eric
Regular Member
Posts: 145
|
Post by eric on Jun 25, 2009 15:52:45 GMT
Does anyone know anything about a "Hostel" in Silsden just after the 39/45 war fro Displaced Persons and Eastern European soldiers etc.? Apparently it stood where the Waterside Estate is now, and somewhere on the estate is a commemorative (thank goodness for "Spell Checker"!) plaque to the hostel. My informant (whose parents started out from the hostel) tells me it was a massive building and I wondered what it might have been before it became a hostel, or was it specially built?
|
|
angler
Regular Member
Posts: 113
|
Post by angler on Jun 25, 2009 17:50:27 GMT
I know that the Hostle at Silsden belonged to a Silsden Textile Mill as I knew a girl who was sent from the Hostle at Sutton-In-Craven to live there after she had been dismissed from a Mill at Sutton .The Mill girls were sent from towns all over the Country to do War work and were told that they could not go home untill the War finished The Hostel at Sutton was in use before the War. But the Silsden Hostle after the War was I think used by Displaced Persons who also had to work in the Mill Angler
|
|
eric
Regular Member
Posts: 145
|
Post by eric on Jun 25, 2009 17:59:07 GMT
That fits in with what I was told as the lady's parents worked in a mill in Denholme.
|
|
