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2:43pm Friday 3rd July 2009
1884 At an Ilkley Local Board meeting, there was a motion to rescind a resolution put forward by Doctor Little to apply to the county authorities to widen Ilkley bridge. Mr Gaunt said that the bridge had lasted many years, there had been no-one killed, and although an accident had occurred a short time ago, he believed it was in a great measure due to the carelessness of a carter.
10:40am Friday 26th June 2009
Stories from the archives of the Ilkley Gazette
9:18am Thursday 18th June 2009
1884 Slowly but surely the engineers are nearing Ilkley in their final survey of the route for the new railway line from Skipton. The Duke’s men are clearing timber from the track in Lob’s Wood, Addingham has been measured off and left, and after rising the ascent at Cockden, the surveyors have Ilkley well in sight. More than two-thirds of the survey is completed.
10:05am Thursday 11th June 2009
1884 A discovery of no little moment has been made by Mr Needham Chippendale, while engaged fishing in the River Wharfe at Ilkley. When wading in the water a stone attracted his attention and a closer examination revealed that it had certain indications of having originally formed part of some work of sculpture. It appeared to have formed part of a cross. Rubbings of the stone have been sent away for examination.
7:30am Friday 5th June 2009
1884 A request was made to the Ilkley Local Board for compensation for a sheep killed by one of the seats on Ilkley Moor. The sheep had been rubbing itself on the seat, which had not been fastened down, when it toppled over trapping the animal which was later found dead.
11:13am Sunday 31st May 2009
1884 The staking out of the new railway line which is to connect Skipton and Ilkley has been persevered with during the past week at the Skipton end. The work of making the line will, it is confidently stated, be commenced in a very short time.
12:49pm Thursday 21st May 2009
1884 A daughter of Mr Morville Holmes of Town Head, Addingham, aged three years, was knocked down and run over by a horse and trap belonging to and being driven by Mr Fred Nelson, The Grove, Ilkley. The child was playing with several companions in the road near Town Head Mill and appears not to have seen the passing trap. We are glad to know that no bones were broken and the child is now not much worse for the accident.
9:40am Friday 15th May 2009
Stories from the archives of the Ilkley Gazette.
12:00pm Friday 8th May 2009
Stories from the Ilkley Gazette in years gone by.
5:00pm Thursday 30th April 2009
Stories from the archives of the Ilkley Gazette.
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