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Low Way 1935
The shop in
the picture is Brumfitt and tooth where, for many years, the Post Office was
situated. It sold many things including shoes and drapery and was run under
the name Brumfitt and Booth in the late 1800's as well as this century. On
the left is the Weslevan Methodist Chapel built in 1817, and renovated in
1906. Four cottages demolished about 1989 are shown. During the Second World
War this land was used as a small‑holding by Mr Burns; the present house
were erected in the space in 1968. The shadows are cast by four cottages
demolished in 1941 : there is now a bungalow on the site. This area of the
village was owned by the Headley Estates and gradually sold off into private
ownership
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Low way
This row of cottages in Low way was demolished around 1953. These four
one-up one-down cottages each had a fire oven and sink provided. Outside in
the yard each had a coal house, but shared one earth toilet. At the end of
the cottages nearest to the Church Mr Hines kept pigs in an old shed. A
bungalow, soon to be demolished for development, now stands on the site of
the cottages. At the other end of the cottages was an old wooden barn, also
now demolished, where Mr Mawer ran a joinery business.
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Bramham Church
Two views - One (top) taken from what was is now the Old Vicarage and a
closer view with New Road just visible, before houses were built.
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The Interior of
Bramham Church
This
photograph was taken before 1935 when major alterations took place. A marble
pulpit can be seen on the right. No roof arch over the chancel existed until
1935 when it was erected in memory of Lord Halifax with money given by Lady
Bingley, his daughter. The present side Altar on the left was put there
after this photograph was taken; in those days it was the doorway leading to
the organ bellows. The present pulpit, now on the left hand side of the
chancel, and the priest's stalls were designed and made by a former Vicar,
Canon Hicks. The mediaeval oak panelling from which the priest's stalls are
made was found by Canon Hicks in joiner Mr Mawer's barn on Low Way. The
Estate Foreman Carpenter, Mr Alf Martin, made a key cabinet and two
candlesticks for the church
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Bramham Churchyard
The path to what was then the Vicarage can clearly he seen as can the extent
of the land belonging to the Vicarage. Part of the
Vicarage was
demolished in the late 1920’s. In the background
you can see sheds, used as slaughterhouses for Mr Cass the butcher.
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The Vicarage
Institute
This was built in the grounds of the Vicarage by the then Vicar's wife, Mrs
Wadeson, about 1902, for the use of the church congregation. You could play
billiards and table tennis and, for a few pence, have a bath, a boon in
times when few houses had bathrooms. After the First World War it was rented
to a Captain Branson and his wife. Mrs Wadeson lived there for a time after
the death of her husband. This could be her in the picture. Mr Peacock and
later Mr Wright, a gamekeeper, lived there. Mr Kendrew bought it when he
retired from being a coal merchant and it is still in private ownership.
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Bramham Church 18
May 1902
Showing the
spire after it was struck by
lightning
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Memorial to Lord
and Lady Bingley Newspaper clipping from the Yorkshire Post,
showing Dr Ramsey. Archbishop of Canterbury, blessing the
memorial to Lord & Lady Bingley on 4
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