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Hi Terry, I am sorry to have taken so long, but please find attached two pictures of Alder House. they are not great, but they are the best I have received so far. About a month ago Mrs Jones sadly passed away and I have struck up a friendship with her niece who was clearing the house. She took lots of paper work with her back to Brighton, and she mailed these two pictures to me this morning.

It was quite an imposing sight, and I hope that it brings back some memories for you. I also hope that I may get some more yet, and I will pass these on to you if and when they arrive.

Steve

Thank you so much for this information. I had begun to lose hope in finding anything about the house. I will definitely look to the archives and see what they can offer.

I think it is a real shame that such a large and historic house was left to get into such a state and then be demolished. I now live on a 20 year old development that is in, what were the grounds of the house. I have two old sycamore trees that must have been on the original land of the house.

Let's hope that I can find something

Steve

I am trying to locate a picture of this house, which was demolished sometime in the 1980's I think. The house was just off Galloway Lane in Pudsey. I have tried the Civic society, but to no avail. Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance

I have recently discovered that my great grandfather William Willson married Laura Jane Williams in Festiniog in August 1879. They appear in Liverpool on the 1881 census, but then William marries again in Cleasby near Darlington in October 1891 stating that he was a bachelor. I have not been able to find a death for Laura, and I doubt that divorce would have been an option for them as William was a housepainter.

Laura was the daughter of Griffith Williams.

Is anyone familiar with this family?

Sorry Jennifer, I am going round in circles here, and desperate to find the marriage. Think I am clutching at straws, and should probably give up.