Birstall or Birkenshaw?

[UNDERTAKER]

related to the Ellisons of Haifax but believe the cleckheaton branch came from queensbury or bingley. Bingley lot were related to the family which owned fox's biscuits. don't know where the queensbury ones came from. halifax one's may have had some links to newcastle. in terms of threelands the old ambulance station you can get some details regarding what it looked like on old maps or on things called goad plans from local planning office.


T. 

[kaz1056]

I recall Threelands as a care home, i visited people there as a mental health nurse in Dewsbury, i think it was closed pulled down and house built, it may have been a kirklees home?

[kaz1056]

Just remembered it was called threelands grange

[UNDERTAKER]

USED TO ASSIST A VALUER WHO DID BUSINESS RATES IN THE AREA BELIEVE IT'S AN INDUSTRIAL UNIT NOW IN CLECKHEATON AREA WHICH I BELIEVE FROM MEMORY ISN'T TOO FAR AWAY FROM BIRKENSHAW.



T.

[mmm45]

Drove past Birkenshaw last night theres a new housing development on the area where Threelands grange once stood.The new cul-de-sac is called Threelands.

Ady

[General Dogsbody]

There is a photo of Treelands taken in 2011 on  the Geograph web site

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2557326

[dobfarm]

Hi

One or more of the Bradford, Leeds, Dewsbury, Huddersfield & Halifax libraries will have old maps and maybe old photos of that area. Some libraries do free half hour look ups and copies of section of the maps also of photo's don't cost that much.

Dobby

[NGHIC]

Hi,

Just started to look into the Henry Ellison tar concern.  If anyone has gone there before can you please contact me.

Regards,

NGHIC

[dobfarm]

Hi

Welcome to Rootschat web site 

I'm not sure what your request really is about , as whether your doing Henry Ellison's Ancestry or The origins of the tar company

Here is a little bit about a Henry Ellison involved in tar concerns ? for others who may known more

YORKSHIRE TAR DISTILLERS - In 1886, Henry Ellison of Cleckheaton purchased four acres of land. This firm became known as Ellison & Mitchell Limited and distilled tar. In 1927, the important tar distillers amalgamated to form the Yorkshire Tar Distillers Limited. The Kilnhurst works expanded from four acres to thirty acres and a quantity of tar being distilled increased by five times. In later years the company was acquired by Croda and operated until circa 2000.

http://mollekin.net/swintonpeople/page/10/work-places