The Recent History of Burley in Wharfedale, Burley Woodhead, Stead & Burley Moor
The aim of this section of the Burley Archive website is put together a more recent history of Burley district.
A history that is in living memory of some of its inhabitants & to enable people of today to make connections with their past.
A history that is in living memory of some of its inhabitants & to enable people of today to make connections with their past.
As people add their contributions - family histories etc., to the story it will be arranged into sub-sections.
To add your own details, particularly photos to the story please contact the webmaster.
Anything used is captioned with what it shows & the copyright holder, plus an active link to a website, if the contributor has one.
To add your own details, particularly photos to the story please contact the webmaster.
Anything used is captioned with what it shows & the copyright holder, plus an active link to a website, if the contributor has one.
What do people remember of the following:
The Methodist Chapel?
The shops - where were they, who owned them & what did they sell? The garden centre? The primary school? The Green Lane "by-pass"? Mary Chorley nee Kimber & Harry Sutton Chorley at Moorview Cottages? Moorville / Moor House & Grounds
The Youth Hostel?
Stead
The Mount - now Audley Clevedon Retirement Village
The Roman Road - Ilkley to Tadcaster designated as 72b? The Farms? Stead Hall? |
The transition from being county council owned with fee paying patients to being part of the NHS, the different departments, the theatre etc.?
The hospital's later closure and transformation into Scalebor Park Housing Estate?
From steam to diesel to electric?
The threatened closure of the Wharfedale line?
The demolition of the station buildings? Rail electrification & removal of the signal box? The ripping up of the goods yard & the building of the Robins housing estate? Ownership History?
Woofa Bank? Cup & Ring Stones? Sun Lane Nature Reserve
Former rubbish tip for the area? It closed in 1975. Officially opened as a "Local Nature Reserve" in 2011. |
Burley in Wharfedale A65 bypass
History - first iteration 1936!
More recent reasons for it - congestion & chaos on Main Street, Otley & Bradford Roads, and Coutances Way?
The debate about the route?
Its construction & opening in 1995?
River Wharfe - ownership & use?
Wharfeside? Greenholme Farm - from farming to housing. The closure of Greenholme Mills?
The auction & break up of the Greenholme Estate? The Burley Hydro? Walton House - now Greystone Manor & the home of Ghyll Royd School? What of the Shops & Business Premises that have been & gone?
Anyone remember Fred Midgley's Butchers or Martins Bank on Main Street?
What would qualify for future "this day in history" for Burley in Wharfedale, Burley Woodhead, Stead or Burley Moor?
Your ideas please, contact the webmaster. |
What of Past Events?
The various Brass Bands that were formed in Burley & the surrounding district & competed all over the UK? Burley in Wharfedale Women's Cricket Team set up by Burley in Wharfedale Cricket Club - the "Greenholme Girls" in the 1930s? Burley in Wharfedale Football up to the 1940s? Anybody have any family connections to these Burley Grove United players (from the 1930/31 season)?: W. Woodhead, B. Mann, E. Browne, H. Driver, D. Hardisty, W. Grange; J. Lupton, N. Wilkinson, R. Cliffe, Frank Miller, C. Shepherd and J. Barrett. Please contact us if you have. |
Queen's Coronation on 2nd June 1953? How was it celebrated in Burley? The townsfolk selected Sylvia Ripley as Rose Queen & paraded through Burley in Wharfedale. Did anything else happen?
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