Craven through the years

11:58am Friday 26th October 2007

100 years ago At a meeting of the West Riding Education Committee, a petition signed by 20 Cononley parents was presented, calling attention to the fact that there was only one elementary school in the township available for the education of their children - Cononley Church of England School. The petitioners said they wanted their children to be educated at a public elementary school provided by the local authority rather than the church.

Craven through the years

9:27am Friday 19th October 2007

100 years ago ELDERLY youths and men were kicking young children off their own playground. Skipton Urban Council was to investigate measures to stop land at the top of Raikes Road being misused. It emerged that a number of teenagers and men from other parts of the town were monopolising the area and telling children to leave.

Craven through the years

9:34am Friday 12th October 2007

100 years ago A memorial to the late Alderman Arthur Anderton was handed over to the villagers of Linton. It consisted of a reading room and institute, to be known as the Arthur Anderton Institute and Men's Reading Room. It had been erected by Mrs Anderton, of Linton Hall, in memory of her late husband.

Craven through the years

11:25am Friday 5th October 2007

100 years ago A CYCLIST visitor to High Bentham had the misfortune to run into a motor car near the Toll Bar, and was thrown off his bike. No-one seemed to be at fault, but the car owner handed the astonished cyclist 30s (£1.50) towards the repair of his machine.

Craven through the years

3:01pm Thursday 27th September 2007

100 years ago NEW soccer facilities in Skipton were expected to draw the crowds. Skipton United and Skipton Niffany Rovers had joined forces with the town's association team to provide the facilities.

Craven through the years

8:58am Friday 21st September 2007

100 years ago A group of lads from Barnoldswick appeared before Skipton Police Court charged with fruit pilfering. It was hoped the chairman's admonition, as well as the disgrace of standing in the prisoners' dock, would have a lasting impression on their minds. The Herald said it was time a similar course was taken in Skipton, where the systematic stripping of fruit trees went on daily.

Craven through the years

9:42am Friday 14th September 2007

100 years ago FORTUNE in the shape of an ideal day smiled on the Craven Agricultural Society's 53rd annual show, which was held in the usual field off the Bailey, adjacent to Skipton Castle. Hampered by severe debts, which at the beginning of the year totalled £300, the society never stood more in need of favourable weather.

Craven through the years

8:14am Friday 7th September 2007

100 years ago BARNOLDSWICK Education sub-committee heard at the monthly meeting that school attendance for August had been had been very poor. This was largely owing to the prevalence of whooping cough among infants at the schools. The harvest also meant many children had been absent on the last days of term. More than three hundred absences from Barnoldswick schools meant they would lose £3 and eight shillings of their Government grant.

Craven through the years

9:05am Friday 31st August 2007

100 Years Ago CARS churning up dust on streets were a source of great concern. So when the council sprayed a black coat of tar on the High Street and adjacent thoroughfares, it was hoped that this would solve the matter. Wrong. The tar spray played havoc with many unsuspecting pedestrians who found their legs slipping from beneath them. The people who were worst hit were the publicans, whose best floor coverings were bespattered with the solution from the soles of the many customers.

Craven through the years

9:07am Friday 24th August 2007

100 years ago SKIPTON Rural District Council applied to borrow £2,850 for the purposes of sewerage in Cononley and certain works in Farnhill. At the last inquiry in November 1901, objections were made to the works being in close proximity to dwelling houses of considerable value.

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