Across the Years
Across the Years
125 years ago
At the Otley police court, Isaac Emsley applied for an ejectment order against a woman who had taken possession of a house in Guy Croft. She had asked for the key for the house to see if it suited her for rent. She took possession of the house but did not pay any rent and positively refused to leave when asked to do so. An order was made but not to be enforced for seven days.
At the West Riding Court in Leeds, a man was fined 10s for obstructing the road in Rawdon. PC Atkinson said he saw a horse and cart standing opposite the Nag's Head Inn from 6.40pm until 7pm. On going inside the house he found the defendant in the tap room.
At the Otley Police Court four men were brought up in custody charged with cruelty to animals by cockfighting. Police went to the house of a poultry dealer in Yeadon and in an upper chamber they found be-tween 30 and 40 men witnessing or taking part in a cockfight. One man seized a cock and jumped through the window with it.
100 years ago
On Saturday afternoon the new elementary school in Westgate was formally opened in the presence of a large gathering of people. With the exception of the North Parade school, this was the only one in Otley which had not been built by private business concerns or religious denominations. The opening was presided over by Mr F T Hunter. The Chairman, in opening the proceedings, said they were met on that occasion to mark another step forward in the provisions for elementary education for Otley.
A public inquiry was held at the Council Offices, Horsforth, by Local Government Board Inspector Mr R H Bicknell, into the application of the Horsforth District Council for sanction to borrow £650 for alterations to the public offices and for the erection of a public urinal in Town Street, adjoining the public offices; and for £1,643 for ex-tensions of water mains in their district. There were no objections to the applications and the inquiry closed.
Apropos of matters educational there was a matter touched upon on Saturday afternoon which many are beginning to wonder whether or not it has been relegated to the oblivion of the past. We refer to the sec-ondary school for Otley. Noth-ing appears to have been heard since a communication was re-ceived six months ago from the Board of Education stating thatthey were willing to sanction a scheme for the erec-tion of a secondary school for boys and girls at Otley, and as soon as the details were com-plete the governors of the Otley Grammar School would be called upon to discuss it. One wonders whether the thing has been dropped like a hot brick.
75 years ago
Damage estimated at about £800 was caused by fire at the Rookery in Horsforth this weekend. Yeadon Joint Fire Brigade was called to the outbreak and arrived just in time to rescue a domestic servant, Miss Jenny Miller, who had been overcome by smoke in one of the upper rooms. The fire originated in the upstairs parlour and quickly spread along the main landing.
A memorial to the officers who landed in France on April 15, 1915, with the Otley Battery of the Wharfedale Howitzer Brigage, was unveiled in Otley Drill Hall this week. The memorial takes the form of an oak tablet on which has been inscribed more than 150 names and which records also 32 of the major battles in which the bat-tery took part.
Contracts for new houses being built in Otley have finally been secured - after being lost in the post for seven years. The forms, dated November 11, 1926, arrived at their destination this week. Unfortunately the houses for the building of which the forms were required, are not only erected but have been inhabited for some years.
50 years ago
Successful efforts to avoid having to erect concrete houses on a Pool-in-Wharfedale council housing estate were mentioned when members of Wharfedale Rural District Council and Pool Parish Council gathered on the new £120,000 Church Close estate to mark the official opening of the last of the 79 houses and bungalows to be built there.
A heavy metal replica of an alsatian guide dog has been presented to Mrs Hugh Garland, wife of a Leeds surgeon, of Creskeld Drive, Bramhope, to mark ten years of voluntary work for the Guide Dog for the Blind Association in Leeds and district. The replica was pre-sented to Mrs Garland by the Duchess of Kent at the society's annual meeting at Admiralty House, London. After a bazaar to be held in Leeds towards the end of the year, Mrs Garland hopes that £10,000 will have been raised since she founded the Leeds branch.
The necessity for more of the villagers to support the church and chapel more fully was stressed by the vicar, the Rev FG Southworth at the annual meeting of Pool Parish Church on Monday. The vicar said the drop-in weekly collections was largely due to the fact that one or two generous and regular attenders at church had left.
25 years ago
Vandalism at Otley Civic Centre was discussed at a meeting of Otley Town Council Civic Centre Committee at which the warden, Mr Scott, reported that after a recent disco a radiator protection rail had been found pulled away from the wall. Mr Scott said he had been informed by the night wardens that people hiring the main hall for discos did not supervise the proceedings very effectively. This caused chaos in the building including broken glass on the floors.
Burley Youth Forum - set up to improve youth facilities in the village of Burley is well on the way towards this year's target of £1,000. The total collected since September was £595 and the treasurer, Dr Dennis Warwick, was confident that the target would be reached as Burley Christian Council had generously offered to give a fifth of the income from the village fete and the parish church had agreed to give the forum its own fifth share of the income.
Proposals to provide long and short term jobs for Otley's unemployed were outlined at a special meeting of Otley Town Council Industry and Tourism Committee. County Councillor Barry Peters reported that discussions had been held with the Manpower Services Commission about providing local places on the Community Programme.
9:48am Thursday 3rd April 2008
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