Conisbrough
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Rural Councillor Mrs Ellen Tait
Can anyone help with dating an article from the "Sunday Dispatch" re Mrs Ellen Tait. She was a rural councillor and lived in a council house in Edlington. She was a remarkable lady and I would appreciate help with my research.
A memory of Edlington contributed by Hilary Sowerby
Hooton Roberts
I was born a Willertt at 5 Kilnhurst Rd in 1940. I remember the noise of German fighters going to bomb Sheffield and many German or Italian prisoners marching from Kilnhurst to the camp at Ravenfield. They used to throw us tins containing sweets and we used these tins when playing hopscotch. We had no electricity in the house which is very different now. I wonder whether the cellar still floods! We had gas downstairs and candles upstairs, no curtains and it was always very cold. The windows would be covered with thick ice in the morning. When electricity finally came to the village, we were too poor to pay the connection charge. We lived with my grandfather William Willert who ...read more here
A memory of Hooton Roberts contributed by Patricia Stirk
EARL OF STRAFFORD OPENS 1984
It's nearly 25 years since the Earl of Strafford hotel opened in Hooton Roberts. I wrote an M.A. dissertation on Thomas Wentworth, the First Earl of Strafford after whom the pub is named, so I was naturally very interested.
I was shown around the building and was amazed to see runnels in the basement floor which were for the blood from beasts slaughtered on the premises in the old days. I also heard about Anne Kent who is supposed to haunt the place after an unhappy love affair long ago. I was so intrigued, I wrote a pamphlet about the hotel.
I often go jogging through Hooton Roberts and I have developed a real affection for ...read more here
A memory of Hooton Roberts contributed by john tarttelin
Conisborough Castle
I lived in Rawmish, and as a special treat my dad's mate Tony Williams got his mate the caretaker to let me have my own personal look roun't castle. My dad used to work at the pit offices in Denaby. When I used to go and see my dad in't olidays I'd go train spotting to the station and then ride home making sure I went via the castle.
A memory of Sprotbrough contributed by steve wright
Extracts From Conisbrough & South Yorkshire books
This view no longer exists. When the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Canal was modernised in the early 1980s, several locks were re-sited and enlarged, and this was one of them. Note the English heritage-run Conisborough Castle in the background.
An extract from from"Canals and Waterways".
This great fortress was built by Hamelin Plantagenet, half-brother of Henry II. The round keep is thought to be the first of its type to be built in England; it was designed to be difficult to mine and resistant to attack with a battering ram. The keep is supported by six wedge-shaped buttresses which rise higher than the keep to form turrets. Though the buttresses served no useful purpose in propping up the keep, they did fulfil certain functions. One contained two cisterns for water drawn from a well beneath the keep; another housed an oven; yet another contained an oratory, and another a pigeon loft.
An extract from from"English Castles".
It is well worth the effort to climb up these rocks: you’re on top of the world, if a little weary and overheated. Luckily, just below refreshments are to hand at the Cow and Calf Inn, formerly known as the Highfield.
An extract from from"Ilkley Town and City Memories".
In this photograph you can see the top of the Semon Convalescent Home just beyond the reservoir. A fair walk westwards then brings you to the Swastika Stone, which is unique in this country. Other examples have been found in Tossene in Sweden and Mycenae in Greece and all depict fertility and religious symbols. The council placed the iron railing around the site in 1913.
An extract from from"Ilkley Town and City Memories".
Up above the Cow and Calf rocks is more evidence of quarrying, but in this photograph the heather softens the scene for the Edwardian picnickers taking in the valley view, top right.
An extract from from"Ilkley Town and City Memories".