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El and Hopper poster uploaded by Melissa Shipley
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#Eleven #Hopper #StrangerThings #PosterSpy @DavidKHarbour @Stranger_Things
#DidYouKnow General George Klapka, a leader of the Hungarian Uprising, stayed with #Bradford wool merchants the Hurst family in #Shipley Hall in 1849/50? Very popular with the British public, writer & humorist Jerome Klapka Jerome born #OTD 1859, took his name. https://t.co/E9v2pB5h4e
The #Shipley branch of the Penny Bank est by Sir Edward Akroyd born #OTD 1810. One of the largest #worsted manufacturers & contemporary of #TitusSalt he founded Akroydon village & lived in Bankfield, now a Museum. He was buried in #GradeIListed All Souls #Halifax in 1887.
Crowds paying respect at the #Shipley #WW1 memorial by renowned local sculptor J H Cawthra. It was moved from Nab Wood Cemetery to Crowghyll Park. #Saltaire’s memorial is in the grounds of the #UnitedReformedChurch #RemembranceSunday
Cornish Centenary lectures at Sedgefield 30th Sep. Tennant’s Leyburn October 10th and Shipley Art Gallery October 26th details at https://t.co/evXcGounXJ
#normancornish100 #normancornishcentenary #normancornish #artist #durham19
#GradeIIListed Windhill Manor #Shipley was home to the Sooty Museum in the 1990s. #Sooty was created in 1948 by #Bradford puppeteer Harry Corbett, Harry Ramsden’s nephew. A commemorative stamp was issued #OTD 1996. #IzzyWizzy #DoubleAct
All you needed to know in 1956 about the #Shipley Glen funicular #Tramway. A top speed of 20mph, tuppence to travel up & a copper to come down. Still a #BankHoliday treat for #Saltaire & #Shipley families. #YourCarriageAwaits
@airevalleydays @The_Dalesman Yes, it’s great that it’s possible to see the old market town of #Shipley, its historic buildings & the charm of the old centre. #Blitz
Thomas & Mary Ann Cooper & 8 children lived in the original thatched Bracken Hall in 1850. They were the first to sell teas on #Shipley Glen when stepping stones were the only way over the #RiverAire at #Saltaire & where sozzled poet John Nicholson slipped for the last time.
After the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 19 July 1919 was declared as the Peace Day #BankHoliday. Reactions were mixed to any notion of celebrating. A glum gathering #OTD in #Shipley. #WW1 #StillGrieving
Sir #TitusSalt’s hospital to the rescue after a terrible accident in #Shipley, four years after the formation of the 1895 #Saltaire Cycling Club. https://t.co/wIVFQAAI33
Celebrations in #Bradford for the coronation of George V & Mary of Teck at Westminster Abbey #OTD 1911. The spectacular 1873 #Grade1Listed Town Hall was designed by Lockwood & Mawson, the #Saltaire architects & built by John Ives & Son of #Shipley.
British Pathé has a film of the #RoyalVisit to Salts Mill by George V & Queen Mary #OTD 1918 with shots of crowds at Fox Corner & Victoria Rd. They wrote: “..what a pleasure it was ..to pass through the thickly populated centre of #Shipley & #Saltaire”.
"The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat." -Michael McGarel
Art: Hot Stuff by Sherry Shipley
#catquotes
Either end of the #Shipley Glen tramway, which celebrates its 124th birthday tomorrow, 18th May. Free rides for an old copper penny, a ‘new’ ha’penny & anyone in #Victorian or #Edwardian garb. #FormAnOrderlyQueue, #Saltaire! Noon to 4pm