Slack Lane Chapel and the Bancroft records

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  1st Slack Chapel - 2024  I recently came across a book about the Slack Lane Chapel, Oakworth, nr. Keighley produced for it's 180th Ann...

Horkinstone Chapel, and it's new Organ.

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Horkinstone Chapel....in the bleak mid winter    This is the story of Horkinstone Baptist Chapel, built on the outskirts of Oxenhope, which ...

Urine collected from the home for the Woollen Trade

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  18th century men scouring wool with paddles A little known fact is that men's urine was collected from people's homes in the 17t...

Grandmother liked to keep up with fashions of the times.

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Whilst going through some old family photos left by me Grandmother, Hettie Bancroft, who herself was a keen photographer, I was struck by th...

John Thomas Bancroft....quite an entrepreneur in business

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Here's an interesting story of a John Thomas Bancroft, which started with the find of an old machine oil bottle in a garage. who altho...

Jabez & Arthur Bancroft.....Weslyan Chapel Sextons

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                                                                       Interment book Ist page of book - February 1862   I was recently le...

Edmund Bancroft...."Brew House Keeper"

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  New Inn - early 1900's I recently read an article in our local newspaper about a local pub, The New Inn at Crossroads near Keighley...
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Yorkshire Girls in WW2 Women's Land Army

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  WW2 Recruitment Poster The Women's Land Army played a very important job in both world wars, and some local Yorkshire Bancroft women...