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Change:waitingwaiting-room room window. One of the problems, even though the houses were really nice with three bedrooms, two toilets, central heating and good-sized rooms and gardens,
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Medieval times
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Aug 9 2007, 5:25 AM EDT |
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Change:rangedforaged on the common meadows. West of Cottingley ranged a large forest, later called Farnley Wood. To the east of Cottingley farm, in a valley
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Aug 8 2007, 11:41 AM EDT |
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Change:farm, Beeston. The aspect of Cottingley Hall facing south was not only marred by the new railway embankments but by smokey Millshaw mills, open coal pits and quarrying and surrounding poorly erected cottages.The 1851 census is the first to give details
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Aug 8 2007, 11:41 AM EDT |
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Change:and below Windmill Hill an Crow Nest farm. The aspect of Cottingley Hall facing south was not only marred by the new railway embankments but by smokey Millshaw mills, open coal pits and quarrying and surrounding poorly erected cottages.The 1851 census is the first
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Aug 8 2007, 11:34 AM EDT |
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Change:beck joined Millshaw beck. The farm was probably a single, stone barn-type building, with wood and reed out-buildings and it was part of Beeston Manor which
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Aug 8 2007, 11:31 AM EDT |
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Change:Cottingley, which stands above Morley (Millshaw) beck. The farm was probably a single, stone barn-type building, with wood and reed out-buildings and it was part of Beeston Manor
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Aug 8 2007, 8:41 AM EDT |
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Change:through Beeston Near Royds, on farmfields and waste land between Cottingley Drive north and Gelderd Road leaving a single field and barn at the side of the cemetry (Now a garage, B&Q and retail units).In the late 1980's, commercial buildings began to
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Aug 8 2007, 8:39 AM EDT |
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Change:1979.1979/80. In 1973, the M621 motorway was built on farmfields and waste land between Cottingley Drive north and Gelderd Road leaving a single field and barn at the side of the cemetry (Now a garage, B&Q and retail units).In the late 1980's, commercial
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1923 Churwell Tram Crash at Cottingley
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Aug 8 2007, 8:34 AM EDT |
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Change:(nee Sandcraft) of Cottingley had heard how "passengers panicked and released the failing brake"."When the tram ran away down Churwell Hill, it ended up through the wall opposite where we lived. My mother was a witness and first at the scene helping the injured", added Mrs W. Thompson.Thompson
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Cottingley Farm fields
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Aug 8 2007, 8:32 AM EDT |
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Change:of Cottingley added this tribute, "there were cows and sheep, green fields all around with stone walls seperating the fields. It was beautiful in summer, cornfields one could see for miles".This idylic picture was confirmed by Mrs Ingham of Cottingley, "we would help in the
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Aug 8 2007, 8:31 AM EDT |
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Change:W. Thompson (nee Bollen) of Moortown."The cottages were occupied in my time by either farm labourers named Coggins or Tupplings. The cottages were demolished approx. the time of the farmhouse and buildings", wrote Mr C. Woods of South Milford.Mrs Lily Atkinson of Barwick-in-Elmete did not recall
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Aug 7 2007, 6:38 PM EDT |
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Change:1750 onwards, common land being used by anybody, came under private ownership, plus many ordinary people could not afford to build walls around their little bit of land andaccording soto the new laws. So it was sold to rich farmers and theirlandowners, the poor people's little
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Aug 7 2007, 6:30 PM EDT |
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Change:could be constructed and repaired to help the developing woollen industry. A toll was paid to use the road, there was a Beeston toll-bar on Elland
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Aug 7 2007, 7:53 AM EDT |
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Change: private houses has been built adjacent to the school fields.There is little that remains of 'Old CottingleyCottingley' except the trees beyond the rooftops in this photo which are claimed to be original trees from Cottingley Hall walled garden.
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Aug 7 2007, 7:52 AM EDT |
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Change:rooms. Close byby, a small Barret estate of private houses has been built adjacent to the school fields.There is little that remains of 'Old Cottingley except the trees beyond the rooftops in this photo which are claimed to be original trees from Cottingley Hall walled garden.
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Aug 7 2007, 7:51 AM EDT |
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Change:factoryfactory, onbelow BeestonCrow RingNest Road.farm. Further warehousing development took place as Millshaw small industrial units and farm cottages were cleared to construct Millshaw Industrial Park, filling in land from theBeeston Ring Road up to the Churwell railway
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Aug 7 2007, 7:49 AM EDT |
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Change:be built either side of the area,Ring Road, Millshaw beck below the London linerailwayline footbridge was covered over and Sulzers built their engineering factory on Beeston Ring Road. Further warehousing development took place as Millshaw small indutrialindustrial units and farm cottages were
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Aug 7 2007, 7:40 AM EDT |
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Change:There were only format changes (bold, italics, etc.) in this version. See this version for details.
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Aug 7 2007, 7:39 AM EDT |
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Change:CemertyCemetry for Leeds on Estate of Historic Cottingley Hall A portion of the old Cottingley Hall Esate between Leeds and Morley is to be consecrated as a cemetry on
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Aug 7 2007, 7:36 AM EDT |
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Change:in the farmhouse. We remember the baby being born in the house. theThe tram crash had happened just before we moved in, we saw where the stone wall at the bottom of our field had been rebuilt".
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