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The Common Room / Re: Will RootsChat be of help to you?
« on: Wednesday 23 April 08 02:47 BST (UK)  »
I'm happy I found this site too.  There are so many helpful people out there.  And it's nice to know you're not the only one who gets excited about finding dead people! :)

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The Common Room / Re: What Country is your research ?
« on: Friday 18 April 08 13:18 BST (UK)  »
It's the Wars of the Roses in my family.  Yorkshire and Lancashire.  I think Yorkshire won. ;)


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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: 1st railway in Bradford. When?Where to?
« on: Thursday 13 March 08 22:48 GMT (UK)  »
The line did stop at Shipley - at least according to Wikipedia  ;).  The great George Stephenson was in charge.  Here's the link - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds_and_Bradford_Railway

I've looked further and some of the stations in use then (Apperley Bridge and Kirkstall Forge), closed in 1965 by orders of Dr Beecham, are being re-opened in 2011.

Good to know you've been able to connect things with your family.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: 1st railway in Bradford. When?Where to?
« on: Thursday 13 March 08 06:29 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry Charlotte, it wasn't a book, just a website.

www.ilkley.org/iguide/hist.htm

However, I do know there is a book called Pre Victorian Ilkley, by May F Pickles (don't know the date of publishing, sorry).


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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: 1st railway in Bradford. When?Where to?
« on: Thursday 13 March 08 02:09 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Charlotte

According to 'Ikley Through Time', the Midland and North Eastern Companies opened a line linking Ilkley to Leeds and Bradford on August 1st 1865.

Bradfords first railway (Leeds and Braford railway) was opened July 1st 1846.  The trains ran between Leeds and Bradford initially, with connections from Leeds to London.


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Occupation Interests / Re: stuff warehouseman
« on: Tuesday 11 March 08 23:41 GMT (UK)  »
Ok, after some more research, I have now found out that for the textile industry in the West Riding, the flax was grown in Ireland, shipped over to England and kept in warehouses in Bradford for weaving here.

It's all been fascinating finding all this out, particularly the stuffed gownsmen becoming silks. 


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Occupation Interests / Re: stuff warehouseman
« on: Monday 10 March 08 23:25 GMT (UK)  »
Charlotte,
I've had a look but can only find it grown in northern Europe, nothing more specific.  Presumably it would have been grown locally but no idea's as to where.

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Occupation Interests / Re: stuff warehouseman
« on: Saturday 08 March 08 20:45 GMT (UK)  »
Well Jo, just to further your interest, stuff weavers also dealt with silk -
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Stuff
[stuffyn; stuffe; stufe; stuf]
A term with a variety of meanings and usages. In the Dictionary Archive it appears primarily as a TEXTILE being the general term for WORSTEDS, but particularly those made from mixed fibres, usually worsted and SILK,
From: 'Strainer - Stuffer', Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities, 1550-1820 (2007). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=58887. Date accessed: 08 March 2008.

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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Re: Where did she go?
« on: Saturday 08 March 08 20:26 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Clive, that was very kind of you. 


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