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Lee
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Posted -  11/08/2004  :  17:31
I would Like to do some research on Green End House in Earby
I lived there as a child, and my husband and I bought the middle part of the house over ten years ago. I know that the Bracwell family lived there and I read an article about the house saying that one of the tennants in the weavers cottage had got drunk and all the furniture was taken from the cottage and stored in Green End House cellar. The house doesnt have a large cellar only a small keep cellar.
If any body could help with the history i would love to hear from them.


Edited by - Lee on 11 Aug 2004 17:36:47


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Lee
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Posted - 18/08/2004 : 20:58
Did you live on Green End? if so for how long.
I orignally lived in Rose Cottage, on the top of Aspen Lane. Now that area has changed. Remember Bethels Shop down Riely street and there were also a few rows of houses on the land across from Rose cottage, i dont know what those streets were called.
When we moved into Green End house we found an old map ( a copy)dated 1825 a plan of the parish of Thorton in craven. It doesnt give much detail about Earby although it is shown, it does however give details of landowners and things like that although Green End is shown along with other old Properties.

Edited by - Lee on 19 Aug 2004 10:57:22


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Mixman
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Posted - 18/08/2004 : 21:51

Hi Lee, see new article:
"When the Bracewells Lived at Green End House"
Posted in Local History Forum



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handlamp
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Posted - 19/08/2004 : 19:29
Lee,

Re your query, I was born at 3 Green End Avenue in November 1925 and, apart from my time in the R.N., lived there until my marriage in July 1948. In the summer of 1940 the Government appealed for older children to `give a hand on the land' to help with the harvest. In addition to the normal holidays, the children were granted leave from school (I think two weeks). I `helped' Hartley Ryecroft on the farm and continued to do so until I left school in February 1941.


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Stevie
Mad Woman of Thornton


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Posted - 20/08/2004 : 00:01

Lee, any chance of scanning a copy of your map onto the site? I now live in Thornton in Craven and would be interested in seeing it.Go to Top of Page
Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart


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Posted - 20/08/2004 : 05:10
Ted, even though I am ten years younger than you (hee hee) you've woken a memory I had buried completely. They dragged us all out of school at about the same time and we all went picking spuds. I was only about 5 years old at the time but we all regarded it as a picnic and a day off. I think that's why they took the whole school.


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Mixman
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Posted - 20/08/2004 : 13:18
Hello Stevie, have you tried this link?

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/gazetteer/10yorks401/10yorks401gazA.htm



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Stevie
Mad Woman of Thornton


834 Posts
Posted - 22/08/2004 : 00:27

Many thanks Mixman for the link, I find it incredible to think our home is actually named on an 1852 map. Thanks to a few hours trawling through the library census records I even know that it was a couple named George and Lucy Mitchel who lived here at the time. Any information however sparse about George in particular will be gratefully received, as he was here for at least 30 years.

Whilst I have hijacked Lee's topic I'd like to ask if anyone knows why if I turn right out of our driveway approx 100 yards down the road a sign says 'Welcome to Barnoldswick' and if I turn left out of it, there is another sign 100 yards or so saying 'Welcome to Thornton' which makes us feel we are somewhere in no mans land.
I think it was next door that once told us that Nuttercote was once a place name all its own, almost like a village many years ago but was absorbed into Thornton at one time. Does anyone have any information/opinion on this?

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Robert Rycroft
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Posted - 11/08/2005 : 18:28
I have just stumbled on this site by chance and seen the references to Green End and Hartley Rycroft. He was my Grandfather. (there is no 'e' in the spelling of our family name).

When I was born, we lived at Green End in the end cottage. We moved to Bingley in about 1948 when I was 2 and so do not remember much but I remember a little from later visits. My father is Sidney Rycroft and my mother was Isobel Whitaker from Colne. They are both in their 80s now and live in Devon. I live near London and have a brother, David, in Liverpool.

My father had a pet snake which he sometimes took in his pocket to school. Sometime after he had moved to Birmingham, I once drove Hartley to visit Earby - I think it was in 1967 or 68. He got out of the car a couple of times to talk to people he knew. He is buried in Thornton-in-Craven graveyard.

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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart


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Posted - 12/08/2005 : 06:43
Well done Robert.  Now we have a chance to help you and expand our knowledge.  I'll mail John Turner and alert him.....


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Mixman
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Posted - 14/08/2005 : 07:54
Hello Robert, have you seen all the arcticles referred to in the earlier parts of this quote? Green end house was a very important focus for the early development of Earby into an industrial town. The handloom weavers (including I suspect my G.G.Grandfather) bringing their "pieces" when completed to sell. Most of my knowledge about the house is from the Craven Herald articles written by John Hartley and James Lindleys booklet. Hope we can help you. regards john


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