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Nostalgic memories of Farsley's local history

Share your own memories of Farsley and read what others have said

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.

Why not add your memory today and become part of our Memories Community to help others in the future delve back into their past.

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Farsley From1937 To 53
Farsley was a great place to grow up, betwixt town and country. Mills, dams, becks, parks, stony roads, winter warmers out of clay, Meals ice cream and milk. Elmers the doctors.Frances Street School and Mr Nolan, Miss Lamb, Miss Walker, Miss Sheard, Mr Teddy Shepherd. Wesley Street, Mr Ingham, Mr Blackburn, Jimmy Walker? He loved to cane. Sledging down the Big Dipper in Red Lane. Chumping and apple ...see more
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Added 12 February 2020

Farsley From 1937 To 1955
Farsley was a great place to grow up. I lived there from 1937 till 1955. As kids we had great fun playing in the beck just above the Cricket Field, before the Council Estate was built. When it was wet we played in the Cricket Stand. In winter we made winter warmers from clay we dug out of the sides of the beck. We made lanterns from the turnips in the field next to the Cricket ground. Sledging down the ...see more
Sledging down North St
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Sledging Down North St
We lived at No1 North Street, it's not there anymore. It was quite a steep street and when it snowed (we seemed to get snow every year in those days) we would get out the sledges and spend the evening and weekends zooming down the street. The problem with this, it made the street very slippy. The people who lived in the street would throw their ashes onto the snow to aid walking. One evening one of the lads ...see more
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Added 08 April 2014

These Posts Bring Back Memories.
I moved into Land Street in 1949, age 2 and lived there until I was about 13. We lived at number 2 which is on the corner of Land Street and the street down to the Pump Well. It was good fun sledging down the street and then making the turn down to the pump well and trying to get as far as you could before running out of momentum. At 13 my father took over as Watchman at Isaac Gaunt's Grangefield ...see more
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Added 17 December 2013

Porrits
I lived in Rodley but learnt to dance at Porritts.Remember walking home across the field at the back of dance hall ( now housing estate), coming out near the mill then down Bagley Lane. Near the bottom there is a ginnel up lots of steps which came out at St Andrew's Church Rodley(demolished for housing). We would then walk down Club Lane, cut through a private path with large gates into Wesley Street,nearly home!! Also ...see more
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Added 17 August 2013

Memories Of Farsley

Grew up in Land Street, slept with my first girlfriend Wendy Gill until the pram got too small, that would be 1940, where are you now Wendy?. I still remember the Messershmitt and pilot who landed in the play field at the top of Westway. The fun and games we had as kids up to 1946, helping those friendly German prisoners build Fairfield housing estate. We moved to 43 Westway in about 1948, my father Horace, ...see more
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Added 27 January 2011

Where I Grew Up
play field at the top of Westway. The fun and games we had as kids up to 1946, helping those friendly German prisoners build fairfield housing estate. We moved to 43 Westway in about 1948, My farther Horace, Waterhouse. Mother Lucy, Brothers Barry and Eric, I think Keith was borne there, In winter we would go sledging down Land street down to the Pump Well. Is it Still there.? I remember when the snow melted the ...see more
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Added 26 January 2011

Mrs Porrits
Mrs Porrit's dance hall!  That's a name to stir memories.  Saturday nights at Mrs Porrit's, strict tempo dancing with just a spot of rock and roll, no drinking in the coverted chapel and an old black and white telly in a back room where the lads disappeared to watch wrestling. What happened to the IN-CROWD who quickstepped, foxtrotted and waltzed until a minute to midnight, then back home to bed to think about the girl you should have chatted-up but didn't have the bottle? Regards to all Pete.
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Added 10 November 2008

Pattern Weaving At Reuben Gaunts Mill
My dad got me a job as a trainee pattern weaver at Gaunts mill in the main street of Farsley. I was 16/17 at the time. I learned a lot in that 18 months or so and I also met a beautiful girl called Doreen Pankhurst, pity is I let her go... The smell of the mouse urine in the shed first thing in the morning made me feel SO sick, in the end I found another pattern weaving job and got my first ...see more
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Added 13 May 2007