Eric Wolstenholme Drawings
The five drawings of Old Burley are by northern artist, Eric Wolstenholme, of Kirkham, Lancashire, who donated them to the Burley Community Council & inherited by the Burley Archive.
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Iron Row
The cottages known as Iron Row (and originally New Row) were built about 1800 by the Greenholme Cotton Mill owner Jonas Whitaker for his workers. The one-up, one-down properties remained virtually unchanged until the Greenholme Estate was auctioned off in 1968. Iron Row for 160 years echoed to the steps of the numerous mill workers who passed by, to and from their work.
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Township School, Hill Top
This building was erected in 1862 to replace the old Mechanics' Institute and Day School which had stood at the bottom of Station Road in the first half of the nineteenth century. The building remained in use as an Infants' school until 1922. It also functioned as the meeting place of the Burley Local Board of Health and its successor the Burley Urban District Council until 1905. Later the Township building was used as a practice room for Burley Brass Band. Until recently it served as extra educational premises and was a Craft and Design Centre for Teachers in the West Riding and Bradford.
When it was bought in the 1990's by Burley Developments Ltd the moneys were used to set up the Burley Education Trust (now part of BWCT), a charity to aid education in the village. The buildings have been pleasantly refurbished by its new owners in keeping with the character of Burley's Conservation Area. |
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The Grange or Burley Grange
Built by John Peele Clapham, the founder of Salem Church, in the early 1840's. It then passed into other hands, the Stansfields. Bought by Thomas Emsley in 1860, followed by James Hodson.
In 1905 the house was sold to Burley Urban District Council for public use. The park was sold in 1910. Under Ilkley Urban District Council from 1937, it continued to be used as Council Offices and to house the public library. For over 80 years, part of it was leased to the Grange (Men's) Club. The whole of the building is now in private hands - apartments on the first floor & businesses on the ground floor. |
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Burley House (now Burley Court)
Built by Thomas Maude, a poet, in the eighteenth century, on the site of an earlier mansion. The Maudes, members of the local gentry, had lived in Burley from at least the sixteenth century and were major land owners in the area. The house passed into the hands of other families, notably the Andertons and the Horsfalls, in the nineteenth century. Since that time it has been a private school, a hotel, a restaurant and, in recent years, headquarters for commercial organisations. In 2018 it was converted to apartments & other housing built in the grounds. The site was renamed Burley Court.
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Queens Hall (Lecture Hall)
Originally known as the Lecture Hall, it was built in 1868 by Wm. Fison & Co. The hall was built to provide recreational and educational activities in the village. Greenholme Mills School used the section of the hall, now known as the Annexe, until 1897.
The two stone celtic crosses in front of the hall commemorate William Fison and William Forster. The hall was renamed the Queen's Hall in celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953. |