Girl knocked down by a horse while playing in an Addingham road (From Ilkley Gazette)

Girl knocked down by a horse while playing in an Addingham road

12:49pm Thursday 21st May 2009

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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.

• A labourer of Burley was brought up at the Otley Police Court charged with passing a bad half-sovereign to Thomas Bradley, grocer, of Burley. Up to the present offence, the lad lived with an impeccable character and the charge of felony was dismissed by the magistrates. He was ordered to pay 10sh damages to the grocer and the expenses of the prosecution.

lPupils attending the Ladies’ College gave an entertainment to the patients at the Ilkley Hospital in the dining hall of the institution. A capital programme of vocal and instrumental music was contributed by these kind friends to the very evident satisfaction of those for whose special benefit it was arranged

1909

At a meeting at Leeds on Thursday, over which Mrs Steinthal presided, it was decided to form a branch for Leeds and District of the women’s anti-suffrage league.

• Sunday last was Military Sunday at York and 20 members of the Ilkley cycling club covered the distance in order to witness the military procession, the day being fine and the outing most enjoyable. Ilkley was left at 7am and York reached about 11am. A good dinner was first served at the Davy Hall Restaurant where a move was made to see the procession.

• The reference section of the Ilkley Public Library has been enriched by a valuable contribution of books from the British Museum, relating to antiquities in the British Museum and also the National History Museum, which are at present being exhibited in the loaning department. There is a very large volume entitled Book of the Dead which shows an exact reproduction of the papyri of the ancient Egyptian kings.

1934

Discoveries that may throw a valuable light on the origin and purposes of the cup and ring rock carvings on Ilkley Moor, which have puzzled antiquarians throughout the ages, have been made in connection with similar carvings in Northumberland. It is claimed that they are ordnance survey maps carved in stone and that they represent camp or village sites. Two independent investigators, working on quite separate lines, have joined forces in reaching this conclusion Mr William Brand, of Wooler, and Mr Alex Wills.

• Apart from the glorious sunshine of Monday afternoon, when Wharfedale was seen in its full loveliness and thousands of holiday makers poured into the valley to enjoy its glories, Whitsuntide this year was somewhat disappointing so far as weather conditions were concerned. Throughout the holidays there was a high wind and a nip in that wind. It was not until Monday afternoon that the Ban Holiday crowd, which so changes the appearance of Ilkley at least three times a year, began to be noticeable to any degree. Then, once more, came the long procession of ramblers across the moor. The river was running too high for boating but the fine pictures of the swift torrent rushing under the high arches of the Old Bridge provided excellent opportunities for amateur photographers.

• Concerning Lionel Cresent or Curly Hill, one of the older residents of Ilkley recalls that Lionel Crescent was named so before a sod was turned for the making of the road. Before the land was sold by the late Mr Charles Middleton it was surveyed and the roads planned. Lionel Crescent takes its title from the name of the youngest son of the late Mr Middleton – Mr Lionel Middleton. Curly Hill is practically a modern invention so far as one can trace it.

1959

The first walker to reach Ilkley in the annual Whitsuntide walk from Bradford to Ilkley and back to Bradford was Albert Johnson, of Sheffield United Harriers, who won the race for the sixth successive year. Besides holding the record for the fastest time for the course, he beat the all-time record which had been set up in 1917 and 1921 by T Payne, of Morpeth, who won five consecutive races. Near Pool Bank, Ot-ley, he collapsed and before he recovered, Joe Barraclough of Lancashire had established a four-minute lead. Johnson, for the rest of the walk, tried desperately to catch up and it was only a quarter of a mile from the finishing line in Peel park that he regained the lead and strode ahead.

• While four teenage girls were asleep inside a tent on the riverside near the Crum Wheel suspension bridge, Ilkley, on Monday night, a second tent alongside and containing some of their equipment (total value at about £20) was stolen. With the tent had gone their cooking equipment and they were unable to make their breakfast, but they had enough money to pay for their fares home. Next day part of the equipment and tent were found abandoned in an old trench in the Ghyll Royd School playing field at the bottom of Stourton Road.

• Skidding on the wet surface, a Jaguar car driven by a man from Denton Road, Ilkley, at about 8.45am on Wednesday, swerved off Denton Road between Carter's lane and Ben Rhydding bridge, and ran down the bank into the river. At this point the riverbank is well provided with trees but the car missed them by inches. It came to rest on its four wheels in less than two feet of water. It was later recovered by the staff of a local garage. The driver was uninjured.

1984

Two Ilkley sisters made history on Saturday with their double wedding, believed to be the first at Ilkley Parish Church. Miss Julie Wood married Mr Andrew John Hunter and Miss Sallie Wood married Mr Michael Walker. Both were given away by their father.

• Plans for a residential development on the site of a disused mill at Main Street, Addingham, have been approved by Bradford Metropolitan Council’s planning sub committee after a visit to the site. The plans involve the demolition of the disused industrial buildings, and have been given outline approval for the erection of eight flats and eight houses.

• Large crowds gathered at Church Street, Ilkley, on Saturday, to watch the filming of Private Function being shot in Ilkley. The action takes place in 1947, and Sunday’s filming centred on queues for meat outside Rosenthal’s butchers shop. The previous Sunday similar scenes had been filmed at Baraclough’s butchers shop in Bolling Road.

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