Category Archives: History

All Our Stories – Parkinson’s Park Puts Digital Record on History Pin

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

As part of our heritage lottery fund (HLF) grant, we have to provide a permanent digital record of our All Our Stories project.  The chosen HLF media for doing this is History Pin, and we have just finished setting up … Continue reading →

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All Our Stories – Out of the Mists of Time

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

The purpose of the All Our Stories, HLF grant, is to tell the story of the ‘ordinary’ people, who have used the Park land down the ages. We knew the recent history,  from when the Parkinson brothers acquiring the land … Continue reading →

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All Our Stories – Tracking The Past

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

Part of the success of the geophysics survey at the end of July will come from knowing what might be found – this is where the paper archive research has a vital part to play.    Barbara has therefore been to … Continue reading →

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All Our Stories – Film Premier of “Parkinson’s Park – A New Chapter”

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

Between the start of the Park’s regeneration in November 2011, and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in June 2012,  David Myers, local filmmaker and ex Crompton Parkinson employee, filmed the revival of the Park and its place in the social life … Continue reading →

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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 – 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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Barbara’s Bench

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

Anyone going to the Park for a brisk winter walk, will notice a new addition to the landscape – Barbara’s Bench; or to be precise, the bench Barbara and brother, Alan Winfield, have donated to the Park in honour of … 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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Another Philanthropist For Guiseley

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

The post on the blue plaque for Jonathan Peate, prompted the comments from Ken Roberts and Richard Thackray, that Guiseley had an earlier ‘resident’ who had handed the philanthropy baton on to Jonathan Peate; who, in turn, handed it to … Continue reading →

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Sandringham Sends A New Jubilee Tree

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

Following the publicity about our stolen Jubilee Oak,  we have received an email from Mr Alexander George, Deputy Land Agent for the Sandringham Estate,  offering us a new Jubilee Oak.  This has now arrived safely,  and is a few years … Continue reading →

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