Rawdon Board gets approval for compulsory purchase of land (From Wharfedale Observer)

Rawdon Board gets approval for compulsory purchase of land

11:28am Thursday 25th February 2010

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1885

ON Tuesday, Mr Thomas Codrington, CE one of the inspectors of the Local Government Board, held an inquiry upon the petition of the Rawdon Local Board for a provisional order empowering it to compulsory acquire certain lands required for purposes of sewage disposal. There was no opposition to the proposal except from Mr W Gray, a portion of whose lands it was proposed to acquire for the outfall works. The land in question is situated upon the side of the river Aire, in the valley beneath the Woodlands Convalescent Home.

A LETTER was received from Sir Charles Dilke by the Scotch deputation in London on Wednesday, and another from the Lord Advocate, stating that the Government had decided to adopt the recommendations of the Boundary Commissioners and declining to receive any deputation on the subject. It is therefore tolerably certain that the name given to this division in the provisional scheme will be retained and henceforth known as The Otley Division.

ON Saturday morning, just after work had been commenced, a serious accident happened to a boy named William Henry Long, about 15 years of age, in the employ of Mr Constantine Waterhouse, at Manor Mills, Yeadon. About half-past six he and another boy were teasing each other about valentines, standing at the time near a hoist, which was boarded off from the room, but with which it communicated by means of a door. This boy Long during the conversation had opened this door and, being under the impression that the hoist was at the top, had stepped back intending to step into the lift, which unfortunately had happened to have been stopped at the middle storey. In consequence of this the lad missed his footing and fell down into the hoist, a distance of about 14ft.

1910

THE annual parade of the horses forming the well known Bramhope stud, the property of Mr A Grandage, is always a very popular event with the farmers and breeders of the district, and on Saturday when this year’s event took place, many of the principal breeders of shire horses in the county were present. The parade took place in the paddock adjoining the stables and here the animals, which have won success in many prize-rings, were shown to the best advantage. All of them attracted a good deal of attention, especially the seven which were entered for the London Show, which has been held this week. Their great size, fine feet and legs and, for shires, splendid action won golden opinions on all hands. Little wonder is it that, as sires, the horses of the Bramhope stud are eagerly sought after and this year, as usual, animals will be sent into all parts of the country.

AN accident occurred at Pool Bank about 7.30pm on Friday, Mr John Brown, a farmer from Headingley, being thrown from his trap and injured about the head. He and Mr John Kell, traveller, of Baildon, were going from Otley to Headingley. Near Caley Hall gates the horse bolted and, one wheel of the trap running on the top of a heap of stones by the roadside, the trap overturned, both the occupants being thrown out. Mr Kell was uninjured but Mr Brown was found on the road bleeding profusely from a wound on the head. The horse was stopped further along the road by farm servant Arthur Spence, of Bramhope, he took the horse back and with the assistance of Mr Kell and Mr Chas. Bradley, of the Bar House, Pool Bank, lifted the injured man on to a flat cart and drove him home.

IN the neighbourhood of Otley on Tuesday, among a flock of starlings which blackened a field, one bird stood out prominently, especially as observed through a field glass, by reason of the phenomenon that it was purely white. Wharfedale seems to be prolific in these albinos. There are white and partly white blackbirds and a white swallow was shot about eighteen months ago.

1935

A five-year-old child was knocked down by a motor car in Ilkley Road, Otley, as she was returning home from school on Monday afternoon. The child was crossing the road. She was taken to Leeds Infirmary suffering from a fracture of the thigh. It is not long since a child from the same school was knocked down and killed in similar circumstances only a short distance from the scene of the accident on Monday.

THE grand finale of Yeadon’s second amateur pantomime this season, “Mother Goose” was attended by a packed house on Saturday night, at the Town Hall. Every available seat was sold. At the end of the performance, which went with more than ordinary zest and swing, presents were handed up to the artists taking part. They included baskets of fruit and bouquets of cut flowers.

MR AK Ackernley, of Hollin Nook, Burley, has accepted an invitation to be president of the Wharfedale Agricultural Society. Mr Ackernley, who is a business man well known both in Wharfedale and Bradford, succeeds Mr Arthur Hill, of Denton Hall. The annual Otley Show is less than three months away, and preparations are well under way.

1960

OVER 70 uniformed police officers, including the Chief Constables of 17 forces, lined the churchyard path from the gates to the door of Otley Parish Church on Friday at the funeral of Lt-Colonel Sir Frank Brook, of The Manor House, Pool, to pay homage to a former Chief Constable of the West Riding and a former HM Inspector of Constabulary, who was also a Deputy Lieutenant of the West Riding. The cortege was met on the outskirts of Otley by an escort of 40 West Riding police officers, under their chief drill instructor, Chief Inspector W Watters, and Sgt Patterson.

WHEN a motorist called in on Otley police in the early hours of Sunday morning to report that a van had run into a wall in Arthington Lane, and the driver appeared to have no clothes on, the police turned out an ambulance, and went along to investigate. They found the van occupied by a 28-year-old butcher from Doncaster, wrapped in a car rug and little else, who had a story of a remarkable series of accidents. He had been to Ilkley in his father’s van to see his girl friend, who is a student there. He had stopped on the outskirts of Otley on his way back, been blinded by the headlights of another vehicle and slid down the bank into the river. His heavy coat and suit were saturated and rather than drive all the way to Doncaster in them, he stripped off, and wrapped himself in a rug. In Arthington, however, the van skidded on ice and ran into a wall.

A WOMAN was admitted to Otley hospital and detained, with burns to her legs, after her clothing had accidentally caught fire at home.

1985

THE Secretary of State for the Environment has granted permission for silica sand to be extracted from approximately half the area for which permission was sought at Blubberhouses. Mr Patrick Jenkin has approved the recommendations of the inspector following the public inquiry held in Harrogate last May and June, and has granted Blubberhouses Silica Sand Company a planning permission that had been sought. This is expected to allow the project a life of about 25 years, instead of 51 years at the proposed rate of production of 210,000 tonnes a year.

A PLAN to revise school hours, enabling pupils to be on their way home by 3.20pm, is outlined in the Guiseley School newsletter issued this week. But an earlier start to the day, to come into effect in April, will mean pupils beginning lessons at 8.35am. The headmaster, Mr B R Feinson, says that the retiming of the school day has been brought about because the staff have become increasingly conscious of time wasted by many pupils at lunchtime and the problems of supervising children returning early from lunch at home. “In addition,” he says, “the winter nights have again raised the concern for pupils walking home after 4pm in the dark.”

THE campaign to keep open the Wharfedale Children’s Hospital at Menston reaches an important stage on Monday when the Watch campaigners meet John Patten, Junior Health Minister, at the House of Commons. About 16 members who have been actively involved will go to London. Since the decision was made to close the hospital children have left who would ordinarily still be there. Children who would have been admitted for holiday relief will not be admitted; a facility previously regarded as suitable alternative for children in Leeds is no longer regarded as suitable; and the acute wards are not able to provide the important aspect of having ongoing relationships with other children.

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