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Relive the hits: The Bluebells Live at Otley Courthouse, December 7th
Pioneering Victorians who owned mills in Yeadon
May 14, 2021 · The society says: “He gave a lecture in Yeadon Wesleyan Chapel in July 1868; his ideas were dismissed by engineers but he persisted. “He built a four-storey block with no floors but platforms, this was to access an enormous wheel which would have hollow ‘S’ shaped spokes filled with iron balls which supposedly moved when the wheel turned and the whole apparatus would continue to move ...
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Why the stars came out to meet Wharfedale's Clive and his tourists
Feb 18, 2008 · It started as a boyhood obsession in the 1940s. Having worked backstage in theatre in both Halifax and London, he had already met many British celebrities, including Morecambe and Wise, Frankie Vaughan, Max Bygraves and Tommy Cooper.
Prejudiced mill owner drove his workers into the unions
Oct 18, 2007 · Samuel Cunliffe Lister, the First Baron Masham, is celebrated in Bradford as a former industrial giant and a great benefactor to the city. There is a statue of him in Lister Park, a green space which he kindly donated to the city, but arguably his greatest monument is the Italianate splendour of the towering chimney of Lister's Mill, Manningham, which still dominates the city skyline more than ...
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Review: Yorkshire Day recital by Darius Battiwalla, Leeds Town Hall, Saturday, August 1, 2020 First post-lockdown concert live from Leeds Town Hall - but with no audience
Road plan delay holds up Otley Rugby Club’s move
Feb 3, 2020 · Otley RUFC was hoping to move to a new site on Pool Road, where it intends to create some top-class new sporting facilities, by July, 2021. The club had also hoped that the team would play their home matches next season at Bramhope-based West Park Leeds RUFC, while their new clubhouse and pitches were being built.
Images of Otley Station and its long-abandoned railway
Feb 4, 2022 · Otley Museum volunteer David Clegg looks back on the line's history and demise. He said: "The railway through Otley had been in existence for 100 years from the first train arriving from Leeds via Arthington on 1st February 1865 to the last timetabled train departing to Ilkley on 20th March 1965.