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Rough Stones Farm
This photo is of Rough Stones Farm, Walsden which in 1960 was owned by my grandfather and is still in the family.
A memory of Walsden contributed by Robert Hudson
Croft Farm
My memory is a life time! I first came to Croft Farm, just above Lumbutts when I was 18 months old. My dear, dear Aunty Kath and Uncle Geoff lived there then. She was my mother's, sister's, sister-in law - so absolutely no blood relation to me! But both Aunty Kath and Uncle Geoff turned out to be better than my own parents to me. Oh! don't get me wrong, mum and dad were good, but dad died when I was 13, and mum never recovered. Aunty Kath and Uncle Geoff picked up where they left off. He gave me away when I got married.
There are far, far too many memories for me to write down here. I spent ...read more here
A memory of Lumbutts contributed by Catherine Cowperthwaite
I lived here
This was the first home I ever knew and remains, to this day, the one I hold as the true definition of 'home'. Waterloo House was where I was brought as a newborn in June 1974, and where I lived so happily until 1980 when we were, sadly, forced to sell up and leave. I have countless memories, from toboganning down the fields in the deepest snow ever (which sometimes blocked the doors and entirely covered the downstairs windows - my dad having to climb out of the upstaris to dig us free) to standing in the sunshine waiting for my daddy to return from work over the crest of the hill along the road.
I believe the house to ...read more here
A memory of Heptonstall contributed by Claire O'Brien
The Railway Runs by their Doorstep
41 years of their 50 years of married life, Mr & Mrs Joshua Turner of 1 Station Cottages, Hebden Bridge had more than 200 trains a day passing by their doorstep, the trains never caused them any trouble. Their home was just below the platform of Hebden Bridge Station. Mr & Mrs Turner were natives of Halifax. They had 13 children. Two of their daughters served in the Womens Land Army.
A memory of Hebden Bridge contributed by Mary Whiting
Extracts From Cornholme & West Yorkshire books
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".
This young man looks out from between these famous rocks towards the magnificent estate of Denton Park.
An extract from from"Ilkley Town and City Memories".
Behind the Cow and Calf rocks is this desolate valley from where most of the stone to build the town was quarried. Hangingstone Quarry was the site of a huge enterprise that saw the destruction of the giant Bull Rock. The massive rocks were taken down Cowpasture Road to stone breaking yards around Ash Grove.
An extract from from"Ilkley Town and City Memories".