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MEMORY LANE: Five gallons of ale help toast new machine at Craven mill
Robin Longbottom examines the construction of a new spinning frame – and how mill workers and bosses celebrated its completion ON Thursday, September 13, 1832, John Hartley – a worsted spinner of Greenroyd Mill, Sutton-in-Craven – bought five gallons
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Nostalgia - the tragic loss of 12 Barlickers on the SS Rohilla
IN the early years of the First World War, the hospital ship SS Rohilla ran aground near Whitby. Amongst the 83 who died, there were 12 from Barnoldswick. In his second feature on the tragedy, Alan Roberts focuses on letters home from Walter Horsfield
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PC in tribute to those who tried to save the life of 3-peaks walker
A MEMBER of Cleveland Police has spoken of how he and several others tried to rescue the life of a man who collapsed and died close to the summit of Penyghent. PC Dom Taylor, who was off-duty, was part of a group doing a charity walk for the Yorkshire
