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In October 2011 Cath wrote:

I grew up in Smithy brook and think this could be the back to back on Thornhill road, just up from where I used to live. Heading up the hill towards Middlestown. It has now been made into one rather large house."

Stanningley is between Leeds and Bradford.

Place and date unknown. Bought with a group of Heckmondwike, Gomersal and Hanging Heaton images.

I bought this image with a group that included images from Heckmondwick, Gomersal, and Hanging Heaton and for many years did not know the location. In January 2017 Kimberley Law wrote and identified the street as High Street, Hanging Heaton near where she lives. She said the right side of the street has not changed much over the years. Kimberley wrote that her grandmother was a Gillard and worked at both Jessop's and Blakeridge Mills prior to her marriage to Frederick Thoms Pakeha Law who was from Kent.

Her grandmother:

always told me (but I've never been able to verify) that she won a competition to produce a new fabric. The fabric she created was slub.

My Nan also told me that the area (known locally as the Lakes because the street names are those of the Lake District in Cumbria), where I now live was used as leisure airfield - with aircraft taking off from the top of Caulms Wood for pleasure trips.