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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


L Beckwith
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Mixman
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Posted - 11/08/2004 : 18:30
Hi Lee, I have a collection of Local newspaper articles (mostly Craven Herald and written by John Hartley)from the early 1900's which DOC & I are going to be transcribing onto this site. I've read through many of (100+ pages) and there are references to Green End House in them, I can't be sure how many. Unfortunately they all need transcribing and checking so take a while to do. If you are interested in helping us do this then any help would be very welcome.

Please get in touch

jct


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Stanley
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Posted - 12/08/2004 : 05:12
Lee, punch Green End into the site search engine and you'll come up with a lot of references. There's a good pic of the house in about 1890 and in the 'Bracewell Story' in Staney's View you'll find quite a lot of info. If there's anything specific you have questions about give me a shout. The Mixman archive will be good when Doc stops running round to make money to pay for the site rent but don't hold your breath, he's in acquisitive mode at the moment.


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handlamp
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Posted - 12/08/2004 : 19:46
From before I was born in November 1925 up to me `joining up' in December 1943 Hartley Ryecroft (whose wife, I think, was a Bracewell) lived in Green End House and farmed at Green End Farm (across the road from the house, see `photographs, girl with little dog on road)


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Lee
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Posted - 12/08/2004 : 23:27
My parents bought the house from Hartley Ryecroft in 1978 or there abouts. I remember him coming to the house to meet the family just before we bought it to see if he approved. Guess he must have he sold it to them


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Stanley
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Posted - 13/08/2004 : 04:53
Good stuff about Green End House. How about you both writing down what you know about it? It's all good infor and that's what a lot of the site is about.

Ted, I notice that you cite the old pic I put up on the site of the little girl with the dog in the middle of the road. I have never been certain that this was up at Green End but am 90 percent sure. Do you recognise it as being there? The trouble with a lot of the old pics is that nobody has written anything on the back to identify them.


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Lee
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Posted - 13/08/2004 : 20:35
Stanley
Picture you think is New Road is actually Top Of Red Lion. Walled Area to righthand side is the car park today. Left hand side is Pickles farm. View today pretty much same

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Stanley
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Posted - 14/08/2004 : 03:38
I'm a bit confused as to whether I'm in debt to Ian or Lisa! Will check it out after the weekend. I've always been worried about that one and have been down to Green End to check it twice and never satisfied myself. I often wonder about that little girl and the dog......


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Lee
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Posted - 14/08/2004 : 11:21
Sorry for the confusion i wasnt sure about the photo being New road so i asked my brother Ian to have a look. He was the one who recognised it as red Lion.


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Stanley
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Posted - 15/08/2004 : 19:03
Thanks Lee. That clears that one up. I'll go down and do a present day pic to compare with it. Cheers! S.


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handlamp
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Posted - 17/08/2004 : 13:00
On viewing the photo again I agree that it is not, as I thought, taken from the top of New Road facing towards Langroyd Road. If it had been the farm buildings on the left should have shown a barn door there and the high wall of the kitchen garden for Green End House on the right.

I can't remember much more about the location, I think Mrs. Ryecroft's sister (a spinster)lived in the house at the Langroyd Road end of G.E. House, and for a at least a few years, Mrs. Wraw, at the Green End Road end.

My only other recollection (it is 60 years ago) was of a pet snake, I think owned by the Hartley's son, which had got behind the stone gate post up against, what we called `The Stone Row'. These gate posts had formerly borne the double gates located at the top of New Road in the `good old days'.

Hartley, or his farm man, delivered milk to the houses in the near vicinity on foot each morning and evening, measuring it out into jugs which the houseowners had left out on their doorsteps.

I doubt whether Hartley would have still been alive Lee in 1978 as he must have been about 60 in 1940, could it have been his son who sold the house.


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Stanley
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Posted - 17/08/2004 : 17:14
Lee, I've been down to Red Lion Street and done the modern pic and posted it on the site. It is just as you said, the only thing that has changed is the demolition of the cottages opposite the Red Lion. I have left the original pic with a bloke at Pickles' Farm and he's going to enquire to see whether anyone knows anything about the young lass with the dog which is the thing that fascinates me.


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Lee
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Posted - 17/08/2004 : 18:42
Could have been his son, although i remember he seemed very old and was Chauffeur driven. I will ask my parents. The kitchen gardens were still there when we moved in. and the barn across was used has a garage.now houses.Do you remember if the house had a large cellar.


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Stanley
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Posted - 18/08/2004 : 05:39
Lee, that was a bit confusing. Are you talking about Green End?


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Lee
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Posted - 18/08/2004 : 20:01
Stanley, sorry was replying to headlamp should have made it clearer.



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handlamp
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Posted - 18/08/2004 : 20:21
As you describe the person as `very old' it could well have fitted Hartley himself who, when I knew him was very slim and fit for his age in those days. I think the house had a cellar but can't be sure as I never went in.


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