Across the Years
Across the Years
125 years ago
Good Friday and the Easter holidays, times of recreation and enjoyment as well as seasons for the performance of specific religious duties, have this year fallen on evil days, and human arrangements, hopes, longings, and aspirations, together with pre-concerted schemes for the spending of the time in the pleasantest and most agreeable fashion, have been rudely blown aside by our common enemy - the east wind.
Mr Joseph Wood who was a butcher for some years in Church Street, Ilkley, where his son still carries on the business, died suddenly. He went to Ripon cattle sales in his usual health, and was taken ill in the market. Medical assis-tance was procured but he died of inflammation and spasms. He was 52 years of age.
The scholars belonging to the Wesleyan Reform Sunday School, Addingham, held their annual festival on Good Friday. Like the Wesleyan scholars, they also paraded through the village and sang hymns, but each of the schools contrived to walk different ways so as not to interfere with each other. The Wesleyans were more numerous and had a gayer appear-ance.
100 years ago
The accident which Albert Ellwood met with at 8.37am on Thursday morning, while crossing the railway near the Ilkley Goods Office, resulted in his death at 2.15am on Monday morning. He was a son of Mr Robert Ellwood and had been employed as a clerk at Ilkley Brewery for 14 years. He was 28 years of age and a young man who was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him. The event was rendered all the more tragic from the fact that at the time of the accident Ellwood's mother was lying unconscious suffering from a paralytic seizure and died the same evening.
The Duke of Devonshire passed peacefully away at Cannes on Tuesday morning. Death was due to heart failure. He was well-known to many local peo-ple through the regularity with which he came to residence at Bolton Abbey, his Yorkshire seat, for the grouse shooting and where he from time to time entertained the Prince of Wales and other distinguished sportsmen.
The Ilkley dramatic society was formed some months ago and a good start has been made by the selection of a very humorous three-act play entitled Fac-ing the Music'.
75 years ago
The remarkable development of electricity in the last decade or so, and the many advantages to be obtained today by means of a full electrical service in the home, formed the subject of a lecture, illustrated by lantern slides, given by Mr G S Francis, of the British Electrical Devel-opment Association, in the Ilkley Winter Garden.
It must be a source of considerable gratification to Major Glynn, of Ilkley, to find his ap-peals on behalf of worn-out ex-British horses in Egypt has met with so much support. Major Glynn himself became deeply interested in the work some 12 months ago and since then, through press correspondence and by addressing meetings, he has helped to arouse interest and assistance throughout the country.
Five Ilkley men were summoned to Otley Police Court for falsely drawing unemployment benefit. Mr J Ezard, prosecuting on behalf of the Ministry of Labour, said each of the defendants had drawn unemployment benefit for a day when they received payment for be-ing employed as beaters, and were liable to three months imprisonment or a fine. The chairman said a warning was given with regard to these cases at the previous court, and if any further cases came before the magistrates they would consider the advisability of sending the offenders to jail. Each of the defendants was fined 40s, with the exception of one who was fined 60s.
50 years ago
When returning to his garage in Regent Road, Ilkley, after being sent for by police on Tuesday evening, the owner found his office had been ransacked, and goods to the value of £7 had been taken. The drawers of his desk had been pulled out and had been emptied of their contents, which were strewn around the office. Some five shillings in copper, an electric razor, valued at £3, four loose insurance stamps and two insurance cards were among the articles taken.
Mrs Arthur Spivey, of Wharfedale Drive, has become the first woman Vice-President of the Old Olicanians Association at the annual meeting. Formerly Miss Barbara Sparham, Mrs Spivey attended the school from 1939 to 1943 and was a member of the Joint Committee of Ilkley Grammar School Old Boys' and Old Girls' Association. She is a daughter of Mr Ernest Sparham, formerly Senior Physics Master at the school.
Thirty-five northern schools are this week taking part in the annual seven-a-side tournament organised by the Ilkley Rugby Club. For the early rounds, three pitches are used. This year a trophy has been presented and thus in addition to the parchment record which is presented to the previous year's finalists, the captain of the winning team will receive a cup at the end of each year's tournament.
25 years ago
Save money this Easter and have great fun, says the Egg Information Bureau. Decorate hard-boiled eggs for family and friends instead of giving chocolate ones. Not only will painted eggs be a source of amusement they will provide a nutritious breakfast or snack on Easter Sunday. It is believed the custom of decorating eggs in this country at Easter dates back to the 4th Century when the church forbade the eating of eggs during lent. To use up the surplus stocks they were hard-boiled, dyed bright colours and given to the children to play with.
A dig at a bronze age site at Burley-in-Wharfedale by Ilkley archaeology group has so far proved unsuccessful. The group excavated a 15ft square around a small cairm at Woofa Bank but all they found was peat and sandy soil.
The organisation of the disco dancing competition to be held at Madame's the exclusive Ilkley night-club is in full swing. The panel of judges are all well-known in the world of dance.
12:31pm Thursday 27th March 2008
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