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My mams Aunty Mary Close from Sedbergh married cow keeper James Alderson from Swaledale and they lived in 76 Chester Road, Tuebrook, Liverpool and she corresponded with them often.
In the 1980’s I took mam on a visit there and she was expecting a farm not a terraced house. The cowsheds were probably on the now waste ground at the junction with Clifton Road East.
James Alderson arrived in Liverpool with his father George from Swaledale [a former lead miner], mother Ann along with sisters Margaret and Mary. On the same street {No 9] Robert Pratt arrived the same year as George in 1888. Christopher Lambert took over from Pratt as a cow keeper around 1925 and lived there until at least 1970. Lambert may have worked with the Aldersons or the Capstick’s in Marlborough Road four streets away. The Capstick’s were the last cow keepers to pull up sticks in 1975 and when the cows were taken away in a cattle truck, so ended a tradition that many in the city today know little about. All the listed cow keepers from Chester Road including the Capstick’s are names very familiar within the farming community ten miles of Hawes Junction Station. 

 Re Dinsdales. They also lived at Brownmoor Farm Near Hawes, I knew a Wilson Dinsdale who lived in Gayle farmed in Widdale, buried in Hawes Cemetery located on the Burtersett side of Hawes
Dinsdales are well known in Gayle as Builders