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Gascoignes, Aberford Road

c1985. View of Aberford Road showing Gascoignes public house at no.6, named after the Gascoigne family who were major landowners and colliery owners in the Garforth area. The pub ...

Gascoignes, Aberford Road

c1985. View shows Gascoignes public house at no.6 Aberford Road. The positions of proposed wall signs are marked on the photo. The pub is now (2012) known as the Lord Gascoigne, h...

M1 motorway, construction, Barwick Road Bridge

1997. View of the M1 motorway expansion under construction showing the newly built bridge to carry Barwick Road across the motorway. Image courtesy of Leslie Cole.

M1 motorway, construction, from Garforth railway bridge

1997. View looking from Garforth railway bridge showing the new extension to the M1 motorway under construction. In the distance is the bridge built to carry Barwick Road over the...

Selby Road, M1 Motorway extension, construction

1997. View shows Selby Road passing the site, on the left, where construction work is starting on the new extension to the M1 motorway. This would be completed in 1999, linking th...

Selby Road, M1 Motorway extension, construction

1997. View from Selby Road showing the construction site for the new extension to the M1 motorway. This was to be completed in 1999 and linked the M1 with the A1(M) at Aberford. I...

Selby Road, M1 Motorway extension, construction

1997. View shows a site off Selby Road which was to be developed as a new extension to the M1 motorway. This section of the motorway, opened on 4th February 1999, was to link the ...

Selby Road, M1 Motorway extension, construction

1997. View shows work taking place in preparation for the construction of a new extension to the M1 motorway. Seen here close to Selby Road, this extension, which was completed in...

Isabella Pit, postcard view

Undated. Image shows a postcard view of Isabella Pit, located on Ash Lane. It was named after the eldest daughter of the proprietor, Richard Oliver Gascoigne of Parlington Hall, a...

Coupland Road, Salvation Army Citadel, interior view

Undated. View shows a Harvest Festival at the Salvation Army Citadel on Coupland Road.

Coupland Road, Salvation Army Citadel

c1920s. View shows a group of Salvation Army members outside their Citadel on Coupland Road. This was a wooden building with a corrugated iron roof situated just off Main Street. ...

Barwick Road, Sisters' Pit, strike breakers

August 1919. This image shows strike breakers at Sisters' Pit (Garforth Colliery) during a miners' strike in 1919. Police protection is being given to the workers, including a sai...

Sisters' Pit, exposed shaft

Undated. View shows an exposed pit shaft on the site of the old Sisters' Pit, which was found at the rear of Safeway supermarket (now Tesco), seen in the background. The shaft was...

Sisters' Villas, from site of Sisters' Pit

Undated. View looking towards Sisters' Villas from the site of Sisters' Pit, at the time that an exposed pit shaft appeared on the site, to the rear of what was then Safeway super...

Ninelands Lane, Trench Pit, officials

1919. View shows officials at the Trench Pit on Ninelands Lane, alongside sailors brought in by the government to protect the pit, during a strike by the miners in 1919. On the ba...

Ninelands Lane, Trench Pit

Undated. View shows Trench Pit in Ninelands Lane, which was sunk in 1899. It was named after owner Col. Frederick Charles Trench, who married Isabella, heiress of the Gascoigne fa...

Main Street, miners' stall

1921. View shows a stall set up in Main Street during the miners' strike of 1921 selling cheap food, including fish at 3d. (old pence) per pound, to support the miners and their f...

Aberford Road, Isabella Pit,

Undated. View shows a group of workers who volunteered to keep the coal moving at Isabella Pit when the miners came out on strike. Miners' strikes took place at the pit in 1919 an...

Colliery Fly-Line, off Aberford Road

Undated. View shows a train on the Colliery Fly-Line, the single track railway built in the 1830s to carry coal from Garforth to Aberford. It is here conveying passengers; the car...

Hawk's Nest Wood, Colliery Fly-Line

Undated. View shows a steam engine with carriage behind leaving the engine shed at Hawk's Nest Wood, on the Colliery Fly Line running between Aberford and Garforth. The building o...

Parlington Woods, Colliery Fly-Line

Undated. View shows the Manning-Wardle built steam engine 'Empress' at the Light Arch in Parlington Woods. This is part of the Colliery Fly-Line which carried coal from the pits a...

Colliery Fly-Line, passenger truck

Undated. View shows a truck on the colliery fly-line, the single track railway that ran from the Garforth pits to the coal staithes at Aberford and access to the Great North Road....

Parlington Woods, Colliery Fly-Line

Undated. View shows the Garforth-Aberford Colliery fly-line passing through Parlington Woods. This was a single track railway built in the 1830s to carry coal from Garforth to Abe...

Aberford Road, Isabella Pit

Undated. Isabella Pit, located north of Aberford Road off Ash Lane, was the first major shaft to be sunk in Garforth. Opening in 1833, it was owned by the Gascoigne family, the ma...

Aberford Road, Isabella Pit

Undated. View shows Isabella Pit, one of the major collieries in Garfoth, situated to the north of Aberford Road off Ash Lane. The 140 yard shaft was sunk in 1833 by the Gascoigne...

Barwick Road, Sisters' Pit

Undated. View shows Sisters' Pit, also known as Garforth Colliery, situated off Barwick Road. This coal mine was sunk by the Gascoigne family in 1843 and continued production unti...

Barwick Road, Sisters' Pit

Undated. View of Sisters' Pit off Barwick Road, a coal shaft sunk by the Gascoigne family in 1843. It was later also known as Garforth Colliery and mining continued here until it ...

Manor Farm Agricultural College, exterior view

Undated. Exterior view of Manor Farm Agricultural College situated on Barwick Road. This was an experimental farm and dairy unit run by Leeds University which operated here betwee...

East Garforth Gun Emplacement, 1914-18 war

c1914-18. View shows men (and dogs) at the East Garforth Gun Emplacement during the First World War. The caption underneath calls them 'The Pathmakers'. Photograph courtesy of Mis...

Jabez Woolley, brick manufacturer

Undated. Photograph of Jabez Woolley, a successful brick manufacturer who lived at The Hollies on Church Lane, a house he built using his own bricks. He was a regular railway comm...

Jabez Woolley, brick

Undated. View shows a brick produced by Jabez Woolley, brick manufacturer, of 147 Elland Road. This brick, which has the name 'Woolley' inscribed in it, was retained when the tram...

Church Lane, The Hollies

Undated. View shows The Hollies, a large house on Church Lane situated beside the junction with Station Fields. It was built and originally owned by Jabez Woolley, a local brick m...

Air Chief Marshal Sir Augustus Walker, D.S.O., D.F.C.

Undated. View shows Sir Augustus 'Gus' Walker at his desk. This notable Garforth resident lived in a large house at the corner of Lidgett Lane and Lowther Road. A rugby internatio...

Pickerings's Farm, haymaking

1922. View shows two employees of Pickering's Farm enjoying a break during the busy haymaking time. Their clothes are typical of the period with gaiters over their boots. Pickerin...

Station Road, Tom Pickering's motor car

1924. View shows Tom Pickering, of Pickering's farm and butchers, seated in his motor car in his yard on Station Road, alongside passenger Mr. C. Robinson. The car was one of a se...

Mr J.H. Pickering, butcher, and his wife

Undated. View shows Mr. J.H. Pickering and his wife, well-known figures in Garforth around the early 20th century. Mr. Pickering was a farmer and founder of Pickering's retail and...

Garforth Parochial School, cricket team

c1933-34. View of Garforth Parochial School cricket team in 1933-34. Mr. Rayson, headmaster, is on the right. Team members are, from left : back row - Ian Maskill, Jim Shipton, Ji...

Garforth Parochial School, pupils

c1931. Photograph shows a group of girls at Garforth Parochial School around 1931, engaged in a dancing activity.

Garforth Parochial School, class photograph

February 1924. Staff and pupils at Garforth Parochial School in 1924. Standing on the far right is the headmaster, Mr. Thompson, who was to retire that year after nearly 30 years....

Garforth Parochial School, hockey team

1927. Photograph shows the girls' hockey team at Garforth Parochial School. The players pictured are, from left : back row - Connie Mosby, Vera Knowles, Ivy Browning, Lillian Nich...

Garforth Parochial School, football team

c1931-32. Members of the football team of Garforth Parochial School are photographed with the Gascoigne Shield; this successful side also won the Barkston Ash Cup that season. Mr....

St. Joseph's R.C. School, class photograph

1927. Image shows pupils at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic School, situated on Barley Hill Road. This was a small school and the picture includes all those registered at the time. Th...

Barley Hill Road School, class photograph

c1947. Photograph shows a class of children at Barley Hill Road School around 1947. The school opened in 1907.

St. Mary's Church, choir

1950s. View shows the choir of St. Mary's Church, the parish church of Garforth, gathered outside the church on Church Lane. Among those in the picture are Mr. Ramsden, Lawrence C...

Oak Estate, street party

1953. View showing residents of the Oak Estate (possibly Oak Avenue) enjoying a street party to celebrate the cornonation of Queen Elizabeth II. Children are seated at a long tabl...

Miners' Strike, supporters

Undated. View shows a large group of people who conducted a walk to support striking miners in Garforth. The miners were on strike in 1919, 1921 and in 1926 as part of the General...

Manor Farm Agricultural College, dairy maids

c1925. View of a group of dairy maids on a training couse at Manor Farm Agricultural College on Barwick Road. They are dressed in long white aprons and white caps for lessons in m...

King George V Silver Jubilee Committee, group photograph

1935. View shows members of the King George V Silver Jubilee Committee, the entertainment and ground committee responsible for the recreation ground built on land opposite Barley ...

Garforth Villa Football Club, team photograph

1924. View shows members of Garforth Villa Football team who were based at Garforth Working Mens Club. The photo was taken on the bowling green at the rear of the club, with the b...

Garforth Fire Brigade, group photograph

Undated. Photograph of Garforth Fire Brigade, probably taken in the Gasworks yard on Barwick Road with the railway in the background. The trailer pump suggests it was taken around...