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Yeadon, New Road c.1960
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New Road was part of an old turnpike road, where a wagon drawn by five horses was charged 1/6d. In the mid 19th century, there were over twenty-five mills working in the town, but the boom and bust years of trade protection caused much unemployment. This former agricultural village gave way to rows and rows of workers' cottages, many of which remain. Nearby Yeadon Airport began as the Yorkshire Aeroplane Club in 1933, and in the Second World War it was used as a test site for Lancaster bombers. Jet planes arrived in 1984.

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A Selection of Memories from Yeadon

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Yeadon

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Mr Gooch And Mr Healey
I was at Westfield Junior School from 65 to 70, we lived at Westfield Oval. Mr Gooch's regime of daily repetitive and monotonous chanting of times tables has held me in good stead all my life. He also had a unique method of calling the register whilst transposing first letters of christian names and surnames so as Mark Bradley I became Bark Madly for 5 long years. Shirley Wright wasn't too impressed ...see more
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Yeadon 1950 1961
Moved to Yeadon from Sheffield in 1950 first we lived at Hawthorne drive then moved to cemetery rd lived in the white bungalow just passed the cemetery gates, and opposite Browns farm. Went to school with John Brown and my best friend at school was Terry Hawkridge, westfield infants then westfield junior school moved to Benton park when it first opened, left school in 1961 and joined the RAF as a cook did 18 years ...see more
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Yeadon 1961
We moved to Yeadon in 1961 when I was 7, my dad worked for Timothy Whites Chemists who had their head office in Leeds. We moved into a new house 2 Whackhouse Close and I went to Westfield Primary which was just across the road. I loved that school, my favourite teacher was Mr. Gooch.At age 11, I went to Aireborough Grammar- that was a very good school too. By 1965 we had moved to Guiseley but my grandparents bought our old house and I ...see more
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Childhood Memories I Will Always Hold On Too
I grow up in Yeadon then moved away at age 12yrs old. Then I moved to the U.S.A at age 16yrs old. All my childhood memories are of Yeadon. I went to Westfield then Benton Park. I came back for 3 months in 2009 and had the time of my life. I still love Yeadon and have even more memories to hold on to. It was like I went back in time - not much had changed. I wanted to stay there but was not ...see more
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Added 31 July 2013

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