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Children from Addingham Junior Mixed School enjoyed the benefits of open air learning in 1960.

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125 years ago

Seen from the Cow rock of the Hanging Stone Ridge on Rombald's Moor a comet presented a most beautiful appearance. Its tail subtended an angle of quite 30 degrees. A simple way to find its present position is to draw an imaginary line from the Pole Star through the two 'pointers' of Ursa Major; this line passes through the tail.

Parents who are unable to pay the fees of the Ilkley School will not in future have to appear before the Board of Guardians of the Poor in order to be allocated a free school place. A resolution was passed that the Board would accept the recommendation of the Ilkley School Board.

The disastrous floods and heavy rains have effectually put a stop to agricultural work. All ploughing and sowing have been stopped, and the weather has been far too unpropitious for threshing. Farm work has therefore been at a standstill.

100 years ago

The district council's proposal to re-level the whole of Brook Street, and re-level and re-flag the footpaths, so as to make the gradient uniform throughout, is not a scheme that seems to be meeting with anything like gen-eral approval. We are at present passing through trying times, locally as well as nationally, and some of our tradespeople are feeling the pinch severely. So much so that the slightest prospect of increased taxation is like a "red rag to a bull."

It is a pity to see any good work languish or have to be curtailed for lack of funds, and though there is no likelihood of anything like this happening in the case of the Ilkley and Wharfedale Or-phanage, it's financial condition is anything but satisfactory.

The large gangs of men at present engaged excavating various thoroughfares in the town has evidently excited many people's bump of inquisitiveness, as inquiries innumerable have been made as to the character of the operation. The work is the laying of underground telephone wires by the National Telephone Com-pany.

75 years ago

As Plot Night draws nearer interest is quickened not only amongst the juvenile population but also amongst Ilkley fathers, some of whom have already been seen returning home with bun-dles of fireworks. I cannot think of another festival that arouses such universal enthusiasm. Maybe one reason is because it is one of the rare celebrations of folly in our solemn English cal-endar.

Frank comment concerning the need for houses in Addingham and the state of the sewage farm is made in the current issue of Lister's Magazine. It is observed: There are many people eagerly awaiting work and Addingham has unemployed masons and labourers. Houses are badly needed if workers are not to be imported from outside the village. We have seen the construction of a new factory that will employ more than 200 operatives. It is therefore necessary that we should provide residences for these people and so keep the money in our own village.

Pound Day at the Ilkley Coronation Hospital, despite unfavourable weather conditions, again proved a marked success and the hospital's larder at the conclusion of the reception of gifts represented a combination of a grocer's and greengrocer's establishment.

50 years ago

A prisoner from Leeds Prison was being searched for by police yesterday after he had been reported missing from Middleton Hospital, near Ilkley. He had been receiving treatment for tuberculosis since February of this year. Few at the hospital were aware that the man was other than an ordinary patient and although he was seen walking down the road away from the hospital at 3.30am, it was not un-til some hours later that this information reached a doctor who said the man should not have been outside the hospital grounds.

The entry of 110 new pupils at the beginning of this term to the Ilkley Secondary School has meant that morning assembly has had to be divided into sepa-rate sections for juniors and seniors. This represents one of the first of the more serious effects the 'bulge' - which has reached the secondary school stage - is having in the district and num-bers are likely to go on increasing until 1961. It has not only caused splitting up assembly but means the school can no longer congregate as one body.

The final figures for the sale of work in aid of St Peter's Church Tower Fund has reached more than £250. Commenting on the sale, a number of parishioners have said that there was a greater variety of goods than usual. Flowers were in abundance and the bouquet of chrysanthemums and gladioli presented by Barbara Sunderland to the opener of the sale, was a great sight to see. It reflects great credit on all who organised the sale.

25 years ago

Shoppers in Ilkley may have wondered what was going on when they saw a young man walking around with a sandwich board on Monday. If they stopped him to ask they would have found out that it was Keith K Rice of Bradford, trying to publicise his crime thriller The Bradford Connection'. This is his third attempt to get a novel published.

Members of Ilkley District Road Safety Committee have been told how road conditions at the roundabout at Menston were so bad that ornaments had fallen off shelves in the nearby public house when heavy lorries went past.

An Ilkley hotel with unique facilities for business people was officially opened by the Lord Mayor of Bradford. As well as the normal colour television, radio and telephone, the Rombalds Hotel offers a unique business service comprising the latest Prestel facilities, a 24-hour Telex service, full-time photocopying and a secretarial service available at any hour.

4:11pm Thursday 1st November 2007

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