Recently at the Wakefield Archives we came across a couple of images from 1752 which show watercolour sketches of the two bridges on the Skipton Road in Embsay. At the time they […]

“Curious Bargain – A few days ago, a blacksmith at Embsay, purchased the wife of a person at Skipton, with all her wearing apparel, sow and a litter of eleven young pigs, […]

This article is available in audio: Eastby Methodist Chapel Eastby Methodist Chapel, now a house, first opened in 1823. The Trustees bought the land in 1818 from Miss Jane Baynes, formerly of […]

Just over two months after the outbreak of the First World War, the Craven Herald newspaper reported, on the 23rd of October, 1914, that at Embsay: “On Wednesday evening a public meeting […]

This article is available in audio: The Swedenborgians The building on Pasture Road, now the Children’s Centre, was formerly the New Jerusalem Church built in 1912 by the followers of Emanuel Swedenborg, […]

How many people have sat on this stone with a cross near to the bus stop at Brackenley Lane? If you did then you were probably continuing a tradition many centuries old. […]

This article is available in audio: The Quakers Of Embsay & Eastby The Quaker movement was founded by George Fox following a revelation on Pendle Hill in the Spring of 1652, during […]

This article is available in audio: In 1780 the population of Embsay and Eastby was about 300. Most of the adults were tenant farmers, farm labourers and servants, hand spinners and weavers, […]

From the Diaries of Annie Parker Greenwood Annie Parker Greenwood grew up at the Mason’s Arms in Eastby which she ran with her widowed mother Elizabeth. These diary extracts for Christmas 1876 […]

Despite the common misconception that the “flower of England’s youth” were almost completely wiped out by the Great War, more soldiers survived the war than were killed in action.  The following (Rimmer, […]