Hiram Lamb was the son of Joseph Lamb. Joseph was born c1841 in Lindley near Harrogate. He married Priscilla Davy 8 January 1868 at All Saints Otley. In 1871 they were living in Lindley were Joseph was an agricultural labourer.

Hiram was born 12 June 1876 in Rawdon. In 1881 & 1891 the family were living in Rawdon with Joseph working as a farmer with four acres. In 1891 Hiram worked as a weaver.

Hiram married Ruth Naylor in 1900. They had five children, with one dying as an infant. In 1901 they were living at 40 Ada Street in Saltaire with Hiram employed as an agent for sewing machines. In 1911 they were living in Yeadon where Hiram was an insurance agent. In 1915 they were living at 6 Amelia Street in Saltaire. Hiram did not serve in the war. He is reported as being a conscientious objector.

Excerpt from a report in the Shipley Times 21 July 1916 concerning the Shipley Military Tribunal: -

Hiram Lamb the sales manager in the employ of Singer Sewing Machine Co., Ltd., appealed on conscientious grounds. He said he was married and had four children. The Chairman: Taking into consideration the fact of your age, and family, you will be postponed until November 1st.
The Applicant: On the same grounds the last one?
The Chairman: Yes.

By 1921 they were living at 9 Primrose Hill in Bingley. In the 1939 Register they were living in Blackpool were Hiram was a club collector. Ruth died in Blackpool in 1954; Hiram died in Worth Valley district in 1959.

 

Ashton Larrad was the son of James Edward Larrad. James was born 1862 in Wakefield. He married Amy Vickerman, 6 December 1889, at All Saints Otley. In 1891 they lived in Horbury, Wakefield where James was a grocer. By 1901 they were living at Taylor Terrace in Baildon. James was a warehouseman then a coal merchant's manager.

Ashton, the sixth of nine children, was born 9 January 1906 in Baildon. He married Catherine Dunlop in 1931. In 1932 they were living at 47 Manor Lane in Shipley; in 1933 at 25 Manor Lane. By 1939 they had moved to 32 Ada Street in Saltaire where they were still living in 1960. In 1939 Ashton was working as a textile weaver. They had daughter Eileen, born in 1940.

Report from the Shipley Times 21 February 1945: -

ASSAULT CHARGE DISMISSED
A summons against Ashton Larrad of 32 Ada Street, Saltaire, alleging common assault on an eight-years-old boy, David Neale, 18 Herbert Street, Saltaire, was dismissed.
Mrs. Rosina Neale said that on February 7, David returned home from school with finger marks on his face. He said a man had hit him. Witness saw defendant next day and questioned him about the assault, and he replied that David had been hitting another little child, so he stopped him.
Ten-years-old Wendy Dearden told the magistrates she saw defendant strike David on the face. He did it because the boy had attacked a little girl.
David Neale said that little girl had knocked his younger brother down and he struck her. A man then hit him in the face. Larrad giving evidence, said he was waiting for his little girl to come out of school, when he saw another little girl. Everybody seemed to be picking on her. He saw David Neale spring at the girl from behind a wall and a "rough and tumble" ensued. The boy jumped on the girl a second time, causing her glasses to fall to the ground.
Defendant said he spoke to David and grabbed hold of him by the collar.
The boy did not cry. The next day he met Mrs Neale and gave her his name and address. He thought nothing of the incident. Defendant thought it was outrageous that the case had been brought.

Report from the Shipley Times 11 December 1946: -

Bradford W.R. Magistrates Monday 9 December
For causing a motor-cycle combination to be on a road during darkness without necessary lights Ashton Larrad (40) an engineer of 32 Ada Street, Saltaire, was fined 10s. He pleaded "guilty."
P.C. Rushworth said that at 6 pm an accident was reported to him which had occurred in Ada Street. It was alleged that at the time of the accident defendant had left his motor-cycle combination without lights in Ada Street. When questioned about it Larrad said: "I was having a bath at the time and forgot."

Sometime after 1960 Ashton and Catherine emigrated to New Zealand. Ashton died, 27 September 1974, in Auckland; Catherine died, 11 November 1982.

 

Thomas Laycock was the son of William Laycock & Isabella White. William and Isabella were married 2 December 1844 at St Wilfried, Calverley. They had 13 children.

Thomas Laycock was born 18 February 1859 in Saltaire. In 1861 they were living at 12 Amelia Street, Saltaire, with William working as a machine tenter. In 1871 they were at 6 Albert Terrace, Saltaire, with Thomas working as a spinner and his father a stone labourer. In 1881 they were at 29 George Street, Saltaire, with Thomas working as a wool sorter and his father a warehouseman.

Report in the Shipley Times 28 March 1885: -

DISAGREEABLE PASSENGER

On Thursday (26 March), at the West Riding Police Court, Bradford, Thomas Laycock, millhand, of George Street, Saltaire, was charged under the Railway Act with annoying passengers and also with doing damage to the amount of 6s. 6d. Mr. Whitelock, of Birmingham, prosecuted.
John Maxwell, of 25 Albert Street, Woodbottom, Shipley, stated that he was a passenger on the 11.15 a.m. train from Bradford to Shipley on 28 February last. The defendant entered the same compartment at Bradford, and between Manningham and Frizinghall seized a newspaper which he (witness) was reading. Laycock also used abusive language and prevented him from reading. On arriving at Frizinghall he called the guard's attention to the defendant, whereupon the latter struck and otherwise assaulted the witness.
A struggle ensued, in the course of which the carriage window was broken. Subsequently, after arrival at Shipley, the defendant threw off his coat and again assaulted him.
Laycock now denied the offence, and said it was merely a "fratch" with Maxwell on football matters.
Constable Morley was called and stated that on several occasions when he had been taking prisoners to Armley, the defendant had incited them to make an effort for their liberty.
The bench, who said they were determined to protect passengers, fined the defendant 20s. and costs for the assault, 1s. for the damage, and also ordered him to pay 6s. 6d, the value of the window.

 Thirty year old Thomas married Eliza Ellis, 1 February 1890, at Bradford Cathedral. She was a domestic servant aged 32 from Essex. In the 1891 Census, Thomas & Eliza are living apart. Thomas is a wool sorter living with his parents and siblings at 29 George Street, Saltaire. Eliza is a servant living in Rochford, Essex.

Thomas lost his father, when William died in October 1897. In February 1898, Thomas served 10 days in Wakefield Prison for being drunk and disorderly. He is described as being 5ft. 6 ¾ ins. tall. In the 1901 census he was still separated from his wife and living with his mother and siblings at 29 George Street.

Report in the Shipley Times 13 July 1901: -

West Riding Police Court, Bradford
THE STORY OF A SALTAIRE PIG TROUGH

The piggeries at Saltaire are rapidly disappearing, and a case arising out of their removal came before the Justices today (Monday 8 July), in which Thomas Laycock, wool sorter of Shipley, was charged with stealing a stone pig trough, the property of Whitaker Clough.
The prosecutor said he was a coal merchant and lived at 15 Caroline Street. He had rented pig-cotes, which were being pulled down. He missed a stone trough on or about 19 June. He made his loss known, and the trough, which he valued at 7s, was brought back on Saturday (6 July) night. He knew the prisoner, who lived near.
Questioned by the prisoner, the witness said he went to Laycock’s house on Tuesday night, 2 July, and had some talk about the trough, and the prisoner then said he should not take it back until he got what he paid for it. In reply to the Chairman, witness said he told the prisoner that if he would bring the trough back it would be all right. Prisoner then said he bought it. Witness’s father had seen prisoner several times about it, and it was brought back.
Benjamin Read, a labourer living at 15 Constance Street, Saltaire, said he was employed in pulling down the pig cotes on 19 & 20 June. Prisoner came on the job and asked them if they would give him a lift with the trough on to the cart, and they did so. Hearing afterwards that the trough had been stolen, they fetched it back from behind the Cricketers’ Arms, Baildon Green.
Cross examined by prisoner: A man named Haley sold a trough on 19 June. We didn’t say that we had 5 or 6 troughs we would sell them for a drink of beer and denied saying there were some troughs that could be had for some “’lowance;” but admitted that prisoner did go away and fetch some beer, which was drunk among them, and they then helped him with the trough on to the cart. Hearing that there was likely to be some trouble, they fetched the trough back. He helped to do so because he did not want to come here today and lose a day’s work. Alfred E. Jackson, another man employed in pulling down the piggeries said the prisoner gave them to understand the beer was for the lift, and not for the trough. Witness sent someone with the last witness to take the trough back, as he didn’t know it was stolen.
Prisoner: If I was going to steal a trough, do you think I should follow the cart on to Baildon Green in daylight?
Witness: You did follow the cart.
Herbert Badland said he was a carting agent and lived at Baildon Green. On a Thursday or Friday in June, the prisoner Laycock told him he had bought a trough and asked him to take it to Baildon Green. He said he would take it if Salt’s men put it in the cart and said it had to go. The men afterwards helped to lift it into the cart, and when they got to Baildon Green, prisoner took the trough away in a wheelbarrow.
In reply to the prisoner, witness said he never saw any beer.
Timothy William Wilson, landlord of the Cricketer’s Arms at Baildon Green, stated that on the previous Tuesday, Laycock went to his house and said he had brought a trough and put it in the cart shed, and wanted witness to buy it for a shilling and a quart of beer, but he declined. Subsequently some young fellow, for a lark, took the barrow and the trough and tipped it down into a quarry.
On being formally charged, prisoner pleaded not guilty, but chose to have the case dealt with by the bench.
Constable Beaton said he apprehended the prisoner at 9 o’clock on Saturday night.
In reply to the charge, he said, “That’s a very good do; that’s a very good do.” Prisoner in giving evidence on his own behalf, stated that being out of work he went down to the piggeries at Saltaire, where a man he knew was trying to buy some pigs of Sam Beanland. He didn’t buy the pigs but bought a trough from Stead for 1/8. A man named Haley then told them there were some other troughs that could be had for a drop of “’lowance,” so he (prisoner) went and fetched half a gallon of ale, which the men drank. He picked out a trough, and they helped him with it on the cart. Next morning the men were “afraid they would lose their work for selling the trough for the ‘lowance.” So they “fetched it back and said that the ‘lowance was for helping to lift it onto the cart.
Prisoner said he had no witnesses, as he had no money with which to pay them.
The Chairman – Did you hear the two of the witnesses say that you had told them you had bought the trough?
Prisoner – Yes, but they are afraid of losing their work that makes them say so. In reply to the Chairman, Supt. Crawshaw said there were 29 previous convictions against the prisoner, who had been before the Court twice this year. There were five cases of stealing, the last in 1897, when he was sent from the Leeds Assizes for four months for stealing from the person.
Addressing the prisoner, the Chairman said it was fortunate for him that the Bench did not know of his record before asking him to plead, or he would probably have been sent before a jury. He would be committed to prison for three months, with hard labour.

 Thomas lost his mother when Isabella died in April 1903. Thomas died 5 October 1903.

Report in the Shipley Times 9 October: -

Sudden Death

An inquest was held on Wednesday (7 October) afternoon, at Sir Titus Salt’s Hospital, before Deputy-Coroner J. B. Kershaw, into the circumstances attending the death of Thomas Laycock (48), woolsorter, who lived at 29 George Street, Saltaire.

Emily Laycock, sister of the deceased, said that he had always been delicate, but had not had any doctor to attend him. He had at times been subject to sick faints, when he would lose himself and fall.

When he came home on Saturday (3 October) night he said he had had a gird, and he was brought home. They got him to bed, and got up next day, but did not go out.

He went to bed on Sunday, when he complained about being cold. About mid-night she heard him groaning, so she went to see him. She sent for Dr Emerson about one o’clock, but he was dead when the doctor arrived

Dr J. Emerson, Saltaire, said that from his examination and evidence of the last witness, he concluded that deceased had died from natural causes. A verdict to that effect was returned by the jury.

 

Leach, Vera (nee Crossland)
16 October 1908 – 17 December 1969

Vera Crossland was born 16 October 1908 in Saltaire to Lister Crossland & Amy Busfield

In 1911 they were living at 11 Shirley Street in Saltaire with Lister working as a house painter. By 1915 they were living at 16 George Street in Saltaire.

In February 1923, as a pupil of Miss Hilda Cooke of Saltaire, Vera sang at a concert given at the Hall Royd Wesleyan Sunday School. In March 1928, as a member of the John R. Sampson Amateur Players, she performed in the play, “Hay Fever,” at Victoria Hall, Saltaire.

Vera married Dennis Leach in 1939. He was born, 30 October 1906. He worked as a wool sorter. In the 1939 Register they were living at 30 Durham Road, Bradford, where they would spend the rest of their lives.

Dennis died, 7 March 1955. In his will he left £718 8s 7d to Vera. Vera died, 17 December 1969. In her will she left £2,402.

 

Fred Lightfoot was the son of James Lightfoot. James was born c1834 in Shipley. He married Mary Hollis 25 December 1857 at Bradford Cathedral. They had at least eight children.

Fred was born 1869 in Shipley. In 1871 the family lived at 8 Albert Street in Shipley with James working as a stone mason. In 1881 they were living at 34 Regent Street with eleven-year-old Fred working as a factory hand.

Fred married Alice Camm, of 4 Caroline Street, Saltaire, 27 April 1889, at Bradford Cathedral. In 1890 they were living at 10 Caroline Street in Saltaire. In the 1891 census (5 April) Fred, working as a gasser, was living with his wife Alice and their son, James aged one at 40 Ada Street. James was buried 31 August 1891 aged just 19 months.

Report from Shipley Times 3 October 1891: -

Bradford West Riding Court Thursday 1 October
Before Mr Theo Peel (chairman), Mr W Anderton, Mr E P Arnold-Foster, Colonel Hirst, Mr W H Ellis, Mr E Slater and Mr J S Cooke
A Nice Story of Married Life
Fred Lightfoot, Ada Street, Saltaire, was summoned for assaulting his wife. Mr C. L. Atkinson appeared for defendant.
Complainant stated that on Sunday last her husband came home drunk and got up on Monday morning and want to the Prince of Wales Hotel. She went to him and requested him to go to work, but he only swore at her and afterwards turned her out of the house, taking the key with him to his mother in Thompson Street.
Only a month since complainant buried her child, and the time of the funeral she had a black eye end her face was knocked to pieces, all of which had been done by defendant.
On Sunday defendant home with a lot of men to gamble, and she objected turned her out of the house. He did not hit her Monday, but struck her and hit her mother, at whom he swore in shameful manner.
The Chairman: ls this the first time he has assaulted you?
No; I have had to leave the house with my child at midnight to get out of his way.
By Mr Atkinson: She went to her mother's because she had nowhere else to go.
On Monday morning did you go to him at the Prince of Wales?
Yes, -He was having two pennorth of rum? No.
What did you call him? I called him anything wrong, but told him to go to his work, and he turned around and said, "If you don't shut your mouth, I'll throw you out of the _________door."
Didn't you swear at him and call him lazy?
No; if I may die in the box, I never said such a thing.
Didn't you follow him from the Prince of Wales up Thompson Street swearing all the way?
I followed him to get the key.
Didn't his mother tell you to be quiet, you would do more good? No.
Didn't you say to his mother, "Go to _______ with you? No.
When he went to the house didn't your mother strike him the nose, and then he hit her back? No; he struck first.
Hasn't he given you £1 week and sometimes 25s? Sometimes.
You got year furniture on the hire system? Yes.
And you should have paid £16 towards the £l8, but you have only paid £8 out of all the money has given you? Yes.
Mrs Camm, complainant's mother, said on Monday morning she found the two were quarrelling and "raising all the street.'' She pushed her daughter into the house, and defendant afterwards came in. He was going to strike her daughter, but she interposed and got the blow. Defendant then pushed them both out of the house and looked the door.
The Chairman; Has this gone on for some time?
Yes, for months. It's the drink; I don't know a better man when he is sober.
ls there any chance of making it up?
There should be, but when it comes to turning them out of the house at twelve o'clock at night, and threatening them with knives, it is time something was done.
Mr Atkinson: You interfere, don't you? No.
Haven't you, between you, looked him out of his own house? No.
Hasn't he been to you for the key? Yes, but I hadn't it.
Hadn't he to get through the window? Yes
Mr Atkinson said it was really a matter of mothers and mother-in-law. Defendant was a good husband, but they would not let him alone.
The Chairman thought they ought to make up; they had only been married three years.
To the complainant- You hear what your mother says, that he is a good husband when sober? Yes, none better, but he never hardly is sober.
Are you willing to be friends again?
Yes; I don't want to do anything to him but think he should give over "leathering" me.
The Chairman asked whether the defendant would promise to do better. If he gave such promise, and it were understood that other members of the family should not interfere, it might the best settlement.
Mr Atkinson denied that defendant was a bad husband; he would prove that the wife was to blame. She would have promise to behave better. Defendant gave her £1 a week regularly.
Complainant: Yes, and he has given 5s. and less.
The Chairman said there were fault on both sides.
Mr Atkinson: Yes, but I will prove that she is the worse of the two, and it is not fair to ask him to promise and not the woman.
After a time, it was agreed that the defendant should pay the costs and the case be withdrawn, both parties promising to try and live happily in the future.

Fred emigrated, alone, to America, arriving in New York 6 November 1891 aboard SS Germanic having sailed from Liverpool. It is unclear what happened to him in America.

 

Gustav Adolph Linck was the son of Edward Frederick Louis Linck. Edward was born 22 April 1833 in Prussia. He married Mary Ann Porter, 9 April 1857, in Manchester. They had seven children. In 1861they were living in Chorlton, Lancashire, where Edward was a clerk for an exporter of manufactured goods.

Gustav, their youngest child, was born 1 November 1870 in Bradford. In 1871 they were living in Horton, Bradford. Gustav’s mother, Mary Ann, died early in 1874. His widowed father, Edward, became a British citizen, 3 March 1874.

Edward married widow Ellen Thompson Schmidt (nee Beatty) 22 March 1877 at St. John’s Bradford. In 1881 the family were living at 1 Ashgrove, Horton, Bradford, where Edward worked as a merchant.

Gustav attended Salts School. In July 1884 he gained a first class award in inorganic chemistry. In August 1886 he gained a first class award in inorganic chemistry, advanced stage. In November 1889 he attended a presentation for the school's retiring head master, James Lonsdale, at the Victoria Hall, Saltaire.

In 1891 Gustav was a stuff merchant clerk living with his family at 37 Oak Lane, Manningham. Working as a stuff buyer he married Fanny Riley, 19 June 1900, at St. Paul’s Shipley. They had a daughter, Audrey, born 8 April 1901, and a son, Theodore, born 9 August 1909.

In 1901 & 1911 they were living at 12 Victoria Avenue, Shipley. In 1911 they employed a servant.

Gustav was a member and a warden of St. Peter’s church, Shipley, and a supporter of the Conservative Party. He was also a member of the Saltaire Rose Society, of which he was a vice chairman in 1915.

Gustav’s father, Edward, died in 1905.

In September 1915 Gustav contributed £8 to the Shilling fund for the Belgian Refugees. In November 1915 he was on the platform at a bazaar at St. Peter’s church.

At the first general meeting of Saltaire Institute Society held in May 1916, Gustav was elected as a member of the Executive Committee. Tragically, Gustav’s son, Theodore, was killed in an accident, 17 July 1916.

Report in the Shipley Times 21 July: -

An inquest was held at Threshfield on Monday (17 July), into the circumstances surrounding the death of Theodore Linck (the six-year, old child of Mr Gustav Linck, 12 Sleningford Road, Shipley) who was fatally injured in a motor accident on Friday evening.

The evidence showed that the child and his mother arrived at Brooklyn, Threshfield, on Friday (14 July) evening. An hour later the child ran in front of a motor-car driven by a man named Richard Hawley, and was knocked down receiving serious injuries, from which he died on Sunday (17 July). The jury returned a verdict of '‘Accidental death,” and the driver was exonerated from all blame.

In July 1920 Gustav was chairman of the Saltaire Rose Society Show committee. In November of the same year he presided at the Society’s sixteenth annual general meeting.

Gustav lost his wife, Fanny, when she died 19 May 1925.

In August 1929 Gustav was reported as being a director of David Midgley and Sons, Ltd., textile merchants of Bradford and Manchester; he was manager of the Bradford branch.

His daughter, Audrey, married Colonel Gerard Maxwell Glynton, D.S.O., of Quetta, India, 30 July 1929, at Bradford Cathedral. Audrey would go on to live in Quetta with her husband.

In the 1939 Register, Gustav is living with the Gallon family in Manchester.

Gustav died 1 February 1959 at 91 Lansdowne Road, West Didsbury, Manchester. In his will he left £12,918 14s 8d, to his widowed daughter, Audrey Glynton.

 

William Lockett was born, 30 January 1870, in Wolstanton, Staffordshire to Noah & Eliza Lockett. They lived in Wolstanton, where Noah was a coal miner.

William married Elizabeth Ann Huxley, 1 April 1904, in Chesterton, Staffordshire. She was born c1877 in Chesterton. (Note – Wolstanton & Chesterton are both suburbs of Newcastle-Under-Lyme.) Elizabeth had a daughter, Minnie Huxley, born in 1901, father unknown. William and Elizabeth had three children – daughters Priscilla (born 1904) & Gladys May (1910) born in Chesterton, and a son Frederick William (1915) in Conisbrough, Yorkshire.

William served in WW1 until he was discharged with a disability, 9 February 1917.

William and his family, including Minnie, moved to 10 Caroline Street, Saltaire, around 1917. In 1921 William was a labourer working for Saltaire Lawn Tennis Club. Daughter Priscilla was a spinner at Saltaire Mills.

Report in the Shipley Times 10 November 1922: -

SHIPLEY GANG BROKEN
RINGLEADER SENTENCED AT OTLEY

At Otley Police Court on Friday (3 November), three Shipley youths, Thomas H. Keleher (20), William Newton (17) and Sam Moore (17), said to be members a gang of about a dozen lads under the leadership of Keleher, were charged with stealing 106 tennis balls, the property of the Saltaire Tennis Club.

Supt, Oldroyd said that at about 9.30 p.m. on 1 November, the three prisoners were seen by Police Constable Cooper and Sergeant Redfearn, who were in plain clothes, coming from the direction of the Tennis Club pavilion.

Newton was carrying a sack on his back, and the other two had bulging pockets. Questioned as to the contents of the sack, Newton said it was full of potatoes which he had got from his uncle. Being examined, however, the sack was found to contain tennis balls.

Police-constable Cooper said that when prisoners were subsequently charged, Keleher replied, “We are guilty. I led them into it.” Newton said, “We all three stole them,” and Moore answered, “I am saying nowt.”

The lock on the pavilion door was broken, added the police constable, and evidently some force had been used to enter. The lock might have been broken by an iron bar found outside. The prisoners declared that the pavilion door was open.

Mr. William Lockett, groundsman for the Tennis Club, who resides at 10 Caroline Street, Saltaire, said he had placed the tennis balls in boxes in the pavilion owned by the Cricket Club. The one belonging to the Tennis Club was burned down last summer. All three prisoners pleaded guilty. An elder brother of Newton said that about a dozen lads went together. The gang wanted breaking up. “I should break them if I could get hold of them,” he added.

Supt. Oldroyd pointed out that there were several previous convictions against Keleher, who was undoubtedly the ringleader.

The Bradford police wished other offences to be taken into consideration. Newton and Moore, added the Superintendent, had been at a loose end for some time, and were frequently running about the streets, evidently owing to lack of parental control.

Mr. H. Barker (presiding magistrate) said his Bench would do their best to break the gang. Keleher would be sent to prison for six months, and Newton and Moore would be bound over for twelve months and would have to pay the costs.

William remained at 10 Caroline Street, until around 1936. In the 1939 Register, he was a widower living with his married stepdaughter, Minnie Goodard (nee Huxley) and her family, in Conisbrough, Yorkshire.

William died in 1945, in Don Valley, Yorkshire.

Wilfred Lodge was the son of Joseph Lodge. Joseph was born 1846 in Kirkburton. He married Sarah Jane Fearn, 24 March 1867, at St. John the Baptist, Dodworth, Barnsley. They had 13 children. They lived in Dodworth where Joseph was a miner.

Wilfred, their tenth child, was born 3 May 1884 and baptised, 12 October 1884.

In 1907, Wilfred, a miner, gave evidence at a court case regarding trouble at the Grimethorpe Working Men’s Club. He served in WW1 with the York & Lancaster Regiment.

Following the war he was unable to work down the mines as he had lost his sense of smell through contact with mustard gas in the war.

Wilfred married widow, Sarah Scott (nee Durham), 20 August 1920 at Bethel Chapel, Windhill. Sarah had two children, Ernest, and Elsie, from her first marriage. Wilfred and Sarah had a son, Kenneth Wilfred, born 6 January 1925. Wilfred worked as a handyman. He lived with his family at 10 Ada Street, Saltaire, before moving to 17 Wycliffe Road, Shipley around 1923. They moved to 8 William Henry Street, Saltaire around 1931, where they lived the rest of their lives. In the 1939 Register, Wilfred was working as a builder’s labourer.

Sarah died 13 February 1940; William died in 1951.

(Compiled with the help of Coreen Ackroyd, a granddaughter of Wilfred.)

 

Ann was born c1825 in Saxton, Yorkshire, the eldest of nine children to farmer Robert Lofthouse and his wife, Eleanor.

Ann married James Newton 4 March 1849 at St Wilfrid Calverley. They had a son, John, born in 1850 in Pudsey. Sadly John died in 1866 aged just sixteen. The family lived in Pudsey with John working as a stone delver/quarryman. James died in 1877 aged just forty nine.

In 1881 widowed Ann was a shopkeeper in Pudsey.
Ann married Benjamin Pratt in 1886. They lived at 18 Albert Terrace in Saltaire with Benjamin working as a warp dresser in Saltaire Mills. Around 1894 they moved to 5 Almshouses (renumbered 28 Victoria Road) in Saltaire. Benjamin died in 1898 aged 70.

On Friday 22 December 1916 Ann had a fall in her house whilst dusting a rocking chair, fracturing her left thigh. She had lost the use of the right arm and leg. Ann died 30 December. An inquest concerning her death was held at the Saltaire Institute on Tuesday 2 January 1917, by Mr E W Norris (Deputy Coroner). Dr Emerson said he was of the opinion that death was due to a cerebral haemorrhage, accelerated by the fracture of the thigh. A verdict was returned in accordance with the medical evidence.

 Charles Edward Long was born 17 March, 1888, at 26 Fanny Street, Saltaire to Sam Long and Lucy Ann Exley 8 March 1886 at Rawdon Primitive Methodist Chapel. (For Sam Long see Volume 30)

In 1891 and 1901 Sam ran a butchers shop at 5 Victoria Road, Saltaire. By 1906 Sam and his family moved to 14 Victoria Road. Sam died 15 January, 1906. Lucy died 10 May, 1907.

In 1911 Charles was a master butcher at 14 Victoria Road. He had living with him his grandfather, Charles Long, and his aunt, Clara Long.

Around 1920 he moved with his aunt to 1 Lower School Street, Saltaire, which adjoined his butcher’s shop at 14 Victoria Road.

Charles married Margaret Whiteley in 1924. Margaret was born 20 July 1887 in Saltaire. They had no children.

They ran the butchers in Victoria Road until 1931. In 1932 they were living at 33 Keighley Road, Bingley. In the 1939 Register they were living at 344/346 Bowling Back Lane, Bradford. Charles was a tripe and pie retailer, Margaret was a pie baker.

Charles died 21 January 1943 at St. Lukes Hospital, Bradford. He was laid rest in Nab Wood Cemetery, Shipley. His widow, Margaret, was laid to rest with him just six months later when she died 19 July 1943. She had been living at 19 Albert Road, Saltaire.

 

Alfred Longbottom was the son of John Longbottom.
John was born c1819 in Halifax. He married Hannah Jagger 26 September 1841 at St John the Baptist Halifax.

Alfred, the fifth of nine children, was born 1850 in Shelf. In 1851 the family were living in Hipperholme with John working as a dyer. In 1861 they were living in Baildon. In 1871 they were living at 86 Leeds Road in Idle with Alfred working as a stone dresser.

Alfred married Mary Illingworth 22 December 1872 at Bradford Cathedral. They had three children; James (b1873), William (b1874) & Sarah (b1876). In 1881 they were living at 27 Cowling Road in Idle with Alfred working as a railway labourer. Around   1887 they moved to 6 Mary Street in Saltaire. From 1891 they lived at 18 Constance Street with Alfred working as a stone dresser.

Alfred died in October 1915 and he was buried at Hirst Wood Cemetery Shipley 11 October. Mary was buried alongside him 12 April 1926.

 

Bertha Lonsdale was born 11 January, 1910, in Bingley to William Lonsdale and Mary Jane Barker. In 1911 they were living at 9 William Henry Street, Saltaire, with William working as an overlooker.

In 1921 Bertha was with her family at 34 Titus Street, Saltaire. Both her father and her brother, Alfred, worked at Saltaire Mills. They moved to 9 Glenaire Drive in Baildon around 1929.

Bertha was a pupil at Salt Girls High School. In May 1925 she won an award in an essay writing competition.

Extract from the Shipley Times, 27 August 1927: -

At Salt Girls’ High School, Bertha Lonsdale, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lonsdale, of 34 Titus Street, Saltaire, and Margaret England, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. England, of Milton House, Church Lane, were successful, and both hope to continue their studies at Leeds University.

Bertha was a member of the Saltaire Wesleyan Church.

Extract from the Shipley Times, 6 October 1928: -

WESLEYAN SOCIAL

The Young People’s Society connected with the Saltaire Wesleyan Methodist Church held their opening social anti enrolment on Monday evening (1 October), in the Sunday schools. Miss Mabel Dixon presided, and an enjoyable evening was spent, during which items were contributed Miss Bertha Lonsdale (soprano) and Miss Evelyn Johnson (elocutionist). Games also formed important part the programme, and refreshments were also served.

Extract from the Shipley Times, 2 March 1929: -

TEMPERANCE DEMONSTRATION

The Rev. Henry Carter, general secretary of the Temperance and Social Welfare departments of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, conducted a Young Methodist’s temperance campaign at the Saltaire Wesleyan Church on Monday, All the churches in the Shipley Wesleyan circuit were represented. A good attendance was presided over by Miss Bertha Lonsdale.

By 1932 Bertha was a librarian working in Baildon.

Extract from the Shipley Times, 25 June 1932: -

Baildon Urban Council Meeting – Tuesday 21 June

Coun, Hodgson, who has been appointed Chairman of the Libraries Committee, referring to the appointment of Miss Bertha Lonsdale as Librarian, hoped the public would give this efficient and capable Librarian all possible support and assistance.

Extract from the Shipley Times, 13 October 1943: -

BAILDON WOMAN’S BROAOCAST

In the Children’s Hour next Saturday evening, an historical drama “The Siege of Knaresborough Castle.” is to broadcast.

This is the work of Miss Bertha Lonsdale, the Baildon Urban Council Librarian, who has had many historical plays and romances broadcast during the past few years.

Extract from the Shipley Times, 28 February 1945: -

SHIPLEY W.E.A. “Literature and Life”

At the Shipley W.E.A. public meeting held in the Oak Room, Baildon Hall, on Sunday evening (25 February). Miss Bertha Lonsdale, the Baildon librarian and B.BC. playwright, spoke on “Literature and Life.”

Bertha left the Library service in 1948.

Extract from the Shipley Times, 11 May 1949: -

BOOKS IN APPRECIATION

Miss Bertha Lonsdale, of Baildon, who has adapted several books for broadcasting in the Children’s Hour, presented copies of “Biggles Flies North” and “Bunkle and Belinda” to the Salt High School, in appreciation for the help they gave her with a recent adaptation.

Extract from the Shipley Times, 9 December 1953: -

WOMEN'S AUXILIARY

Baildon Green Independent Methodist Women’s Auxiliary received a very interesting address last Tuesday evening from Miss Bertha Lonsdale, a former librarian at Baildon, who is now a scriptwriter for the B.B.C. Children’s Hour.

Extract from the Isle of Man Daily Times, 7 May 1963: -

Miss Bertha Lonsdale and W.I.

At the Council Meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, the speaker will be Miss Bertha Lonsdale, and the president, Lady Garvey, will be attending to hear what promises to be a most interesting talk on Miss Lonsdale’s work for the B.B.C.

Miss Lonsdale will be staying with her friends, Mr and Mrs S. E. Wilson at Port Soderick. They first met in 1955 when an hour’s broadcast was done from King William’s College and Miss Lonsdale wrote the scripts.

She is a scriptwriter for the northern B.B.C. and is shortly starting a new series of natural history programmes. A keen birdwatcher, she is looking forward to doing some concentrated watching at Derbyhaven, and after staying four days with the Wilsons, she is going to continue her Island visit at the Derbyhaven Hotel.

Bertha died 7 May 1977 at 24 Fernbank Drive, Baildon. In her will she left £15,773 (worth £92,000 in 2025).

 

Hannah Gladys Feather was born 1 February 1892 in Shipley to Briggs Feather & Lavinia Dennison. She was baptised 16 March 1892 at Saltaire Wesleyan Church.

In 1892 they were living at 10 Ferrands Road in Shipley, with Briggs carrying on business in Bingley Road, Shipley.

In November 1905, Hannah was a collector for a collection organised by the Wesleyan Foreign Mission Society. By 1911 her family had moved to 73 Bingley Road in Saltaire (formerly 12 Gordon Terrace) with Briggs running a boot shop, assisted by Gladys. Hannah married Percy Lund, 14 September 1915, at Saltaire Wesleyan Church.

Excerpt from a report in the Shipley 24 September: -

Lance Corporal Lund Percy Lund, whose parents reside at Cottingley, and who is a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to the 1 st/6 th Batt., West Yorks. Regt. (Bradford Territorials), was on 14 September at the Saltaire Wesleyan Church, married to Hannah Gladys Feather, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Feather, Gordon Terrace, Saltaire. The officiating minister was the Rev. Mattinson.

The bride, who was attired in a covert costume, and wore a black velour hat with sports mount, was given away her father. The bridesmaid, Miss Olivia Feather (bride’s sister) wore a saxe blue satin drees with black hat and black fox fur. Trooper Frank Feather (only brother of the bride) and a member of the Yorkshire Dragoons was best man.

After the ceremony the happy couple journeyed Bay for honeymoon, Lund returning to the trenches the following Thursday morning.

Previous to the outbreak of war Lance-Corporal Lund was a member of the Shipley Detachment the Royal Army Medical Corps.  

Hannah & Percy had a daughter, Gladys Elizabeth, born 13 May 1923. Less than a month after giving birth Hannah died, 9 June., at 73 Bingley Road, She was buried in Nab Wood Cemetery, Shipley.

Extract from a report in the Shipley Times 15 June: -

It is with deep regret that we record the death of Mrs. Percy Lund, which took place at her residence, 73 Bingley Road, Saltaire, on Saturday (9 June), after an illness of only three weeks’ duration.

Mrs. Lund was a daughter of the late Mr. Briggs Feather, and of Mrs. Feather, Avondale Road, Shipley. A capable businerss organiser, tactful, and of a cheerful disposition, she enjoyed the confidence of a large circle of friends, and the business acumen which she displayed during the great war, in managing (he business for her brother (Mr. Frank Feather), excited great admiration.

In the presence of a large gathering of relatives and friends, the funeral took place at Nab Wood Cemetery on Tuesday (12 June) afternoon. Prior to the interment. a service was held at Saltaire Wesleyan Church, with which Mrs. Lund’s family have been actively identified for several years. The service was conducted by the Rev. J. Harold Robinson, assisted by the Rev. W. H. Mattinson, of Bolton (formerly of Saltaire).

At the graveside the committal portion was read the Rev. W.H. Mattinson.

In her will she left £222 14s 6d to her husband, who was an insurance inspector.

 

Percival Lund was the son of Keighley Lund who was born, 1830, in Keighley. He married Mary Wild, 6 September, 1856, at St Paul’s Manningham. They had 12 children. They lived in Manningham where Keighley was a warehouseman then a yarn buyer.

Percival was born 1 August, 1875. He was baptised 2 September, 1875 at St Mark’s Manningham. His father, Keighley died 17 November, 1878.

In 1891 Percival was a solicitor’s clerk; in 1901 a bank accountant. He married Jessie Herridge 6 August, 1902, at St John’s Wesleyan Chapel in Halifax. In 1911 they were living at Briar Mead, Bank Crest, Baildon where Percival was a bank cashier. They had two daughters: Marjorie born 12 August, 1903, and Jessie Mabel born 31 July, 1907. Percival’s wife, Jessie, died in 1916.

Percival was initiated as a Freemason when he joined the Doric Lodge in Bradford 28 February 1921.

In the 1921 he was living with his daughters and a housekeeper at 49 Southfield Square, Bradford. He was a bank clerk working for Lloyds Bank at Hestlergate, Bradford. Daughter Marjorie worked as a typist in the same bank.

Widower Percival married Florence Ethel Denton in 1923. They moved to 1 Albert Road in Saltaire when Percival was appointed bank manager of the Shipley & Saltaire branches of Lloyds Bank. His daughter Jessie Mabel married Arthur Leslie Church, of Colchester, 7 June 1932 at St Peter’s Shipley. His daughter Marjorie married Frank Holdsworth, of Manningham, 20 December 1932 at Saltaire Methodist Church. Percival’s second wife, Florence, died 4 January 1937. She was buried in Nab Wood Cemetery in Shipley.

Twice widowed Percival married Minnie Lucy Washington 3rd Qtr. 1937.

Report from the Shipley Times 1 October 1938 as follows: -

The retirement of Mr. Percival Lund, who has been manager of the Saltaire and Shipley branches of Lloyds Bank Ltd., for the past 14 years, took place yesterday (Friday), on which date completed his 43rd year of banking service.

Mr. Lund commenced his duties at the former head office of the Halifax & Huddersfield Union Hank, transferred to Bradford, where he spent 25 years. During this period the Halifax Huddersfield Union Bank was taken over by the Halifax Joint Stock Bank. Ltd., in August. 1910. The name the Halifax Joint Stock was later changed to that of the West Yorkshire Bank Ltd.

The West Yorkshire Bank was merged in Lloyds Bank Ltd. in 1919. Mr. Lund was appointed sub-manager at the Union Rank branch in Bradford in 1922, and manager of the Saltaire and Shipley branches in 1924.

During his period at Saltaire he has associated himself with various local interests. He is a member of the Saltaire Methodist Church, and he has filled most offices open to a layman and is a past circuit steward.

In the 1939 Register Percival was living with his wife, Minnie, at 16 Sherwood Grove in Shipley. Minnie died 10 February 1940 at Sir Titus Salts Hospital. In her will she left £5,328 9s 2d (worth c£260,000).

Annie Elizabeth Hessey was Percival’s fourth wife when they were married in 1942. Percival died at 16 Sherwood Grove 18 October 1957. He was buried in Nab Wood Cemetery alongside his second wife Florence. In his will he left £713 9s 6d. Annie died 18 January 1858 in Blackpool and was buried alongside Percival. In her will she left £997 15s 6d.

Nab Wood Cemetery and Crematorium: Monumental Inscriptions

In loving memory of FLORENCE ETHEL, dearly loved wife of PERCIVAL LUND of Saltaire, died 4 th January 1937.
Also of PERCIVAL beloved husband of ANNIE E. LUND, died 18 th Oct. 1957, aged 82 years.
Also of the above ANNIE E. LUND, died 18 th Jan. 1958, aged 70 years.