10:10am Saturday 23rd January 2010
Tenders were invited for providing and laying about 1,400 yards of three-inch cast iron pipes, for the construction of a small service reservoir at Conistone. Plans and specifications could be seen on application to the council’s engineer, from whom a schedule of quantities could be had on payment of two guineas. Sealed tenders, endorsed by Conistone Water, had to reach the office by February 4, 1910. The lowest tender would not necessarily be accepted.
Mr Clough, the Radical candidate, visited Silsden and spoke to a crowded audience. One member of the public asked whether Mr Clough’s father had turned to Tariff Reform. Mr Clough replied that he had already been asked that question and it did no credit to the “gentlemanly party”. He said Free Trade had done well for his father and that in his old age he was not likely to be influenced by “tariff tinkering Tom Fools, madmen, idiots and tariff reforming lunatics”.
The reading room in connection with the free library in Skipton was almost completed and would open the following week. All the fittings, such as reading aisles – three for males and two lesser ones for females – and racks for periodicals, had been supplied by Messrs TA Procter and Sons, Cabinet Makers, Skipton. The formal opening of the library would not take place until the completion of the lending department.
Five people lost their lives and nine were injured when an express passenger train travelling from Glasgow St Enoch to London St Pancras was in collision with an express goods train travelling from Hunslet to Carlisle. The collision occurred about half a mile north of Settle Railway Station. It is believed that the engine of the goods train became derailed and collided with several coaches of the passenger train.
There had been welcome news for old people living in Craven with the announcement that West Riding County Council had approved an estimate of £42,100 for the building of an aged persons home in Neville Road, Gargrave. It would be a new building of two storeys with a lift to the second floor. There would be accommodation for 35 people and in charge would be a superintendent and matron.
The need for a general store for the 300 or more residents of the Cammock Lane area of Settle, who at present had to walk between 300 yards and 800 yards to the shops in the centre of Settle, was emphasised at a planning inquiry. A petition of 120 names was presented in favour of a shop.
A £1 million redevelopment scheme at Castleberg Hospital, Giggleswick, was completed. The final phase – the refurbishment of the Craven Ward – was unveiled by the chairman of Airedale Health Authority, John Stanley Bell. He said the £1 million had been well spent and Castleberg was now second to none in the country.
A Stainforth family had uncovered a mysterious coffin-like vessel while renovating the inside of their listed home. Michael and Tricia Johnson were pulling off part of the damp course at the bottom of the stairs when they came across a six-foot-long stone trough set into the wall. Local historian Thomas Lord had looked at the artefact and thought it was an 11th century coffin.
Appletreewick’s headline-hitting landlord John Showers was considering giving away his no-smoking pub. The 80-year-old was looking at handing over the New Inn to someone who shared his hatred of smoking and would be prepared to offer lodgings to himself and his partner, 68-year-old Eve Braithwaite. He had already approached Texan millionaire Lyndon Sanders, who owned a 134-bedroom hotel in Dallas and imposed a $100 fine on guests caught smoking.
Skipton secured funding for a CCTV system for the town. The Home Office had awarded £128,000 towards the seven-camera scheme, which was estimated to cost £168,000. Mick Cartledge, Craven District Council’s economic and community development officer, said the scheme was much-needed and should be in place in September. The news was tinged with sadness, however, as it coincided with the death of leading CCTV campaigner Janet Gott.
Author and historian Arthur Raistrick was named Dalesmen of the Millennium by the Yorkshire Dales Society. Dr Raistrick had lived in Linton until his death in 1991. Society chairman Colin Speakman said: “He was a remarkable individual who, more than any other, helped us to understand some of the many processes that had shaped the Yorkshire Dales.”
Craven Crime Prevention Panel met for the last time. Members decided to disband to allow them to consider the wider issue of community safety. The panel was set up in 1989 to solve local crime problems and increase awareness of social responsibility. But, the Government had recently set up community safety partnerships to reduce crime and the fear of crime.
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