Payment for Otley Ladies Sick Visiting Society (From Wharfedale Observer)

Payment for Otley Ladies Sick Visiting Society

9:00am Thursday 18th June 2009

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1884

John Sinclair, on behalf of the Ladies Sick Society, acknowledges a donation as follows: “Received from Mr Hawkins, of East View Terrace, Otley, the sum of Two Guineas for the Otley Ladies Sick Visiting Society, being part amount paid to him in a compromised claim for damages.”

• A farmer and quarry owner appeared at the West Riding Police Court charged with stealing a wooden roof, worth £2, belonging to Abraham Webster, of North Road, Horsforth. The roof of a piggery and hen roost belonged to Horsforth Grange, which Mr Webster owned, was missed and could not be traced. It was later found at the farmer’s premises covering a cart shed. Defendant said the charge was a trumped up one and the bench dismissed it.

• The works in connection with the new water scheme at Timble have been commenced. The excavation for the tank and filter bed have been completed. The whole is likely to be ready for its mission of health in the course of a few weeks. The villagers are to be congratulated on their prospect of soon having an abundant supply of pure water in place of the present uncertain and impure supply.

1909

On Sunday morning while his temporary guardian was in the Royalty a boy of about nine years of age went to play on the edge of the Chevin and he essayed a run down a steep part, with the result that he fell forward and was much bruised and shaken before his descent could be arrested. Some onlookers with difficulty climbed down to him and did what they could to alleviate his sufferings.

• The completion of the second section of the tramway system to Guiseley will be practically an accomplished fact by noon tomorrow. A special effort has been made by the contractors during the past week to get the paving done and the road thoroughly cleared and so rapidly has the work been proceeded with that there is now happily no cause for fear of any interference with the customary route of the Hospital Carnival procession. Within a fortnight of the current date trams will in all probability be running between Leeds and Guiseley.

• About nine o’clock on Wednesday evening a serious accident occurred at Moorfield Mills, Yeadon to one of the employees named Ernest Exley, who resides with his parents in East View. He was attending one of the machines in the scribbling department. The machine itself was standing at the time but in reaching over to pick something off Exley’s smock, which was loose, was caught by the strap on the loose pulley and he was lifted off his feet and whirled violently to the floor, sustaining a bad fracture of the skull. He was conveyed home and attended to by Dr Dale but is still in a precarious condition.

1934

A Harrogate man has poured scorn on claims that a nightingale is singing in Otley. In a letter to a daily newspaper, Mr Riley Fortune said it would be extremely unlikely that the birds singing in Yorkshire would be nightingales. He says he has often investigated such reports elsewhere in the country and has found the birds to be other species. He said: “I think I am quite within the mark to say that 90 per cent of the reports are wrong. Nightingales begin to sing after their arrival in this country in April and practically cease to sing in the first week of June. They are then too busy providing food for their young.”

• Miss Frances Priestly, daughter of Mr and Mrs T Priestly of Horsforth, has been successful in winning the Leeds and District Individual Gymnastic Championship. She has also won the Leeds YWCA championship for two years in succession.

• There was a gay scene at a garden party on Saturday at Milner Bank, Otley, the home of Mr and Mrs T Kelly in aid of the building fund for a new hut for the Otley Parish Church Scouts and Guides. Full advantage had been taken of the ample resources of the grounds in the arrangement of the attractions, and the bright sunshine which favoured the event drew a large gathering. Clock golf, tennis bathing and competitions were popular and there was an enjoyable display of dancing by pupils of Miss Edith Lupton. The proceeds of the event (£23) brought the total to £100. A site for the new hut has already been acquired at Burras Lane, near the church Sunday Schools.

1959

Bright sunshine, a good entry and plenty of visitors made Askwith and District Young Farmers’ fifth attested club show on Saturday which was a most pleasant affair. Classes for cattle and sheep were on land adjoining the village hall and in the hall itself was an attractive display of produce and handicrafts. Two girl members of the club between them accounted for all the trophies. There were almost 300 entries in the 37 classes, which covered a wide range of Young Farmers’ activities, from calf-rearing to cookery.

• A woman from Bramhope admitted before Otley Magistrates’ Court being the owner of a dangerous dog. Supt Green said that when a telephone engineer was working opposite her house, a little spaniel sneaked up behind him and got its teeth through his trousers and into his leg. The owner said the dog had never done anything like this before and was very friendly. An order was made for the dog to be kept under control and for payment of 10s costs.

• The Otley Shopping Week was given a civic send-off on Saturday morning at a ceremony under the flag-bedecked Buttercross in the Market Place, when Coun Mrs Iris Wilkinson, chairman of Otley Council, congratulated the sponsors, the Chamber of Trade, on their enterprise and said it would draw attention to the excellent shopping facilities that exist in the town. Mr TW Laycock, President of the Chamber of Trade, presided at the opening ceremony, attended by many townspeople and visitors

1984

Carefully preserved lantern slides which have been restored and developed as photographs, showing the laying of the foundation stone of Bramhope Methodist Chapel in 1895 will be displayed in the church this weekend. The display is part of the Festival of Flowers aimed at raising funds for the renovation of stonework around the windows. The original slides were the work of a Mr D Pickard and the task of restoring them has been handled by Otley photographer Edward Winpenny.

• Leeds Western Area Health Authority will be deciding on whether or not to accept a recommendation by officers to close Otley Maternity Unit this week. Conscious of the strong feelings against closure, the Authority has given local people the chance to air their views before the meeting commences. Sister Robertson, representing staff at Otley Maternity Unit stressed that the family unit was of prime importance and outweighed any other factor.

• Burglars and vandals have driven a one-man Guiseley business to the brink of extinction after a spate of break-ins. Peter Murphy followed his father into the firm at Ghyll Royd Foundry, Leeds Road, Guiseley. His father bought it in the 1950s and Mr Murphy has kept it going doing jobbing work in the foundery business. He has been troubled over the years by break ins and vandalism but recently it has reached new heights. He said: “I’m concerned that some of these crimes are committed in broad daylight. We have houses and people nearby but no one seems to want to notice anything. I am being robbed right, left and centre and it is so bad the the insurance company will not cover me. I have to put in a £2,000 alarm. This is killing my business.”

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