BBC News - Yarm heritage centre opens with silver nose and nightclub lion on show
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-68047501
Yarm heritage centre opens with silver nose and nightclub lion on show
Yarm's revamped town hall now houses a heritage centre celebrating the area's rich history.
BBC News - Swaffham bids for cash to continue heritage project
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-68049082
Swaffham bids for cash to continue heritage project
A Norfolk town has bid for £250,000 towards repairing its high street's historical buildings and shopfronts.
BBC News - Clitheroe's history explored in woman's wartime diary - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv2qx7xnqj1o
Clitheroe's history explored in woman's wartime diary
Elsie's Wartime Diary details the war years according to a woman who grew up in Clitheroe.
TONIGHT
The first of a new four part documentary series called Born From The Same Stranger starts on ITV1 at 9pm tonight where individuals donor conceived find out about their blood relatives using DNA testing
It has a churchyard & is notable for only having 4 vicars in it's first 100 years. /2
The magnificent Church of All Saints of Salterhebble, Skircoat Green & Copley, Halifax.
From Peel's Act of 1843 the parish of Salterhebble, Skircoat Green & Copley was created from Halifax Parish & John Henry Warneford was planted as vicar & worshipped from temporary rooms. With the support of local people & business people such as the Holdsworth's of Shaw Fold Mill land was purchased for a Day School (1854) & Church (1858). The Church was gothic in style & extended in 1874. /1
Repair work to start on historic Keighley cobbled street
More than £190,000 is being invested in re-laying the "setts" in Thwaites Brow Road
Tonight researching 2 sisters age 16 & 15 in 1898 who ran away from Leeds to Halifax 3 weeks previously. They were sentenced to 1 calendar month in HMP Wakefield for stealing 2 straw hats, 3 capes & 1 necktie from the cloak room of a school in Halifax. They were 4 feet 11 & 10 inches tall. In a newspaper report their mother said they were unmanageable, whilst at home they seemed to think they could do as they please & expected others to stay up until all hours of the night until they came home
The magnificent backdrop of Halifax train station opened in 1855 replaced the original station built in 1844 which was 200 metres further west of this location. It was designed by Thomas Butterworth & is in ashlar stone. It is grade 2 listed & now houses the nursery of the Eureka Museum. The on platform view of the station is a great disappointment compared with this view
BBC News - Fragments of Anglo-Saxon cross go on display at East Riddlesden Hall
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-68037505
Fragments of Anglo-Saxon cross go on display at East Riddlesden Hall
A section was buried under a driveway while the another was found in a dry stone wall decades later.
