Anecdotes and snippets of local news

Some of the most interesting items we get sent to us are short anecdotes or snippets of local news about how life used to be in Farnhill and Kildwick.
We plan to keep an archive of these and use this page to make them available for you to read.

If you have any items you'd like to share with us, please email history@farnhill.co.uk

A famous visitor to Kildwick Hall   (Updated 27/4/2024)

An interesting piece of clerical garb    (Updated 30/07/2022)

The gift of a gazebo   (Updated 28/05/2022)

The Farnhill and Kildwick 1672 Hearth Tax returns   (Posted 26/03/2022)

Payments made by Lord Thanet's Charity (1685)   (Posted 26/02/2022)

A snap-shot of Farnhill and Kildwick in 1822   (Posted 31/12/2021)

The story of a Kildwick bell-ringer's unfortunate error   (Posted 28/8/2021)

The "chinese gate" at Farnhill Hall   (Posted 29/5/2021)

19th-century recollections   (Posted 26/9/2020)

A map in the basement of Farnhil Chapel   (Posted 26/4/2020)

A message from Kildwick Hall - December 1914   (Posted 29/2/2020)

The Kildwick Man-Tyger   (Posted 25/1/2020)

Kildwick School goes metric   (Posted 29/6/2019)

A picture of Kildwick - 1887   (Posted 27/4/2019)

A quiet life ?   (Posted 30/3/2019)

Inauguration of the Farnhill Chapel Organ (1908)   (Posted 24/11/2018)

Arson in Farnhill (1876)   (Posted 27/10/2018)

Rev. J.C.T. Fawcett and stone-flooring in Kildwick School   (Posted 25/8/2018)

Methodist outdoor meeting (1908)   (Posted 28/4/2018)

Farnhill's 1920 car-wash   (Posted 24/02/2018)

The "tack-spreading sin" - 1905   (Posted 27/01/2018)

A motto for 1918   (Posted 30/12/2017)

Gasholder problems - 1883 & 1884   (Posted 26/08/2017)

Kildwick Hall - a poem by Robert Heaton
    (from the Sutton-in-Craven Village website)

Strange visitor (1892)   (Posted 25/02/2017)

An 1892 watercolour   (Posted 28/01/2017)

Kildwick Hall auction - 1946   (Posted 26/11/2016)

Ned Green of High Farnhill    (Posted 29/10/2016)

A strange sporting event    (Updated 24/09/2016)

Flood - 1686    (Posted 27/08/2016)

Why "Kitson Row" ?   (Posted 28/05/2016)

An interesting use for the Pinfold (1914)   (Posted 26/03/2016)

The Parting Stone    (Posted 30/01/2016)

Childhood memories of Kildwick station in the 1940s   (Posted 27/06/2015)

An unlikely Farnhill business   (Posted 30/05/2015)

Two Kildwick grave inscriptions   (Posted 28/03/2015)

Farnhill's first wedding   (Updated 28/03/2015)

An old Kildwick document on US TV   (Posted 27/12/2014)

The dangers of Tip-cat   (Posted 29/11/2014)

WW2 - Holiday at home   (Posted 30/08/2014)

Kildwick tennis court   (Posted 29/06/2014)

A Kildwick terrorist scare   (Posted 31/05/2014)

An elephant in the canal   (Posted 26/04/2014)

A savoury pudding recipe - from January 1897   (Posted 25/01/2014)

A sober night in - thanks to an Airedale     (Updated 28/12/2013)

Peggy the horse has a close encounter with the Luftwaffe   (Posted 30/11/2013)

A day out in Farnhill - a poem   (Posted 26/10/2013)

A man-trap at Kildwick Hall   (Posted 28/09/2013)

An offal accident at Kildwick Bridge   (Posted 31/08/2013)

When Kildwick crossing was closed all day   (Posted 27/07/2013)

"Old Dixie" plans his own wake   (Posted 29/06/2013)

Gordon Bancroft talks "Yorkshire"   (Posted 25/05/2013)

Billy, Brownie, and Herman - White Lion regulars   (Posted 27/04/2013)

Repairing the Pinnacle   (Posted 27/04/2013)

A drunk at the Ship Inn

Clifford Kitson and his "friend" go poaching

An interesting use for some chamber pots