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125 years ago

At a meeting of the Ilkley School Board members commented on the very marked increase in average attendance, the cause of which was explained to have been the examination, and it was thought that if scholars could be got together on an occasion like that, they should endeavour to keep up the average attendance. The chairman remarked on the apathy of poor parents applying to the relieving officer for the granting of school fees.

The Convalescent Home of Ilkley, founded, endowed at presented to the Corporation of Bradford by the late Mr Charles Semon has now been in operation for a period of eight years during which time it has been the means of giving health and strength to a very large number of persons. But by some mischance not more than one application in ten is from Bradford, the people for whom it was founded for.

Despite the manifold attractions offered, and the persuasive eloquence of the auctioneer, who tried his utmost to effect a sale, the two desirable residences situate in The Grove, and known as Acorn Villas were withdrawn without a bid.

100 years ago

A wintry Easter. Good Friday's promise of beautiful weather for Easter was not fulfilled. On this day better weather could not possibly have been desired, and the people came in by road and rail to Ilkley, or walked across the moor were much more numerous than usual. On Saturday the temperature dropped and on Sunday morning snow began to fall, wafted at random on a strong breeze.

The body of Norman Robinson, aged five, son of John Thomas Robinson, of Low Mill, Addingham, was dragged from the River Wharfe near Cockin Deep. The child had overbalanced and fallen into the water while climbing a railing protecting the weir near his home. An inquest jury recommended that the fence be made unclimable.

An alarming motor car accident occurred in Hangingstone Road, Ilkley. The car contained a lady and two gentlemen and was being driven up the road, but the steep ascent proved too much for the engine. It stopped and the lady and one of the gentlemen got out. The car then began to back on to the moorland and but for one of the wheels smashing and the broken axle acting as a brake, the remaining occupant would have been hurled down hill to almost certain doom.

75 years ago

Though not yet quite completed, Ilkley's new public garden on The Grove at the corner of Parish Ghyll Road was opened for the Easter Holidays. It was well used throughout the weekend and in summer will provide a welcome retreat. d cry out for treatment on similar lines.

The question as to whether Addingham is to continue its annual show was answered in the affirmative on Wednesday. The annual meeting of the Addingham Agricultural and Horticultural Society had been adjourned to that date after a suggestion to abandon the show had been put forward at the last meeting. Mr W H Fox was elected chairman, and said there was a dilatoriness in carrying on the work of the show, and they did not get the support they ought to. Mr W Whitaker proposed that no show be held this year. An amendment was moved by Mr J Flesher, seconded by Mr Lumley, that the show be held. It was carried by nine votes to five, four being neutral.

After three weeks of weather almost like summer there has been a return to winter. Sunshine, which made lounging on Ilkley Moor a luxury, has been succeeded by snow. Between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning there were actually seven degrees of frost on the grass, and the temperature of the air had fallen to as low as 30 degrees.

50 years ago

Whilst Ilkley AFC footballers were playing Guiseley on the Burley ground on Monday evening their clothes were being rifled and a wristlet watch valued at £22 and a total of more than £2 cash were stolen. The Ilkley players changed into their football kit in an outbuilding adjoining the Queens Head Hotel, Main Street, which cannot be seen from the football pitch. The precaution of locking the door had been taken but the thief or thieves had gained access by breaking a window at the back of the building.

The contract for the new Ilkley Secondary Modern School on a site with frontages to Valley Drive and Wheatley Lane at Ben Rhydding is expected to be signed in March of next year, the Deputy County Architect told the School Governors at their quarterly meeting on Monday night. The total cost is approximately £60,000.

Several seats in Ilkley's two cinemas are out of commission due to wilful damage, caused it is alleged by teenage hooligans. Managements of both places this week expressed concern about the growing tendency to damage seats. At the Grove Cinema , the manager, Mr G Dixon, estimated that he had some 40 seats under repair. Teenagers had been responsible for the damage to them, he said, and the position was getting worse.

25 years ago

The Crumwheel Bridge, the gas works, the Wharfe and the Hawksworth, all feature as subjects in the current exhibition at the Manor House, Ilkley, which is an 80th birthday tribute to the Bradford born Royal Academician, Richard Eurich. This eminent artist was educated at Bradford Grammar School, and the College of Art, and for some years lived with his family in Ben Rhydding Road, Ilkley. His father, Dr R W Eurich, was the bacteriologist celebrated for his research into anthrax.

The Women's Gas Federation and Young Homemakers met at Church House, Ilkley, when they heard a talk about Shaklee products. They included nutritional supplements for a positive way to good nutrition and various vitamins needed in a diet, as well as beauty aids, and research products.

A solid but distinctly unglamorous display of goods met an interesting cross-section of demand to produce nearly £52,000 at Dacre, Son and Hatley's April collection sale of over 500 lots. The supply comprised a useful selection of mainly 18th and 19th Century furniture, most of it in need of restoration.

3:01pm Thursday 24th April 2008

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