Ellers in the early 1960s

Photographs by Leonard Davy of Low Fold House, with additional thanks to Ken Davy, Keith King and Robin Longbottom for providing the copies and notes.


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Looking down Ellers from Cryer Row. The tall man with the dog appears to be Texas or Harold "Tex" Rogers, a well-known character in the village in the 1960s. His wife Phyllis was also well known in the village.



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Looking along Cryer Row. Willie Riley, standing with his pipe, lived in the cottage at the far end. Billy Pye lived in the one nearest the road, a keen shooting man his gun dog can be seen looking out from its kennel.



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Willie Riley's huts and pigeon loft at the end of Cryer Row, Willie is standing admiring one of his windmills on top of a hut.



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A view of the cottages in Jackson Place, which run parallel to Ellers Road and faced onto Baring Square.



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The three storey building on the right of the photograph was known as the Dolphin 'Oyle. The top floor was a weaving room with cottages below, a case of living under the shop and not over it. The cottages in Dolphin Row are to the left.



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This row of cottages was called Dolphin Row and originally backed onto the cottages in Ethel Street. The properties have now been knocked through to form single dwellings.



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The postman looks as though he is querying an address with an elderly resident of Ethel Street. The cottages on the right backed onto Dolphin Row.



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Gott Hill Farm at the bottom of Ellers Road photographed from the gable of the cottages on Park Row, the bottom row of cottages at Ellers.



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Gott Hill Farm photographed from Hall Drive and showing the wall along Ellers Road before it was lowered and replaced by a concrete post and rail fence.



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Sutton House with Gott Hill Farm on the right. Greenroyd Mill chimney and water tower can just be seen between the properties.