Cononley Folk 2

The Cooper family from Shady Grove Farm, photographed on 1898

Left to right:  Alfred (1864-1928), Willie (1896-1947), John Edgar (1893-1953)

Mary (1863-1933), Lillian (1897-1967), Arthur (1895-1869)

Willie later farmed at West Marton, was the father Olive Hodgson (nee Cooper), wife of Trevor Hodgson.

From the Hodgson Collection at Skipton Local Studies Library

Cononley Folk 1

The four people left to right are:

Jack Whitaker, died 26th January 1915 aged 79.

Martha Dean (nee Hogarth) died 26th January 1940 aged 84

Thomas Dean, husband of Martha, farmer of Gibside, (son of Jonathan Dean and his wife Jane nee Cooper) died 11th February 1929 aged 74.

Ethel Dean, (daughter of Jonathan and Jane) married George Stirk, died 2nd January 1983 aged 94.

From the Hodgson Collection at Skipton Local Studies Library

Cononley Aireside Mill

Left to right back row: Kathleen Buckley, Annie Lee, Alice Nutter, Sally Nutter, Ena Cummins, Wilfred Whittaker, Peggy Beck, Sidney Kirk, Tommy Clark, Tom Millward, Edith Naylor, not recorded, Annie Hirst.

Front Row: not recorded, George Margate, Billie Stell (whose family owned the mill) not recorded, Carrie Clark,

From the Hodgson Collection at Skipton Local Studies Library

Cononley School 1907/08

Cononley National School around 1907/1908 just prior to the closure of the church school.

Back row left to right: Alan Holmes, Fred Lee, Alfred Thompson, Leonard Marsden, Willie Cooper, Bob Walker, Tom Hurtley, not recorded, George Rushworth, John Holdsworth (headmaster),

Centre row left to right: Elsie Buckley, Audrey Metcalfe, Dorothy Barker, Jessie Parkinson, Grace Wetherall, Hilda Midgley, Hilda Speak, Lily Whitaker, Lillian Cooper,  Lily Town, Alice Holdsworth,

Front row left to right: Edna Metcalfe, Elsie Hey, Jennie Bird, Susan Fielding, Rebecca Rushworth, Lizzie Firth, Mary Barrett, Winnie Beech,

From the Hodgson Collection at Skipton Local Studies Library