SCOUT or SCOTE HALL, Shibden near Halifax

[leg1ndyoll]

There is a page on Facebook that may interest you http://www.facebook.com/groups/savescouthall/?notif_t=group_activity

[Keith Sherwood]

Leg1ndyoll,
Managed to log onto my daughter's account, and was very impressed by the conversations and pictures on there.  Maybe Facebook does have its usefulness after all - and some of those internal pictures took a bit of courage to take with the building in such a precarious state!
many thanks, keith

[leg1ndyoll]

Glad to be of help Keith

[Jonathan Lowe]

I am a direct descendant of the original family who built Scouts Hall, Shibden. I've just joined this site, have no idea how to use it or join this conversation. Anyone with this interest, I'd be quite happy to share what I know about my family home in Shibden. Thanks in advance. Jonathan

[Calverley Lad]

Hi and welcome Jonathan.
Once you have made 3 posts here the personal message system is open to you.
Be aware though, posting personal e mail addresses is frowned upon.
[We don't want unsolicited e mails do we]
 Regards Brian

[Keith Sherwood]

So, Jonathan, as Calverley Lad says, you need to go through the process of posting another two times on here before we can use the facility of the Personal Message, and that way exchange e-mail addresses in a more discreet way.  Just a couple of short acknowledgements to both Calverley Lad and myself should do the trick.
Or you could expand a little on here.  Whatever you do, I'm VERY excited about what you may have to tell us about Scote/Scout Hall and what exactly went on there in the early days, and why it should have been as a named place of baptism.
And welcome to Rootschat, by the way!
Regards, Keith

[Jonathan Lowe]

Thank you for your replies, Brian and Keith. First of all I'll need to find notes from parents who visited Scout several years back, possibly as many as ten years ago. In those notes, composed as a short story of what they know about the history, is also a record of their experiences at the calendar house. The notes are put away some where, I'll need to find where I filed them. That might take a day or so. Also I was informed by a friend in Leeds that the house was up for sale about five years ago. I looked into purchasing it, it was £500,000 at the time when I got the quote from the realtor. That was for both the house and property. Due to the extensive fire damage, I was unable to make a reasonable offer. I will write again soon as I'm interested in why you are interested in this old home. All the best, Jonathan Lowe.

[Keith Sherwood]

Jonathan,
Looking forward to hearing from you again soon...and I think that we have all posted on this thread our own particular reasons for being interested in this fascinating building, at one time or another since I started the thread all of nearly 8 years ago.  And look at the number of times it has been viewed in the meantime, climbing up to the twelve thousand mark!
Regards, keith

[Jonathan Lowe]

Keith,
The first thing you might want to know us that my ancestors name was Stancliffe, she was married to Mitchell, forgetting flirts name, maybe John? At any rate he was a merchant and eventually went mad and supposedly jumped from the top of the nearby quarry and died sometime later. He in fact was crazy for sometime. I've also found out that my mother has some hand written history from a Mr. Chew who showed Scout Hall to my parents when they visited. The wife, Stancliffe, later moved to America to the state of Connecticut. I'll probably pick up the notes from my parents this weekend. Also my mother contributed to a book outlining the entire genealogy of the Stancliffe family. I don't know if you would be interested in getting a copy of that. I'm sure I could find out where a copy might be obtained. Also the original land was obtained very early from a grant from King Charles I, I'll need to check that, but these are the sort of details I can easily obtain.

 Jon Lowe