But ten years later Paul’s connection with another story in the paper is no laughing matter. By this time Paul and Sarah Ann’s daughter Ellen was 35 and living at home at The Fox and Goose along with her sister Mary, a fustian tailoress and brother James, a clerk for a courier. Ellen had no […]
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It’s been a while since I posted any ancestral info on this blog but here’s another branch of my family who kept pubs in Hebden Bridge and Heptonstall. Living just a couple of houses away from William Wilkinson at Old Chamber in 1841 was a slater named John Taylor, his wife Mary and their seven […]
IN THE THICK OF THE FIGHT. HEPTONSTALL SOLDIER’S INTERESTING DESCRIPTION. 17th November, 1916, Todmorden and District News Private Harry Taylor (King’s Royal Rifles), eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Taylor, White Lion Hotel, Heptonstall, has written the following interesting account of the recent Big Push: ‘About seven o’clock the night before the battle we […]
On the occasion of his golden wedding anniversary in 1928 the Todmorden and District news wrote the following account of Daniel’s life. He was born in 1854 at Lane Side, Wadsworth, being one of family of ten children, and spent the early portion of his life in that village. As far as I can ascertain […]
It was September 2020. Having watched a YouTube video about the ruined Shore Baptist chapel I was eager to visit the site. I couldn’t find it on a current map but I kew it was up a very steep road out of Cornholme so with a friend’s willing assistance we set off by car. We […]
It all began with one man and his dog. The man, Edward, was a shepherd. I didn’t catch the name of his sheepdog but she was having a jolly old time swimming around in an old bath tub in the sheep field as I chatted to her master. I was on Edge Lane, between Heptonstall […]
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