley took over the two first prizes.

3^rd August Closed this afternoon and took the children to High Bentham to see a menagerie of wild beasts.

17^th August Had to punish WH Beaumont for swearing.

13^th October Had to punish JW Thompson and John Thomas Smith for fouling boy’s closet.

26^th October Had to punish William Leeming for swearing.

22^nd December Today we were awarded for the second time. Mrs Teale’s Annual prizes for sewing MJ Balderstone took the first prize for a shirt and Isabella Cumberland 1^st for button holes. ME Porteus for darning, AA Nowell 1^st for shirt sleeves. Ruth Nowell for patching. Chemese 1^st Margt Wilson. Knitting 1^st E Hoskinson. Pocket handkerchief 1^st Ann Ward.

1871

11^th January Examined whole school in mental arithmetic. WH Battersby and Isabella Cumberland most proficient.

17^th January Had to punish W Leeming and John Foster for wading into the stream.

20^th January Lesson on dictation. Girls most proficient. W Emmott had 25 mistakes.

6^th March Examined upper class in reading, dictation and arithmetic. William Emmott and AA Nowell & Clara Jane Parker had no mistakes.

4^th April Punished W Thompson for inattention.

5^th April Examined upper class in arithmetic on slates from dictation. MH Battersby and ME Dixon and Jane Foster had no mistakes.

28^th April Had to punish E Hodgson and William Beaumont for careless writing.

12^th May Had to punish John Shiers for careless writing.

16^th May Had to punish James Balderstone for lying.

19^th May Had to punish E Hodgson for indecent conduct.

2^nd June Several of the older boys away washing sheep.

7^th June Had to punish James Balderstone for bad conduct.

12^th June The number of the infants is small in consequence of the boys being attacked with scarlet fever.

13^th June Had to punish James Green for theft.

21^st June Had to punish W Thompson and William Williams for idleness.

22^nd June Bentham Cattle Fair, attendance low in consequence.

23^rd June Gave holiday for High Bentham School Feast.

26^th June Attendance small in consequence of sickness and the hay harvest.

26^th July Had to punish James Green for misconduct.

2^nd August Had to punish JT Smith for indolence.

8^th August Punished JT Hoskinson for swearing.

18^th August Punished G Horrocks for idleness to lessons.

19^th September had to punish William Shiers for inattention.

28^th September Had to punish J Hall, W Bradley, William Thompson and William Shiers for ill treating Thomas Worthington.

11^th October Had to punish William Beaumont for telling an intruth.

30^th October Had to punish John Shiers and William Green for fighting.

13^th November Mrs Fox’s children have been withdrawn to escape paying the fire money.

7^th December Had to punish W Green and D Parkinson for idling over lessons.

20^th December Today Mrs Teale of the Ridding gave her 3^rd Annual Prizes to the girls for needlework and knitting. There were about 15 prizes in all and the highest a beautiful workbox worth about 18/- was awarded to Margaret Wilson. The boys Christmas prizes were awarded by Revd E Sherlock.

1^st Prizes 2^nd Prizes

RJ Carter William Emmott

John Bradley Alexander Burrow

JP Smith Thos. Howell

John Emmott William Leeming

E Thos Harling Thos. Clarke

Washburn Valley takes at last to Football

Leave a comment 23rd January 2020 Stan Merridew

Yorkshire Post 13^th Nov 1948

For as long as anyone can recall most of the young men from the Washburn Valley have spent their Saturday afternoons visiting shops and cinemas in Harrogate and Otley. Tomorrow eleven of them will come together to play in a football match – probably the first ever staged in this valley of the reservoirs.

They will wear black and white jerseys because some of the team thought they were the colour of Arsenal. After the match they will drink tea made on a stove in the Parochial Hall with water carried two hundred yards from the Post Office.

There are 24 men and boys in the football club but there were fewer than 24 names on the list that were sent to the selectors. That was because there is a ploughing match at Kettlesing tomorrow. Some of those hoping to play football will be ploughing instead. The ploughing match will go on for five Saturdays. The football team wonder how long they will be able to carry on if ploughing continues to attract players away.

This is the team for the first match against Pool Reserves:

B Newbould (joiner) A Armitage (joiner) L Spence (farmer) C Lancaster (reservoir worker) J H Noble (head forester & captain) F Beecroft (farmer) R M—? (ex German POW & farm worker) E Spence (mason’s labourer) W Ellison (schoolboy) J Marsland (driver) K Boyce (electrician).

Wilson Ellison is the youngest player – 15 and Jock Noble is the eldest – “into his thirties.” Mr Armitage, husband of the Postmistress, said “I played rugby for 10 years when I lived at Horsforth but the last time I played football was two years ago in Burma.” Twenty five year old Eric Spence said, “Apart from the war, I have always in the valley. I was 18 when I went into the Army. Up to then I had never played in a football match and never seen one. I had heard a few broadcasts.” The Vicar of Fewston, Rev. H Clegg, started the club, has received a letter from P.C. John W Heley of Halifax Borough Police who was formerly Fewston’s policeman, he sent them this message: “It is an amazing achievement. Aston Villa were formed under a street lamp, anything can happen.”

No one can estimate what size the crowd will be. If everyone in Fewston, Timble, Blubberhouses and Norwood (which covers 43 sq miles) came along the result could only be 470 spectators.

Otley Street Party June 1953

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**Ilkley Road**

**Back Row: W Forest, Mrs Leverett, Mrs Wood, Mrs Mawson, Mrs Mitchell, Mrs Butcher, Miss Freeman, Mrs Towers, Mrs Rollinson, Mrs Richardson, ?**
**Seated: Miss trenham, Mrs Casling with Stephen, Mrs Scaife, Mrs Robinson, Mrs Copsey with Hilary, Mrs Lee, A Earnshaw**
**Front: Miss Freeman, Mrs Lowe, Mrs Gardener, Mrs Rayner**

Oxenhope Horkinstone School Logbook Extracts 1879 to 1881

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Held at Keighley Local Studies Library

1879

4^th August Horkinstone School was opened this morning for infants and children of the first standard. The following gentlemen of the Haworth School Board were present, Messrs Redman, Kershaw, Bland and Greenwood. There were 46 attendances.

8^th August Admitted no more children during the week: find them punctual and obedient but some of them are very backward.

12^th August Admitted Maranda Stansfield and Herbert Feather.

18^th August Admitted John Greenwood, Matilda Rushworth and arah Ann Sunderland.

20^th August Admitted Mary Ellen U Holmes.

25^th August Admitted Anne Pickles, Jane Hey, Emma Hardacre and Nancy Rawson.

26^th August Admitted Mariane Whitaker and Susey Hannah Booth.

1^st September Admitted Ada Sunderland.

8^th September Admitted Richard B Sunderland.25^th

10^th October John Sutcliffe and John Greenwood only attend school in the afternoon, generally make 4 attendances in the week.

20^th October Miss Sarah Jane Adcock commenced duties this morning.

31^st October Albert Whitaker left school yesterday afternoon to be passed as half-timer.

21^st November Admitted William Cooke.

28^th November Removed George Feather from infant class today, having found out he was over seven years of age.

8^th December Admitted Elizabeth Standish and William Stephenson.

1880

23^rd January Admitted Mary Wharfe. Sent John Uttley and Mary Ellen Holmes home to bring their school pence on Wednesday morning, did not return until the following day.

30^th January Admitted Arthur Steed.

6^th February Admitted Lily Cairns.

25^th March Elizabeth Standish left, gone full-time.

13^th April Admitted Mary Rebecca Bolton.

20^th April Admitted Etna and Julia Hey.

26^th April Admitted Robert Reeve.

2^nd May Admitted Samuel Drake.

7^th May Having had charge of this school since 4^th August, this day close my connection with it. Susan Walker Dallas.

10^th May I, Wm Raper, commenced duty in this school. Admitted 19 in the morning and 16 in the afternoon.

29^th June Frank Storey Pighills came as a monitor this morning.

9^th August Admitted Robina Wright.

28^th September Admitted Asa Proctor.

1881

11^th March Examined the infants they read and write pretty well but some are poor at arithmetic. Three of them, Emma Hardaker, Sarah Normington and Joseph Sunderland are equal to any in Standard 1.

21^st March Admitted Mary Anne Normington.

18^th April Admitted Harry Bancroft.

26^th April Admitted Samuel Rushton.

13^th May Richard and Joseph Sunderland having the measles, I ordered their two sisters and brother not to come to school until they were better.

16^th May Admitted three children today, Asa Normington, Pharoah Dawson and Alice Normington.

23^rd May Admitted Alice Naylor.

20^th June Admitted Millie Booth and George Smith.

27^th June Admitted Mary Ellen Crabtree and Mary Hannah Uttley.

5^th July Frank Pighills has a habit of coming to school late every morning. I have spoken to him about it several times but he appears to take no notice whatever.

12^th July William, Fanny and Joseph Henry Uttley away from school this week as their mother has no money with which to pay their school pence.

14^th December Emma Proctor has left to go to Denholme mill and school.

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