Category Archives: All Our Stories

All Our Stories – Piecing the Evidence Together

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

Local history is like a detective game:by itself a scrap of information seems worthless,  but, when put together with a pile of other scraps, slowly, if you are luck,  a picture will begin to emerge. Following a trawl around local … Continue reading →

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All Our Stories – Butterflies and Little Beasties by Josie Brooks

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

Besides the geology and history of the park, the All Our Stories project wants to tell the ecological story of the land, as it goes hand in hand with the other two subjects.  Over the past few years two general … Continue reading →

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All Our Stories – The Spirit of An Old Tannery at Kelcliffe

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

It started with a newspaper cutting from the Leeds Intelligencer,  24 October 1780, found by local historian, Barbara Winfield just after Christmas 2012, on the British Library Digitised Newspaper Archive website – the first indication that Kelcliffe might have originally … Continue reading →

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All Our Stories – Parkinson’s Park Was Once A Large River Delta

Posted on March 9, 2013 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

As part of the Geology project Mr David Leather MSc, a local geology expert, member of Yorkshire Geological Society and author of guide books  on the Yorkshire Dales came to survey the Park in February –  recommended by the Wharfedale … Continue reading →

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All Our Stories – Projects to Get Involved With

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

Following our success with receiving an Heritage Lottery Fund,  All Our Stories Grant (there were over 1,000 applications and 542 were successful),  we now have four research projects running to look at the history of the Park site, and its … Continue reading →

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Parkinson’s Park Now ‘Officially’ Part of The Great British Story

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

We are thrilled to hear that Parkinson’s Park has been successful in our application for a Heritage Lottery Fund ‘All Our Stories’ grant to explore the history – geological, cultural and ecological – of Parkinson’s Park. A key feature of … Continue reading →

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