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Cowling's Local History Group

Cowling's Local History Group

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    • 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.

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    Donna Peters Gallery Uncategorized 

    Donna Peters Gallery

    May 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Mark Barnes Donna Peters, Gill Bottom Mill, Laycocks
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    Monthly Reports News Uncategorized 

    Mark Wilson, ex Cowlingweb,Skiptonweb

    May 18, 2020May 18, 2020 Mark Barnes Mark Wilson, Moonrakers

    We are very sad to hear of the death of Mark Wilson (1969 -2020). Mark had been unwell for a

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    Textiles Uncategorized 

    Gill Bottom Mill Fire 1870

    May 15, 2020May 16, 2020 Mark Barnes Gill Bottom Mill, Gott, Keighley Fire Engine, Laycock, mill Fire, Textiles

    Report taken from Keighley News 3rd December 1870. About a quarter to five on Wednesday morning Gill Bottom Mill, Cowling,

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    Farming Uncategorized 

    Farm Sale in 1789 at White Bear, Glusburn

    January 30, 2020January 30, 2020 Mark Barnes Gragside, Rakes, Summerhouse, Thornsfield, Westfield
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    Monthly Reports Uncategorized 

    Shops and Small Business Research Begins

    January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Mark Barnes small businesses

    The main item at our November meeting was to commence work on researching the various shops and small businesses that

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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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    Daniel Binns Ickornshaw People Uncategorized 

    Daniel Binns Artist

    October 7, 2019October 9, 2019 Michael Green Cowling, Dalesman, Daniel Binns, Moonrakers, Paintings, watercolours

    Daniel Binns, Cowling’s famous water colour artist of the 20th century was described by his son David as “ A

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    Links to other sites.

    September 26, 2019September 26, 2019 Michael Green

    This link takes you to the Airedale and Wharfedale Family History Site this site is not affiliated with Moonrakers Local

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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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    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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    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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