Cononley Grocers/Shopkeepers

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From the Hodgson Collection held at Skipton Local Studied Library

John HOGARTH – listed in White’s directory 1838 as one of two shopkeepers in Cononley, (the other one was Thomas LAYCOCK).   In Pigot’s Directory 1841, he is listed along with 10 others as Grocer and Dealer in Sundries.  In White’s Directory 1854 he is again listed with 10 others, only two of them are the same as the 1841 list.

William & Ellen AYRTON – William Ayrton is first listed in Pigot’s Directory 1841 as a Grocer and Dealer in Sundries.  He is listed in Slater’s directory of 1849 and in White’s 1854.  In Slater’s 1855 Directory he is listed twice under the headings Grocer and as Linen & Woollen Draper.   William Ayrton died in 1862 and was buried at Kildwick on 4th March aged 63 years.  The business was carried on after his death by his widow Ellen who is listed in the 1867 and 1872 editions of Kelly’s Post Office Directory.  Ellen Ayrton was buried with her husband at Kildwick 4th January 1875.  Their shop was at what is now 94 Main Street.  William Ayrton was born at Marsden, Lancs and his wife at Colne.

Daniel CARPENTER  – Listed in Pigot’s Directory of 1841 as Grocer – Cononley.    The 1841  Census records him as residing in King Street Cononley, Shopkeeper.  Slater’s directory of 1849 does not list him.  He died in July 1852 and was buried at Kildwick on 9th July aged 84 years.

Richard LANE – Listed in Pigot’s directory of 1841 as Grocer – Cononley.  No trace can be found of a person of this name in the 1841 Census for Cononley or in Kildwick Parish Church.

Thomas PEEL – Listed in Pigot’s Directory of 1841 and Slater’s Directory of 1849 as Grocer & Dealer- Cononley.  He is recorded in the 1841 Census “Independent”, possibly in what is now known as Gordon House.  In the 1851 Census he is recorded as a widower aged 77 “Proprietor of houses”, i.e. houses in Gordon Terrace formerly known as “Peels Fold”.  In neither of the Census is mention made of his trading as a Grocer although the “Bide” door of this house along the passageway to Gordon Terrace may have possibly been a shop.  Thomas Peel died aged 80 and was buried at Kildwick 29th March 1854.  In the baptism of his children he is described as Weaver later as Manufacturer.   In the above 1841 & 1849 directories he also has an entry as “Stuff Manufacturer – Cononley”.

Otley Methodist Sunday School Register of Teachers 1933

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Superintendent   Mr GE Aldersley                       Mr LS Lucas        

Asst Mr RJ Oliver

Secretary             Mr Wilfred Skipper

                               Mr Cyril Kelley

                               Mr Reg Hey

Boys Teachers

Senior Boys        Mr E Johnson                     Mr Stafford Lucas

Class 1                   Mr WT Good                      Mr Arthur Storey

Class 2                   Mr H Edwards                    Mr Henry Edwards

Class 3                   Mr HB Saunders               Mr Donald Good

Class 4                   Mr A Gray                           Mr Arthur Wilson

Class 5                   Mr Wilfred Harrison

Class 6                   Mr HA Mackie                   Mr Alan Wright

Class 7                   Mr A Brooks                      

Class 8                   Mr N Mainprize                Mr Eddie Atkinson

Mr H Bradford

Girls Teachers

Senior Girls         Miss Turnbull                     Mrs Glanville

Class 1                   Mrs Oliver                           Miss Rhodes

Class 2                   Miss SA Vickers                  Miss Harrison

Class 3                   Mrs Constance                  Miss Oliver

Class 4                   Miss Bankcroft                   Miss Mountain 

Class 5                   Miss A Lawson                  Miss E Lawson

Class 6                   Miss G Woolley                 Miss M Dykes

Class 7                   Miss W Wood                   Miss L Holgate                                    

Class 8                   Miss E Hannam                 Miss D Hopcraft

Class 9                   Miss A Fletcher                 Miss E Spence

Class 10                Miss Jessie Holgate         Miss E Wood

Accompanist      Miss Lawson

Accompanist      Miss Bartle

Librarian             Mr W Aldersley                 Mr F Butterfield

Registrar              Mr H Jackson                    

Registrar              Mr J Holgate          

It appears there were teachers for morning and afternoon classes but the register does not differentiate            

Cononley School 1927

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From the Hodgson Collection at Skipton Local Studies LIbrary
MIss Worsley with her class

Back row: Dick Barritt, Leslie Thompson, Eric Buckley, Eric Perry, Jim Clark, Dennis Rawson.

2nd row: Frank Stansfield, Peggy Lambert, Elsie Tatham, Winnie Bingham, Doris Nixon, Mary Wright, Hagar Webster, Jack Throup, Frank Hudson.

3rd row seated on a bench: Margaret Smith, Annie Rawson, Rene Clark, Eric Haigh, Doris Pitt, Alice Broughton, (1st name not recorded) Smith, Mary Snowden, Jennie Hey, Ethel Wright, Ruth Armitstead, Cedric Throup.

Front row: Cyril Lee, Jim Hurtley, Jack Thompson, Harry Tatham, Jim Throup.