He was well-known for going around his parish on horseback. I'm not saying Jane married him for his money, but he left her the modern equivalent of around £150k, mostly in railway company shares, upon his death.
Photograph circa 1900 of the Rev. Cutfield Wardroper, incumbent at Farnley Tyas for 51 years, and his fourth wife Jane McGeoch whom he married when he was a sprightly 86 and she was young enough to be his granddaughter. Died 1905 and reportedly buried in a wicker coffin that he'd had commissioned.
An old photograph of a family looking rather glum.
I suspect the rest of the family wanted to go on holiday to Tenerife, but father overruled them #Scarborough
(I also like to tell stiles how stylish they are when out walking)
I guess that's a good sign
*pats sign*
"No disco dancing on the ramparts"
(the previous version of the same sheet looked like this)
Odd the things that give me pleasure, but it's great to see that NLS have made a much better quality version of the first series Yorkshire 246 six inch sheet available. Back when you could have a game of bowls before catching the train 😀
maps.nls.uk/view/266665654
Also, got to love the T&C that the generated content could "infringe someone else’s rights" but, that's OK, because you fully indemnify Microsoft from any claims that the rights holder may make against your use of the content that Microsoft generated 🤪
As per the official T&Cs on the Microsoft site, "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only [...] use Copilot at your own risk" 😜
www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...
😉 Well, I guess that would explain how Trump was miraculously able to regrow his ear after having it shot off 👂🔫
Or rather "had a cat's eye" as sadly I don't think it turned up when we sorted through his things (which is a shame)
My late dad knew Percy and visited him at his home, but sadly I don't know if the TV story was true or not! My dad has a cat's eye that Percy gave him which I think he used as a paper weight 😄
Wish I still had it, but used to have a huge book about urban myths and disinfo from the pre web era.
They'll enjoy this one too. 😛 Apparently sharing it with people gets comments about it hurting their eyes. Amazing resource though.
share.google/fZo777PWCamB...
Reposting this gem for any budding website designers out there looking for inspiration
Just researching a local WW2 record and wondered where in the UK "Sennen Cove" was. According to this website, it's somewhere in the late 1990s and next door to GeoCities 😁
sennen-cove.com
In case it's of use to anyone, here's the rest of that notice. A transcription is available here with links to individuals who've already been researched: huddersfield.exposed/s/78878
I suspect I'd have been puzzling for a bit longer if I hadn't stumbled across this newspaper notice which thankfully gave an address for Arthur.
I'd been puzzling over the Golcar war memorial inscription for "Arthur Ainsworth" for a while now, as no-one of that exact name is on CWGC or in local census records, etc. Turns out that poor Arthur was a victim of the 'Uddersfield dropped 'H'.
What to do if you live in the Colne Valley and the bombs start dropping. Please do not go sight seeing!
huddersfield.exposed/s/78873
The results of another Co-operative Society day in 1910.
"250 gallons of coffee and 3,600 buns ... were consumed by the children"
Photograph showing young girls cleaning spoons whilst lots of men look on. The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.
It's all kicking off over in Shat where the local Co-operative Society have got children competitively cleaning spoons as a "treat"🏆
This is appalling. Solidarity with Emily and all school librarians.
You could destroy organised religion from the inside ;-P
So for the "Amos Smith" CWGC entry, there's only this which matches the service number. I think when I was hunting for "Amos Smith"s there did seem to be another person with that name in the Newcastle area. Again, more questions than answers 😁
Cheers for spotting that! Not sure what to make of that, if he was indeed buried at Slaithwaite as per www.cwgc.org/find-records...
Fascinating although I think I'm even more confused now 😀
www.cwgc.org/find-records...
In other news, you can now find details of others who died on this day via the homepage:
huddersfield.exposed
The joy of having nothing but more questions rather than any answers 😜