I suggested we all sing happy birthday for Emily:
I suggested we all sing happy birthday for Emily:
Pop up park!
Leeds Town Hall: home of the Leeds International Piano competition
Embroidery exhibition – last one here is Alan Bennett, a Leeds boy.
Preparations for an outdoor concert on Friday
Nimble feet at the summer dance party at the end of the season. Free!
Then off to find the Farrar Academy. My great great grandmother was living in the academy in 1861 as a servant but I’d not been able to find its location and I began to think the building had been demolished. But with a little help from a few people I managed to find it. It’s right next to Francis Crossley’s mansion and in the same parking lot as a church that’s now a muslim Community center. I asked a couple of guys if they knew anything about it. They didn’t, but when I showed them a diagram of the building that I’d obtained one of them helped me work it out. And i know it must be a right place because although it is now closed it had been a health centre called School House. So here Elizabeth Ann lived, coming from her birth in Lily Hall Heptonstal.
It turns out that my Wrigley relatives built all this buildings between 1858 and 1895. And these are just a fraction that could could get to within half an hour’s walk from where I’m staying. I’m still researching it but it seems likely that they actually built the mill I’m staying in!
Then to the doggy obedience show in the park.
I met up with my high school friend Judith for lunch in York. I was able to get a train from Hebden Bridge right to York. It took an hour and a half and I watched the landscape change from deep narrow valleys to the open rolling wheat fields of the Vale of York. The building materials also changed from soot blackened stone to gentile brick.
After Judith left I stayed for a while and attended evensong in the Minster.
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