When Myddleton land was for sale - suitable for 'superior' houses

10:14am Friday 21st September 2007

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125 years ago

A further portion of the Myddleton Estate, is to be placed on the market. No less than 32 lots will be offered, all of them affording special advantages to purchasers. Lots one to 10, consisting of plots of land with frontages to Leeds Road and Castle Road and abutting the Wharfe present most desirable sites for the erection of superior dwellings A number of ladies connected with the London Missionary Society's Zenana Mission held a meeting in the Congregational Sunday School Buildings, Riddings Road, Ilkley. A meeting was held in the adjoining church when after singing and prayer addresses having special references to the mission work in India were given.

The Ilkley Feast began at the weekend and there was a large influx of visitors from the sur-rounding district. Trips were run to Redcar and Morecombe. The fairground behind the Wheat Sheaf was occupied with a bazaar, exhibition of mechanical models, shooting galleries, coconut and wooden doll 'knock-em-downs' and stalls.

100 years ago

Ladies interested in physical culture, either for themselves or for their children, will be glad to see the announcement in our ad-vertisements of Miss Rouse's re-turn to Ilkley and that she is re-commencing her classes. In this science, as in every other of a progressive nature, new discoveries are constantly being made, and Miss Rouse as we know by experience keeps herself au courant with them all.

The annual Ilkley feast has been held during the week. In accor-dance with a resolution passed by the district council some time ago, no stalls were allowed in the streets, a privilege that had been enjoyed for generations.

It is an old saying that 'in a mul-titude of counsellors there is wis-dom,' but my experience leads me to think that it is more a case of 'too many cooks spoiling the broth' where district councillors are concerned. The present members of Ilkley District Council have been responsible for some strange acts in their time. After the erection of the bandstand in West View Park, they passed a resolution to limit its use, in effect, to about ten weeks in the year.

75 years ago

Anti-vivisection propaganda has been carried on in Ilkley during the past week as a result of a visit of the van of the National Anti-Vivisection Society. Organising Secretary Mr G H Bowker addressed an informal meeting in the Blue Bird Café on Tuesday, and Miss Horsfall spoke of the courageous and able fight which Mr Bowker was making on behalf of defenceless animals.

In a health resort such as Ilkley swimming baths are a necessity. So often has Ilkley said 'yes, but not yet' to many schemes making for progress that it has already lost much of its position as an inland health resort. Even if baths are a cost on the rates is it worth nothing to the Ilkley rate-payers that the children of the town should be taught to swim?

This weekend marks Ilkley Feast, though the feast itself is one of the rapidly disappearing features of Ilkley. The fact that the Ilkley Council's decision to carry out once more a scheme of illuminat-ing the streets to coincide with the feast does in some measure, however, help to keep alive the annual date.

50 years ago

An Ilkley teenager who left school two months ago won a competition to find the girl with the most poise, personality, charm and grooming at Butlin's holiday camp, Skegness, last week. Miss Ruth Garside was chosen from 20 competitors. She will now receive a free week's holiday later in the year at one of the Butlins hotels where she will compete in the semi-finals of this national competition.

The gradual fall in the quantity of meat and offals condemned for tuberculosis and other unsound conditions at the Ilkley Abbattoir and Scalebor Park Private Slaughterhouse gave some indication of the high quality of the animals slaughtered in this area, states the Chief Public Health Inspector for the Ilkley District, Mr J H Wilson. Another significant feature in the statistics of the meat inspection section is the gradual fall in the incidence of tuberculosis in food animals.

A welcome to Ilkley was given to two Jamaican Scouters, who are staying in the district as guests of the Wharfedale Association, following their atten-dance at the Jubilee Jamboree celebrations. Councillor Mrs F S Hampshire said the Scouters had travelled great distances in order to share in the jubilee celebrations of the Scout Movement, the aims and objects of which were of untold value to the people of all countries.

25 years ago

Capt David Rundle, skipper of the merchant ship British Wye, was welcomed back to Adding-ham at the weekend after return-ing from the Falklands. The Brit-ish Wye was one of the luckiest ships in the task force, having had bombs strike the deck and bounce off without exploding.

When most were fast asleep on Saturday morning, the committee of Ilkley's talking newspaper was busy launching the first edition. On Friday the newspaper copies were collected and the 'editor' got to work with scissors and board preparing the items to be ready. By seven in the evening the equipment was being tested and by nine o'clock four readers were sitting nervously round the table.

Reasons for the urgency of hous-ing the 'Ilkley Crosses' before the winter were explained to mem-bers of the Olicana Museum His-torical Society by Dr Margaret Faull, a field officer with the West Yorkshire County Archaeology. Dr Faull gave a brief his-tory of the crosses tracing their origins to Ireland, and pointed out that the Ilkley crosses had been rescued from misuse, such as being used as gate-posts in 1880.