St Aidan’s Nature Reserve: What better way to dispose of an unwanted opencast coal mining excavation can there be than to convert it into a nature reserve with associated trails and view points. Opencast … Continue Reading →
Charlie Bentley – Methley Perceverance
Charlie Bentley Perseverance was the name of the football side captained by Charlie in those successful years in between the wars. And perseverance was just one of the many qualities … Continue Reading →
Joe Sidebottom – Foreman Blacksmith
Joe Sidebottom Blacksmith Savile Colliery Imagine, it’s 5.40am on a winter Sunday in the 1960’s, and Joe the foreman blacksmith is already igniting the forge prior to starting work at … Continue Reading →
Revd. Thomas Dawson Lumb – Curate
Thomas Dawson Lumb Curate 1821 -1843 The Leeds Intelligencer reported the recovery of the body of Dawson Lumb of Methley on the 17th December, 1843 from the river Aire at … Continue Reading →
Lord Welles Lord of the Manor
Cecelia, one of the daughters of the young Sir Robert Waterton had married into the Welles family of Lincolnshire – her husband Sir Lionel Welles was later to be killed … Continue Reading →
Governance in Methley 1931 to 1936
Local Governent in Methley Page 5 In 1931 the rate dropped to 7s. The road estimate having been cut, census figures indicated a population of 4,506. Difficulties with water supply … Continue Reading →
Governance in Methley 1923 to 1930
Local Government in Methley Page 4 At the January meeting in 1923 a proposal to purchase the Institute and grounds out of Miner’s Welfare funds was mentioned. The annual … Continue Reading →
Governance in Methley 1909 to 1922
Local Government in Methley Page 3 Mr TW Embleton was elected chairman in 1907 and that year plans and estimates were submitted by MR JS Richardson and approved for … Continue Reading →
Governance in Methley 1882 to 1908
Local Government in Methley Page 2 Mr. North resigned as clerk of the Board in 1882 and Mr RS Wigin who had been admitted a solicitor in December 1875 and … Continue Reading →
Governance in Methley 1876 to 1881
Page 1 Local Government in Methley 1876 to 1881 When Rates were 1/3d in the £ Methley Urban Council was to lose its identity following the rearrangement of areas under … Continue Reading →
Earth Stood Hard as Iron
December 2017 Mid 1950’s and three of us were trying to earn some spending brass and bring good cheer to local residents with our carol singing in the run up … Continue Reading →