What's in a name

[les972]

I lived at Beechcliffe for about 23 years. Those days it was known as a village, and I knew every inch of the place. I now live in Steeton and one night I was in the Old Star when a lady??? was telling a mutual friend that she had moved to Eel Holme View street at Low Utley. She was most indignant when I tried to correct her and insisted that Eel Holme was in Low Utley and not Beechcliffe. How I hate snobs.
Les

[barcroftlad]

Hi Les
I just want to say welcome to the board. You seem to have "hit the ground running" and I for one am enjoying your posts. Cheers.

[angler]

I lived in Beechcliffe for 45 years and I know for certain that Ellholme Veiw Street IS in Beechcliffe It got its name from the fact that ELLHOLME GRANGE FARM is on the outher side of the Valley The name ELLHOLME sprang from the fact that Ells (Fish) came up the River Aire and came out off the river onto dry land hence Ell Holme .The Largest find of Roman coins in the Valley were also found on the Farm Angler

[les972]

Hi barcroftlad
Thanks very much for the welcome, it's always nice to feel wanted. I suppose being an old relic myself I enjoy owt to do with the good old days. One of my favourite things is doing family history but just now I've come up against a few of them brick walls with my family. As my lot came from all over, I've had a few people help me with my research and so I enjoy helping others with theirs if I can. If anyone has any old records or cassettes they want putting on CD or video's they want putting on to DVD I can do that so long as you supply the blank discs, in fact I'm doing a 21 year video now. Wow that's enough about all my little secrets. I've known angler for over 40 years now.

[Andy Wade]

Mar 22, 2011 22:21:26 GMT les972 said:

I've known angler for over 40 years now.

I'd keep that kind of thing to yourself mate. They'll all want to be his friend now. ;D

[claircowburn1981]

im tryin to find out the exact year that west lane officially became west lane coz i know that it was called Blind Lane.

[holycroftschool19]

Did the houses on Beechcliffe belong to the mill workers? And where did the name Beechcliffe
come from?

[les972]

Hello hcs19. Although I lived at Beechcliffe for 23 years I never did find out where the name originated from. At the end of Eel Holme View, there is a foot bridge over the railway and on the other side of the railway there is a track goes to the left. At the end of that track was some houses, these were known as Peggy Tub Row and these were mill workers houses. They had long gone before I moved there.
Les

[angler]

The Mill at Beechcliffe was certainly there before the houses were built Ellholme View Street were I lived were built by 3 apprentices who worked for a builder who lived on Skipton Road from my House deeds it said that the builder gave the Land and stone for the long row of houses. The row was in the first place called Ellholme Veiw Terrace or Ellholme Veiw Cresant.(I will check on the name later it is engraved on the end of the row. Ellholme Veiw Street had a field in front of it when it was built Later Elsie Street and the houses which run alongside the Railway line were built that was when the name was changed. Clockveiw Street was named as worker going to the Mill saw the Clock on the side of the Mill as they went to work also on the other end off Roberts there was an-other Mill which belonged to Roderick Crane this was used during the 1st World War as a munitions works prier to that it made Wringer Machines Thi burnt down while I lived at Beechcliffe. The Dyehouse had also been used in the 1st W.W. as a Foundry If you were to look at the supports for the Cycle shed it is moulded on the supports of the shed .\\all the footpath in that location are covered by Slag from the works this can be proved by going round with a metal detector. The late Mr John Roberts once told me that there is in the Dyeworks an old machine which was put in when the Mill was built but I have never seen it.It may be something in which one of our members could investigate Angler