This article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen.  The Northrop and Lingard families came to Embsay in the late 1860’s from Thornton near Bradford, […]

This article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen.  The picture shows part of a document that was presented to the Wetherby Quarter Sessions Court […]

This article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen.  In July 1897 Geoffrey Wellock, a farmer of Embsay,[1] was fined 5 shillings because his dog […]

In a small community nothing sparks a family feud more than the question of paternity of an illegitimate child, especially when it concerns the son of a prosperous well-established Eastby family and the daughter of a less prosperous one.

Sarah Tibbot was 12 when she came to work as a servant at the Mason’s Arms Eastby in 1876. Her parents had recently moved into one of the wooden huts at Black Hill (Halton Height) which were built to accommodate the navvies and other workers employed in building Upper Barden Reservoir. Her father Richard worked as a navvy, whilst her mother Bridget not only had 6 children but also ran a navvy lodging house.

This article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen.  Immediately after the last Ice Age Embsay Moor was covered in large gritstone boulders, deposited as […]

This article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen.  Elizabeth Wilson (1780-1853) was a tailor’s daughter, originally from Farnhill. In 1801 she married William Whitaker […]

This article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen.  The construction of Lower Barden Reservoir by Bradford Corporation began in 1856, and before the building […]

his article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen.  Brass Plaque At St Mary’s Church To The Parish Clerk And The Church Cleaner By the […]