Aireborough Grammar School – Cross Country Run 1960
Yeadon East View United
Guiseley AFC 1953
Back, left to right – William Cook secretary, Jack Van Gelovan, W Dockray, E Hawthorne, P North, Harold Hurford, L Moseley president, J Kilvington treasurer.
Front, left to right – Ron Claughton, Jim Claughton, A Simpson, W Fawcett, C Dawson. Harold Hurford played for Guiseley a AFC for 21 years, 15 as captain. He also represented the West Riding county in 1947, 1948, 1950 and 1952.
Names from the Aireborough Historical Society Website
Ghyll Royd School Football Team 1931
Tosside
By Julia Wood
Tosside or Tosset, as it was also known as, was a tiny hamlet on the banks of Tosside Beck which ran in the valley bottom half a mile down the hill from where the centre of the village is now located. It comprised of a few houses, a shop and a blacksmith’s and surrounding farms. It would be quite isolated being in the Pennines and away from major thoroughfares.
Over the years the village moved up to its present position around a water fountain which marks the new boundary between Yorkshire and Lancashire.
There is a pub called The Dog and Partridge and St Bartholomew’s Church which has also been known as Houghton Chapel. Down the road to the west of the village was Mount Sion Independent Chapel which was also known as Sandy Syke Chapel. This is now closed.
The village is part of the parish of Gisburn.
Deposited Registers (Borthwick Institute of Historical Research at York University.)
Parish Registers
- Baptisms: 1769-1917
- Marriages: 1861-1987
- Burials: 1769-1813
Bishop’s Transcripts:
- 1749-1753*, 1774*, 1775*, 1776-1786, 1788-1815, 1817-1836
* With Gisburn
IGI Coverage:
- C 1749-1776
Methodists & Methodism Washburn Valley – Castley to Norwood Bottom
By Stanley Merridew
The lower part of the valley was part of the Otley Circuit whose records are housed at Leeds Archives.
Castley
Isaac Atkinson is credited with starting Methodism in Castley around 1820, although a record of a chapel can only be gleaned from the name Chapel Hill Lane. He was a tenant of Castley Hall farm and Castley Manor Farm. I understand Chapel Hill Lane was diverted when the railway came, so possibly the chapel was pulled down at the time. In 1851 the chapel census was signed by John Adamson.
Read MoreYeadon Queen Street Methodist Church Drama Group 1947
In costume for a production are, at the back from left to right :
Fred Creyke, Rufus Dennison, Tom Dennison, Lena Wright, Jack Wilkes,
Isobel Brown, Alfred Hudson, Elsie Blackwell, Geoffrey Banks.
Front left to right : Walter Lupton, Kathleen Creyke, Wynne Cooper,
Audrey Dobson, Sally Blaymires, Cintra Beaumont, Sheila Cariss.
Seated on floor : Barbara Cariss and Margaret Bennett
Taken from the Aireborough Historical Society collection
Prince Henry’s Grammar School Otley
The Otliensian
Journal of Prince Henry’s Grammar School
Summer Term 1955
CHESS CLUB
Junior Section Champion P Bradley (1X) Runner up N D Boyd (2x)
Senior Section Champion E P Gambles (5x) Runner up D Tomlinson (5)
CROSS COUNTRY Senior winner M Lowe (Fx) Junr winner A Chapman (D)
CRICKET TEAM G F Moxon, B Atkinson, K Butterill, R J Wilson, J C R Dyckoff, J F Dawson, C Burrow, R Cliffe, M Oddie, D Wilkinson, B Dobson, M Rhodes, R Baxter, T Harrison, S Walker
TENNIS TEAM P Wigglesworth, Margaret Barrett, Joan Spenceley, Jane Leech, Ann Rhodes, Margaret Brown
ROUNDERS TEAM L Hellewell, V Finch, R Atkinson, C Brown, A Leeming, R Mortimer, J Hartridge, C Garside, P Normington, J Greenwood, K Greenwood, P Bennison, B Hutchinson
ARTICLES & POEMS
COMMENDED 5X Josephine Symes, 4x Janet Bartle, Kathryn Swann,
3x Josephine Hartridge, Sandra Kellet, Gillian Rawling,
3a Pamela Robinson, 3b D Girt, Linda Hardisty
2x N Boyd, G F Clark, N Spencer, Evelyn Friend,
Diane Hayes,
1x P Bradley, K Lee, Linda Dawson, Carol Hurley, Pauline Marshall, Anna Smith, Joan Smith
Baildon Carnival Programme 1931
NAH BAILDON – WHAT ABAHT IT?
WHAT ABAHT WHAT? Well yeh see it’s like this, it’s nobbut fair at we sud all dew wer whack fer t’hospitals. If yeh nobbut think what wonderful places they are, an hah necessary they are, more ner ivver I theas days, an t’good as they dew, an hah if ye happen to be one o’ them at falls bi t’wayside, yeh can hev best ov attention an’ treatment, by best doctors an physicians an lewkt after by t’nearest approach tuv angels at I’ve ivver seen it sudn’t be necessary to ass, “What abaht it?”. But it is cos thas soa monny things ter worry abaht, sich as bad trade etc., at weht apt ter ferget them ats sick an sufferin.
Have bin in a few o theas places, net fer treatment ahm pleased ta say, an they really are wonderful. It ommos maks yeh wish summat wod appen yeh, nut serious mind yeh.
What abaht it if yeh tain wi a pain under yeh pinny an t’doctor lewks at yeh an sez summat abaht operation?
What abaht it if yeh try an stop a motor, an appen ta brek a leg ora arm?
What abaht it if ye happen tqa av an accident at wark ir onny eh yer bahns falls an lames thersen?
Wehre appen alreeet yet but wi nivver naw what mud appen.
Nah Baildon hez a varry gud repitashun for elpin disarvin carses. Wi raised ower £4000 for comforts for t’lads when they were away feightin and I naw at money a time they gat a parcel jus when they wor feelin dahnhearted an it wer worth a lot more to them ner it cost us. Wehve as nice a War memorial as ther is onnywhear.
Have eard fowk say at us Baildoners wor a varry clannish lot, bit its fair cappin hah keen they are to get here, even sum o Bradford’s big pots. They naw whear there nice livin an low rates. I say let em all come, we can mek use on em, an theyre allreyt when yeh get tan aw em.
There’s tribes all ower. Bubblin Well, Owd Bills, Ghyll Steppers, Abode ov luv, Early Stone an as money more as we can get. Then thers two grand processions wi all t’Cahncillors an t’Aldermen. Dancing, |Illuminations, sheep Dog Trials, Flahr Show at t’Bull. All meks o games an sideshows.
What we want moast is good weather an ah think somehah that it’ll be allreyt as they’ve hed ivver so money meetins up at “Parliament Harse” an I unnerstand at Cahncillor Halliday’s ivverything in order, so wi can leave it at that, cos if they can’t sattle it, it can’t be settled that’s all. They’re widening Tahn Git for us, an they tell me at wer bahn to hev a reyt boulevard.
Yeh naw at they were reyt unfortunate it Shipla wi their hospital doo, so let’s see if we can’t dew a bit extra ta mak up for it. Nah if ye ats nobbut little gies as much as yer can. Ye ats bit better off gies more and ye hats weel off just opens aht, nawin at whatever we dew it’s elpin sum sumbdy ats in a war hoil ner wersen, we sall come aht allreyt.
Nah Baildon – What abaht it?
Methodists & Methodism Pool in Wharfedale & Bramhope
Pool in Wharfedale
The first mention of the village in Methodist records is 1794 when the village was included in the Otley Circuit. However, the first licensed preaching place was granted in 1796 in a dwelling of James Thompson. The Thompson surname occurs within the history of the chapel for several decades. The application was signed by Thomas Cooper, James Davison, William Pilling, Joseph Nicholls and Ambrose Heath. It is believed the property was in Chapel Row.
By 1814 Robert Thornber was the leader of a small group. In 1839 land in Chapel Row was sold by Michael Nicholson, papermaker of Pool Mills, to 15 trustees who included three local men, namely: Thomas Hallis, papermaker, Thomas Pullein, labourer and William Thompson, cordwainer. The latter was still involved in 1851 when he signed the Census of Religious Worship. The present chapel was built in 1909 on land given by the Atkinson family.
Joseph Rhodes Dunwell , born at Pool, became a Wesleyan Minister in 1834 and was one of the early missionaries posted to Ghana , where he died of malaria the following year. His James Dunwell (1781-1856), was a local carrier and the family lived at Pool Farm Cottage. Joseph is buried in Poole St Wilfrid’s churchyard and a plaque to his memory is displayed in the Methodist chapel.
When the Wesleyan Historic Role was taken between 1899 and 1909 the following names appear with addresses as Pool: Hebden, Myers, Pullein, Roundell, Studson, Whiteley.
A Sunday School register dated 1891-1903 is held at Leeds Archives.
Bramhope
The village appears on the Leeds circuit Plan for 1777 and by 1794 was in the Otley Circuit. The first licensed preaching was the schoolhouse of John Popplewell. The application for the licence was signed by John Walker, John Popplewell and John Driver.
The cause was possibly active before this date as Beatrice Robinson of Bramhope Mill married John Ritchie of Otley who was very prominent in the Methodist movement. Their daughter Elizabeth Ritchie along with her brother John Ritchie junior were close followers of John Wesley and he stayed with them on his journeys to Otley.
A barn on Church Hill was used for meetings owned by Michael Barrand. He along with the Hobson and Walker families, created the first chapel on Eastgate in 1838. The congregation was swelled firstly by the families associated with the building of the Bramhope tunnel was being built the and later by the influx of wealthier families moving out of Leeds. This resulted in the building of the present large chapel opened in 1896.
According to W F Seals, “Methodism in the Otley Circuit 1744-1974” the following families were involved in the Methodist movement within the village:
Boyington, Burnley, Cawtheray, Denison, Hall, Miller, Moore, Myers and Pickard.
Unfortunately, the records held at Leeds Archives do not commence until 1938, perhaps more material may be held at the church.