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Cowling's Local History Group

Cowling's Local History Group

  • About
    • Introduction
  • News
    • Monthly Reports
    • Meeting Dates
  • Archive
  • Leisure
    • Hitchinstone Poem.
    • HARD TIMES RECALLED A WORTHY COWLING OCTOGENARIA
    • Coronation
    • Gala
    • Songs of Cowling
  • People
    • Daniel Binns
      • Daniel Binns Artist
    • Philip Snowden
    • Alfred Teal
  • Areas
    • Wainman’s Pinnacle
    • Broughton Hall
    • Ickornshaw
    • Stott Hill
  • Work
    • Road
    • Transport
    • John Binns & Sons Ltd
    • Poulty
    • Shops
    • Textiles
  • Education
    • Cowling County Primary School WW11 Log Book
  • Gallery
    • Areas Gallery
      • Cowling
      • Ickornshaw
      • Stott Hill
      • Hitching Stone Gallery
      • Carr Head
      • Wainmans Pinacle Gallery
      • Lund Tower Gallery
    • People Gallery
      • World War One Casualties
      • Daniel Binns Gallery
      • Donna Peters Gallery
      • Phillip Snowden
    • Work Gallery
      • Farming
      • Mills
      • Shops Gallery
    • Leisure Gallery
      • Coronation
      • Gala
      • Public Houses
      • Amateur Dramatics Gallery
    • Transport
    • Archive Gallery
  • Places of faith
    • St Andrews Church
    • Bar Chapel
    • Cowling Hill Baptist Chapel
    • Holy Trinity Church
  • Links to other sites.

Author: Mark Barnes

Daniel Binns Monthly Reports 

Daniel Binns – Life Story of an Artist.

January 22, 2020January 22, 2020 Mark Barnes cricket, Daniel Binns

Fans of the late Daniel Binns, famous 20th century Cowling born artist can now read a new life story on

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Monthly Reports Uncategorized 

Knoll Hill Visit, Pen & Ink Drawings.

January 22, 2020January 22, 2020 Mark Barnes

Our last summer outside meeting was on an unusually dry evening in August. The Riley family of Knoll Hill were

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Monthly Reports 

Enclosure Act Date, First Member’s Talk

January 22, 2020January 22, 2020 Mark Barnes Enclosure, Ridge Mill

The June meeting was outside, at Ridge Mill Bridge and area. This was mainly to look at how the course

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Areas Ickornshaw Uncategorized 

The Emmotts of Revel Knoll

June 11, 2019June 11, 2019 Mark Barnes Cowling, Emmotts, Moonrakers

A Key figure in this history of the Emmotts of Revel Knoll is James Emmott who was born at Wilsden

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Broughton Hall Leisure 

The Broughton Hall Affray of 1859

May 29, 2019May 29, 2019 Mark Barnes

The following  is an excerpt from a local paper describing the story of the infamous ‘Broughton Hall Affray’ of 1859

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Ickornshaw Textiles Work 

Ickornshaw 1800, Conditions of Work

May 28, 2019May 28, 2019 Mark Barnes Cowling, Ickornshaw, Moonrakers

The evidence relating to Ickornshaw Mill given on June 2nd 1832 before the Committee of the House of Commons on

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People Philip Snowden 

Philip Snowden – The Proudest Day of My Life.

May 28, 2019May 28, 2019 Mark Barnes Cowling, Moonrakers, Philip Snowden

The proudest day of my life was not when I attended my first Budget, but a month later when I

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Monthly Reports Textiles Uncategorized 

Early Textile Information Needed

May 28, 2019May 28, 2019 Mark Barnes Cowling, Moonrakers

At our May meeting members heard about the progress made in compiling a book of our WW1 research, which will

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Monthly Reports 

Lots of New Developments

May 28, 2019May 28, 2019 Mark Barnes Cowling, jobs, Moonrakers

March and April saw the programme for 2019/20 developed.  Two projects have been planned, two outside meetings in June and

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Areas Uncategorized Wainman's Pinnacle 

Tow’d Pinnacle – Poem by Jacob Rigg, Keighley

May 22, 2019February 19, 2020 Mark Barnes Cowling, Moonrakers, Wainman's Pinnacle

It wor nobbud a pile a stones Built on a jutting rock; It faced all weathers around, And stood rude

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Cowling Village Ezra Laycock People Road Transport Work 

The First Motor Bus in Yorkshire

January 20, 2021January 20, 2021 Mark Barnes

Below is an extract from the small booklet First Bus in Yorkshire by Philip Lingard (1975) It covers the text

Donna Peters Gallery Uncategorized 

Donna Peters Gallery

May 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Mark Barnes
Mark Wilson, ex Cowlingweb,Skiptonweb
Monthly Reports News Uncategorized 

Mark Wilson, ex Cowlingweb,Skiptonweb

May 18, 2020May 18, 2020 Mark Barnes
Gill Bottom Mill Fire 1870
Textiles Uncategorized 

Gill Bottom Mill Fire 1870

May 15, 2020May 16, 2020 Mark Barnes

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