OLD MIRFIELD DAYS - Mirfield - A Second Look

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Roe Head If the Fleming family, the founders of the Priory of Kirklees could return to the area which they dominated in the 1100's they would see that the wheel of fortune had come full circle, and that the Catholic cause from Rome was enjoying again the freedom which we usually associate with religion. The old Roe Head House has been transformed into a beautiful and well equipped College for the training of future Priests in the Catholic faith. It looks over the whole of the former Priory's land and the actual site of the buildings. During the times that the Bronte sisters were here they must have often looked far away across the grim hills that surround their home at Haworth and perhaps wished they were there. Roe Head itself at this time must have been a pretty grim place, incidentally the name itself seems rather a puzzle. Nearly a hundred years ago a sign post at the <strong>Mirfield</strong> end of Stocks Bank pointed to "Lower Roe", on an old map, an area half way up the moor road is posted as "Middle Roe", it is the word "Roe" that is evidently the important factor in this series of names, what it means I do not know, and have yet to meet anyone who does, the fact that the nearest big building is christened with this "Roe" is a coincidence. JOE MELLOR DRIVING JON TIPLING’S HANSON --- NEAR THE FLOWER POT AT HOPTON. John Tipling (“Owd Tip”) was famous for accidents, his usual first reqirement was “Hes onnybody a lahle bit of band, jist, a lahle bit’ll dea”, he could loose a whell and this would be his most help. 37
CLAIRE Our river sluthered over the Damstakes, On a bright sunny morning in June, It looked like shiny black traycle, You could nearly cut it out with a spoon. Now two ladies walked on our river bank, One said it looked lovely, it was beautiful, And sparkled like a casket of jewels. Oh, ah doant know, ah think it looks like shiny black grewil, An' ah'd ti hod mi noase, it stinks! Oh. an ah've summat to tell yer, Ah'll tell yer afore ah forget. Last neet when ah'd ed mi teah, ah'd just an ahr ta spare, So I gate me weshed, an ah gate me donned, An ah walked upt' Cuckoo Hill, Ah saw yor Clara, an that big gawby lad, Yer know, that big lad, that last cop't un, Sho caw's im Dick. Oh! Indeed, but her name is not Clara, Never has been, and is not now you know, Her name is Claire, it's new, it's nice and it's all the go. She goes to collect fossils, and old dry bones, She's quite a collection of old carved stones. And sometimes Dick goes to help her if the digging gets really tuff. Oh aye, Dick wor helping her, he wor helping reight enuff. But ah could 'a' sworn shoo wor christened Clara, Ah've yeard yoh caw'er that. Bud ah brade on arh George ah think, He once did a fornit i' Wakefield Jail, An when he cam whom, eh'd to ax mi mother what we caw'd t' cat. 38 F. G. PILLING.
Page 1 and 2: ONE LAST TIME OLD MIRFIELD DAYS & W
Page 3 and 4: INTRODUCTION DURING a long life spe
Page 5 and 6: home, and the song gets fast in mi
Page 7 and 8: CHAPTER 2 AS we leave the Water Roy
Page 9 and 10: CHAPTER 3 JUST by the gatehouse is
Page 11 and 12: CHAPTER 4 THERE was a wonderful car
Page 13 and 14: CHAPTER 5 TOMORROW be ready in good
Page 15 and 16: CHAPTER 6 LOOK over the river and y
Page 17 and 18: front of the pub, alongside Butt En
Page 19 and 20: the North wind would blow. But he w
Page 21 and 22: Watch that cock pheasant tread dain
Page 23 and 24: worst thing would come to pass and
Page 25 and 26: heavy sledge with broad wooden skid
Page 27 and 28: shovelful of coal and was eventuall
Page 29 and 30: CHAPTER 9 For a long time the Oakes
Page 31 and 32: of Hopton, and only recently I saw
Page 33 and 34: Hopton, but I can well remember lad
Page 35 and 36: THE DRUMMER BOY Come on mi Lads, mi
Page 37: contested; actually, at the time of
Page 41 and 42: PIPERS I listened intently and thou
Page 43 and 44: monkeys in our village without tack

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