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The two essential ingredients to make a steam engine work are fire and water. The fire is created in the firebox using coal, this in turn produces heat which transfers to the water to produce steam. The firebox is surrounded by a water jacket. Inside the boiler there are smoke tubes which heat the water […]

17th August, 1972Letter from Yorkshire Parish Councils Association to Mr Smith MidgleyHaworth – Future Parish CouncilMay I refer to my letter of the 4th August, 1972 and I would, comment as follows.GeneralIt would appear that the suggestion that Haworth should have a parish council after the reorganisation of local government is one that should be […]

1st January, 1895Haworth Urban District CouncilThe first meeting of the above Council was held this day at the Council Chamber Haworth.Present Messrs H Redman, A Merrall, D Kay, J Heaton, G Sladden, J Rushworth, J Redman, J Bottomley, S A Thornton, G Sunderland, E Ratcliffe, and the Reverend F Harper. 5th February 1895A deputation from […]

WD Official Launch W.D Austerity 2-8-0 90733 was officially launched into traffic on Tuesday 18th September 2007. It hauled a special train for invited guests who had helped during its long restoration. History of 90733 The locomotive was built in 1945 by Vulcan Foundry at Newton-le-Willows, works number 5200 and was sent to the Netherlands […]

Making the Time-lapse film You should have a sequence of images on a memory card, download these to your computer making sure they are numbered sequentially. Check a few random images and make a note of their jpeg size, picture left is a before and after screenshot of a time-lapse sequence of a tulip opening. […]

The animation is 128k and will take 1 – 3min on a 56k modem, you will need flash 6 or later to view it. It will auto load and start, using the buttons you can play/stop the sequence. First the spider needs to make a bridge line, this thread dangles and catch on a breeze […]

The following extracts are from Haworth Local Board of Health Minute books 1851 – 1894 and The Urban District Council Minute books 1895 – 1938 when the Council was merged with Keighley. The document is 130,000 words and there are a number of typo errors, these will be corrected over time. All place names are […]

Introduction The Village of Cross Roads with Lees is not really a village but a collection of small Hamlets that are now regarded as a Village. If you are a tourist, on your way to Haworth to pay homage to the Bronte shrine or a traveler just passing through. Don’t blink, or you might miss […]

Patrick Bronte, his wife Maria and their two children, Maria and Elizabeth moved to the parsonage at Thornton Bradford on the 15th May 1815. They stayed there until 1820, moving to the parsonage at Haworth. The frontage on the the right hand side was added in 1898 and was used as a butchers shop. Charlotte […]

“I intended to have written a line yesterday, but just as I was sitting down for that purpose, Arthur called to me to take a walk. We set off, not intending to go far; but though wild and cloudy it was fine in the morning; when we got about half-a-mile on the moors, Arthur suggested […]