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Note: The Burley Local History & Archive Group are running x2 websites in parallel. The old site is found here Burley Community Library - Site Map, the new one is the one you're reading. Over the next few months the content of the old one will be migrated to here.
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BLH&AG - History of group & origin of the Burley Archive
Burley Local History
​Structured to mimic the physical & digital collections of the Burley Archive.
Local History 1
- AER - Aerial Photography
- ARE - Areas of Burley District 
  • Stead/Stede - Roman outpost, Roman Road, Manor of Stede,
  • Burley in Wharfedale​
  • Burley Moor 
  • Burley Woodhead
- BUI - Buildings & Properties - BUS - Businesses (Major employers)
  • Cotton Mills at Greenholme (1790 - 1849)
  • Worsted Mills at Greenholme (1849 - 1968)​
  • Greenholme Mills Industrial Estate (1968 - 2018)
  • ​Arthur Newsome Limited
  • Milk Marketing Board
- BUS - Shops & Business Premises
(Burley District Guide to Shops & Business Premises) 
  • Main Street (east) (from Burley House to Station Road) (Part Done)    
  •     - Rayner - Blacksmiths of Burley in Wharfedale & Woodhead
  •     - Corn Mill Lane - The Corn Mill
  •     - The Malt Shovel  
  •     - Fred Midgley Butchers​
  • Station Road   
  •     - Victoria Cafe aka Cheshire Cat  
  • Main Street (west) (from Station Road to Leatherbank) 
    •    Peel Place
    •    North Parade
    •    Hill Top, Burley in Wharfedale
      •     Jake Wright / Guzdeks
      •     Burley in Wharfedale Social Club aka the Rifle Club
    •    Sun Lane, Burley in Wharfedale ​
  • Ilkley Road & Coutances Way - Little Esscroft  
  • Burley Woodhead​ ​
  • Bradford Road
- DIR - Directories (Trade & People)
- EDU - Education  (Intro - pre-19th century) 
   - Burley District Schools list
  •    - Township School (1817-1905)
  •    - Burley Woodhead School (1832-1976)
  •    - Greenholme (Mills) School (1856-1897)
  •    - Aireville Terrace school site (1898-1999): Burley National (1898-1950), Burley CofE Primary (1950-1972) and Burley CofE First (1972-1999)
  •    - Non-denominational Sunday & Day School (1867-1905) Burley Main Street Provided School (1905-1950)
- FAM - Families & People
Families & People 1
  •     Fison Family - East Anglia & Bradford (Draft)
  •     William Fison (1820-1900)
  •     Forster & Arnold-Forster Families​ 
  •     William Edward Forster (1818-1886)
  • ​      - Florence Vere O'Brien (Arnold-Forster)(1854-1936)
  • ​    Horsfall Family
  •     Preston Family - Burley in Wharfedale
  •     Whitaker Family
​Families & People 2
  •    Job Senior (1780-1857)
  •    John Peele Clapham (1801-1876)
  •    Thomas Emsley (1816-1885) 
  •       - Thomas Emsley 1880 Last Will & Testament
  •       - The Rouse Inheritance
  •    John Shepherd (1816-1902)
  • ​   William Lawrence (1816-1890)
  •    Charles Ingham Black (1821-1896)
  •    ​William 'Billy' Swain (1827-1910)
  •    Thomas Clark (1837-1898)
  •    John Lupton (1840-1915)
  •    Joseph Hartley Foulds (1851-1943)
  •    William Watson (1858-1935)
  •    Mary Chorley née Kimber (1865-1936)
  •    Harry Sutton Chorley (1869-1939)
  • ​   Robert Peel (1891-1965)
  •    James Knights Trench OBE (1893-1969)
  •    Walter Flesher (1894-1984)
- FILM - Film, Stills, Videos & Oral History - GEN - General including Past Events and Miscellany
Local History 2
​ - GOV - Governance 
  •     National Government
  •     - Education Department
  •     - Transport Department
  •        - Wharfedale Trunk Road
  •     - War Office - World War 1
  •     - War Office - World War 2
  •     1601 - 1894 Burley Township
  •     1854 - 1894 Burley Local Board of Health 
  •     1895 - 1937 Burley Urban District Council
  •     1889 - 1974 West Riding of Yorkshire County Council
  •        - Scalebor Park Hospital (Private Mental Asylum)
  •        - The Court Children's Home & Wharfedale Assessment Centre
  •     1937 - 1974 Ilkley Urban District Council
  •     1974 onwards Bradford Metropolitan District Council
  •     1974 - 2006 Ilkley Parish Council including Burley & 2018 onwards Ilkley Town Council
  •     2006 onwards Burley Parish Council
- MAP - Maps & Plans - NEWS - Papers, Magazines
  •     - Wharfedale Pictorial 1935, 1936, 1937 and 1938
- OBJ - Objects
    - Duke of Wellington's soldier flash
- ORG - Organisations
  •     - History of Burley Brass Bands
  •     - Scouts & Guides
  •     - Aeromodellers (John Horton)
- POP - Population Studies - REL - Religion 
  •    - Roman Catholic; Plymouth Brethren; Primitive Methodists; Wesleyan; Methodists; Church of England; Salem United Congregationalists.
- RES - Research
  •    - Burley Woodhead Mills by Alun Clark (BLH&AG) May 2023
​- SPO - Sports
  •     -  Athletics
  •     -  Burley Football History upto 1940
  •     -  History of Burley District Cricket
  •     -  Greenholme Girls cricket
  •     -  Tennis
  •     -  Burley Lions Amateur Rugby League Football Club (2008-2013)
- TRA - Transport
  •     - Turnpikes & Packhorse Trails
  •     - Burley District Public Transport
  •        - Stage Coaches
  •        - Trackless Trams or Trolleybuses
  •        - Burley District Bus Services
  • ​          - Harrogate Road Car Company
  •     - Burley in Wharfedale Railway Station
  •     - Personal Transport - horses, pony & trap, bicycles, electric cars, motor vehicles, motorbikes
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