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An A3 board which will be on a lamp post in Oakworth for International Women's Day 2026. It has a green border and the title 'International Women's Day Trail' in purple lettering. It features information about Nesta Hoyle, who was a Land Army girl in the second world war and a QR code box printed on it can be scanned for more information. There are seven similar boards on lamp posts around Oakworth village.
On #InternationalWomensDay we feature eight local women who served in wartime as Land Army girls, nurses, ambulance drivers and for the YMCA abroad. The boards will be up around #Oakworth for a month and their stories are here:
menofworth.org.uk/womens-day/
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Looking forward to seeing this #International Women's Day trail come to fruition!
#IWD #Oakworth
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This image is of the Roe family grave at Slack Lane Baptist Church graveyard. It is in poor condition and is laid flat on the grass. The carved inscription reads as follows: In Loving Remembrance of Sally, Wife of Leonard Roe of Providence, Who Died October 9th 1885, In Her 33rd Year. Also of Fanny, Daughter of The Above Leonard & Grace Roe Who Died Jan. 14th 1899 Aged 7 Weeks. Also of Lance Cpl William Roe Who Was Killed In Action in France Jan. 17th 1917 in His 20th Year. Ever Remembered. Also of Harry, Son of Thomas & Elsie Roe Who Died May 24th 1918, Aged 3 Months. Also of Grace Wife of Leonard Roe, Who Died Sept. 21st 1921 Aged 62 Years. Also of the Above Leonard Roe Who Died Nov. 28th 1927, Aged 73 Years.
The Roe family grave at Slack Lane Baptist Church graveyard bears the following inscription to William Roe: Also of Lance Cpl William Roe Who Was Killed In Action in France Jan. 17th 1917, in His 20th Year. Ever Remembered.
A newspaper photo of the head and shoulders of a British Army soldier from the Great War period. He's wearing an Army uniform and cap and the cap badge is that of the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment. The photo caption reads: Private Roe, of Oakworth - killed.
Private William Roe's family headstone which is at Slack Lane #graveyard in #Oakworth. There's an inscription to him, but of course he's not buried here, he's in France.
Read his story and the strange similarity with Private George Roe, who was not even related to him!
menofworth.org.uk/william-roe/
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HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were sunk on this day in 1941. One man who survived was P. O. Robert Silcock of #Oakworth, who was later killed in the fall of #Singapore. You can read his story, he was present at some very notable dates in naval history: https://menofworth.org.uk/robert-silcock/
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A big pile of white A3 size lamppost display boards in the back of a minibus.
A lamppost affixed with an A3 size display board which tells the story of a local man who died in the First World War. It’s near his house.
We’ll that’s all the #Oakworth #Remembrance Trail boards down. Just got to clean them and get them packed away. At least three seem to have been stolen from the lampposts?
www.menofworth.org.uk/trail
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Good to hear you're better!
Cecil Knight, one of our #Oakworth Remembrance Trail men died when his Avro Anson flew into the side of a mountain in Snowdonia during a night navigation exercise:
menofworth.org.uk/cecil-knight/
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An A3 size plastic board fixed to a lamp post. It is part of our Oakworth Remembrance Trail which has placed 96 boards near to the former homes of men who were killed in the First and Second World Wars. They will be up for the whole of November 2025. This is at Elmwood Terrace.
An A3 size plastic board fixed to a lamp post. It is part of our Oakworth Remembrance Trail which has placed 96 boards near to the former homes of men who were killed in the First and Second World Wars. They will be up for the whole of November 2025. This is at Commercial Street.
An A3 size plastic board fixed to a lamp post. It is part of our Oakworth Remembrance Trail which has placed 96 boards near to the former homes of men who were killed in the First and Second World Wars. They will be up for the whole of November 2025. This is at Oakworth Hall.
An A3 size plastic board fixed to a lamp post. It is part of our Oakworth Remembrance Trail which has placed 96 boards near to the former homes of men who were killed in the First and Second World Wars. They will be up for the whole of November 2025. This is at Oakworth Hall.
Here’s a few of our #Oakworth #Remembrance Trail information boards about local men who died in the First and Second World Wars, placed near to their former homes during the Remembrance period. They will be up until the end of November.
More here: www.menofworth.org.uk/trail
#FWW #SWW #WW1 #WW2
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Dockroyd Graveyard in #Oakworth is just along the road from me and the Trust members have done some amazing work both restoring the graveyards itself (with a huge amount of local support) and publishing their research on the people who are buried there:
www.dockroydgraveyardtrust.org.uk
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Seven out of the eight adult volunteers who came out to install the 96 Oakworth Remembrance Trail Boards on Thursday 30th October 2025. Each volunteer is holding a white A3 sized correx board printed with details of a serviceman who died in either the First or the Second World Wars, which will go on to lamp-posts near their homes from before they enlisted. Behind this group is a large laurel hedge and a drystone wall.
A man is standing in front of a stage in a village hall and he is holding a clipboard. He is talking to a large group of people seated on several rows of chairs, many of whom are Army Cadets and Sea Cadets in uniform. Nobody has fallen asleep, yet...
Yesterday we launched our #Oakworth #Remembrance #Trail. We installed 96 boards on lamp-posts around our village, next to, or close to the homes of the Oakworth men who died in the first and second world wars. A QR Code guides visitors to their biographies on our website:
www.menofworth.org.uk/trail
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A coloured drawing of a Vickers Wellington Bomber mark 3 it’s cutaways showing some of the inside areas.
A coloured map of England showing the route taken by a Wellington Bomber on the evening of its fatal crash in Yorkshire.
Six Canadian crew member’s photographs of Wellington Bomber BK387. They are all in their Royal Canadian Air Force uniforms and their names are Glass, McHenry, Henfrey, Dalling, Crawford and Savage.
For #Keighley #WalkingFestival today I’m taking a group to the #Oakworth crash site of Wellington BK387 where 6 Canadian airmen died 2/1/1944.
I’ll be sharing witness accounts and showing the twisted trees in Tewitt Hall Wood. #WW2 #SWW
menofworth.org.uk/memorials/canadianmemori...
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Tonight's Yoga for Runners Classes
6:30pm - Oakworth | 7:30pm - Zoom | Recoring available after the online class
Sign up 👉 yoga-for-runners.sumupstore.com
#yogaforrunners #oakworth #onlineyoga #prehabnotrehab
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A newspaper cutting about William and George Roe: Keighley News report: OAKWORTH. “THE LONG ARM OF COINCIDENCE.” The “Long arm of coincidence” has seldom stretched further during the war than in the case of two soldiers names Roe – one, Will Roe, of Bogthorn, Oakworth; the other, George Roe, of White Lea, Heckmondwike. They had no traceable relationship, both were 20 years of age, both worked for a cooperative society; joined the colours on the same day, were drafted to the same regiment, became chums, received their lance-corporal stripe on the same day, were buried by the same shell on one occasion, and met their death at the same moment by another shell last month.
A 1917 newspaper picture of a British soldier in uniform, he is wearing a service cap with the badge of the West Yorkshire Regiment.
A 1917 newspaper picture of a British soldier in uniform, he is wearing a service cap with the badge of the West Yorkshire Regiment.
The Long Arm of Coincidence!
William Roe of #Oakworth & George Roe of Heckmondwike. A strange coincidence, 2 unrelated men, joined up/served/promoted together, killed in action in the same shell explosion. #FWW #WW1
Read their stories:
menofworth.org.uk/william-roe/
menofworth.org.uk/george-roe/
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A newspaper photograph of a man wearing Army uniform and the badge of the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment on his cap. He had a wide waxed moustache.
A dark wood frame enclosing a polished white marble plaque which has 13 names in black lettering. It reads: In Memory of the men connected with this church who made the supreme sacrifice in the Great War. 1914 - 1918. Ellis Bailey Horatio Claughton Frank Clayton Fred Coates Betie Colledge George H. Earnshaw Arthur Hutchinson Harry Jowett Harry Mitchell Luther J. Murgatroyd Sam Schofield Walter Wagstaff George G. F. Wane "Greater love hath no man than this."
Just added the story to our blog, of Private Fred Coates:
menofworth.org.uk/fred-coates/
Born in #Oakworth and lived in #Cross-Roads / Lees, Fred was a gardener and had worked for the Lord Mayor of Leeds before the war.
He died of wounds in Sept 1917 and left a widow and two children. #FWW #WW1
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A Royal Navy seaman in uniform standing on a hill overlooking fields and boundary walls. A cat is standing at his feet.
Just added the story of Seaman George Sanderson from #Oakworth, who was killed in #WW2 during the sinking of #HMSDaring on 18th February 1940. We have included a transcribed letter George wrote home in 1939:
menofworth.org.uk/george-sande...
#SecondWorldWar #SWW
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A black and white photograph of a Royal Navy stoker wearing his tropical dress uniform which is white with navy blue trimmings. On his arm is a badge of a Leading Stoker which is a three bladed propellor with a single star above it.
A grey slate stone mounted on top of a low wall surrounding a garden. It bears the name ROBERT SILCOCK in black lettering.
On #VJDay80 we share the story of Petty Officer Mechanician Robert Silcock of Oakworth, who was killed when a Japanese cruiser shelled HM Tug Yin Ping, in which he was trying to escape the Fall of Singapore on 5th Feb 1942.
menofworth.org.uk/robert-silco...
He is remembered here in #Oakworth.
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Start the week well with our Monday evening Yoga for Runners Class (online / Oakworth)
Get a taster of the class on the YfR Patreon page - patreon.com/YogaforRunners -
We also have a mid-week pick-me-up and outdoor yoga
yoga-for-runners.sumupstore.com
#yogaforrunners #oakworth #outdooryoga
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Latest post on our blog is local elementary school teacher Percy Hollings from #Oakworth, who was a Sergeant in 286th Siege Battery, overwhelmed by the German Spring Offensive of 1918:
menofworth.org.uk/percy-hollin...
He'll be part of our Oakworth Remembrance trail in October this year. #FWW #WW1
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Check out the August Newsletter: yogamovementmassage.co.uk/2025/08/03/a...
For Class info & to sign up go to -
yoga-for-runners.sumupstore.com
Subscribe on Patreon - patreon.com/YogaforRunners
#yogaforrunners #oakworth #onlineyoga
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Wooded area, three trees growing from the same spot, one trunk growing straight up, the two either side growing outwards at virtually the same angles
In the woods above #Holdenpark #Oakworth
Been stomping around again, especially due to the recent diabetes diagnosis 😳
Balls to it!
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Yoga for Runners Classes Tonight:
In-person - 6:30pm at Oakworth Methodist Church
Online - 7:30pm on Zoom
yoga-for-runners.sumupstore.com
#yoga #yogaforrunners #oakworth #onlineyoga
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A pair of blue gazebos in a field with a feather banner at either side. The name on the front says: 'The Men of Worth Project.'
A brown chicken standing on a lawn in a garden. There are stone steps on the left side and blue pots at the back.
It's the #Oakworth Gala this Saturday and we'll be there with our stand, showing displays about the villagers who served in both World Wars. #FWW #WW1 #SWW #WW2.
Might bring Grizzelda the chicken along if she doesn't stop coming into our garden!
menofworth.org.uk/archives/oak...
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Check out the July Newsletter 👉 yogamovementmassage.co.uk/2025/06/23/j...
There's lots of good stuff happening... A new in-person #yoga for runners class in Oakworth, more outdoor yoga, mini yoga videos on patreon and events in #HebdenBridge and #Haworth.
#retreat #yogaforrunners #oakworth
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A British Army Soldier from the Great War period. This is a poor quality newspaper image on Private Richard Baker who died from gas poisoning on August 1916. He's wearing a 'gorblimey' hat with the badge of the East Lancashire Regiment.
Our latest addition to the blog is the story of Private Richard Baker of Oldfield near #Oakworth, who died on 9th August 1916, as a result of a gas attack at the Yser Canal during a relief period:
menofworth.org.uk/richard-baker/
Richard was a farm hand before enlisting.
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Watch: Bahamas steam locomotive in action on Yorkshire railway www.railadvent.co.uk/2025/01/watch-bahamas-st... #damems #haworth #ingrow #IngrowWest #keighley #KeighleyAndWorthValleyRailway #oakworth #oxenhope #valley #video
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Great picture - steam, snow and gaslights #Oakworth
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A coloured map of the central section of England, showing the flight path of the Wellington Bomber from RAF Ossington and eventually ending up crashing near Oakworth in Yorkshire. It has blue lines denoting the intended flight path with red lines where it went off course.
I was honoured on Monday #ArmisticeDay, to accompany a local school to a #WW2 #WellingtonBomber memorial to the six #Canadian Crew members, near my home village of #Oakworth in West Yorkshire:
www.menofworth.org.uk/research/oak...
The children were very interested and asked loads of questions.
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