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(Supporter of the Allerton Bywater in Bloom project 2012) Chair: Parish Clerk: Councillor Stephen Murray Claire Murray 4 St Mary's Court 4 St Mary's Court Allerton Bywater Allerton Bywater Castleford Castleford West WF102AZ WF102AZ

Website: http://www.allertonbywaterparishcouncil.co.uk/

MEETINGS ARE HELD ON THE 2ND THURSDAY OF EACH MONTH AT 7:00pm IN THE ST MARY THE LESS CHURCH ANNEX

Councillor S Murray Chairman Councillor K Asprey Councillor S Bassett Councillor J Taylor Councillor L Tomlinson Councillor S Harland Councillor M Weaver Councillor A M Jabin Councillor J A Coe Councillor J Trayer

Planning Applications from June 2013 to date

Leeds City Council have approved planning applications for: P/13/01933/LA Allerton Bywater Primary School Single storey rear extension to existing classroom block P/13/01920/FU 40 Preston Lane Allerton Bywater Single storey extension incorporating a garage to side PI 13/02118/FU2 Road Allerton Bywater Conservatory to side

The Parish Council have received applications for:­ P/13/03075/FU Brigshaw House Residential Home 2 Brigshaw Lane Change of use involving part demolition of an elderly persons home to form a private dwelling and erection of detached dwelling to the rear with new access drive P/13/02123/FU Sunday School Main Street Demolition of former sunday school and construction of one house 13/02121/FU Allerton Bywater Methodist Church Change of use of former church to house

The following application has been withdrawn:­ P/13/01677/FU 42A Main Street Allerton Bywater Two storey and single storey sidelrear extension Other Activities

Councillors have held meetings with Leeds City Councillors, Leeds City Council Highways, and the Police.

Council Surgeries are held at St Mary the Less Annex on the first Saturday of each month. Surgeries are an opportunity for residents to meet councillors to discuss any problems. A ward councillor is also present to discuss any issues you may want to raise with them .

The Parish Council and Village In Bloom committee would like to thank Beryl Davies from the Edward Vll club for growing plants for Village in bloom.

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Breakfast Lunches Small £3.50 A good range of Lunches Standard £4.00 Available Jumbo Breakfast £4.50 Puddings Galore Mega Breakfast £5.50 Credit Crunch Meals Includes Tea or Coffee & Toast (Includes meal and a or drink) £4.00. Bread & Butter

Hot and Cold Sandwiches Available all day

OUTSIDE CATERING FOR ANY OCCASION MENUS AVAILABLE WEDDINGS - FUNERALS - BIRTHDAYS ANY KIND OF PARTY CATERED FOR Autumn Programme for St Mary's the Less. Allerton Bywater

Saturday September ih, 10 am till 12 noon, monthly coffee morning with Council Surgery.

Saturday Se pt i h, 1.30pm, World War One Western Front Association, Disaster at Hooge. All welcome, £3 on the door.

th 9 am Sunday October 6 . Besides the family Eucharist, this will be a very special day, because it will celebrate Harvest and is also Back to Church Sunday. A special welcome will be sent to local Schools. Any harvest gifts will be given to St George's Crypt. It is suggested that if anyone does wish to give items towards Harvest, these might include dry foodstuff and tins. Also welcome would be small toiletry items such as toothbrushes and toothpaste, or socks and hankies. Back to Church Sunday is a day when people who may have dropped off coming to church are especially welcome, and are invited to join in special refreshments after the service.

Saturday October 5th 10 am till 12, Coffee Morning and Council Surgery

Saturday October 5th 1.30pm. Saturday October 5th 1.30pm . World War One Western Front Association ILS NE PASSERONT PAS by Martyn Fisher, the story behind Petain's immortal phrase 'they shall not pass' at Verdun . £3 on the door.

nd Saturday November 2 • 10 am till 12 noon, monthly coffee morning with Council Surgery.

Saturday November 2nd , 1.30pm , World War One Western Front Association , Before The groups AGM, the members will make an Act of Remembrance starting in the Church and concluding with the laying of a wreath at the Cenotaph. If you are unable to commemorate Remembrance services the following week, you are welcome to join the Association at this event.

Sunday 10th November. The 9 am Eucharist will take place as usual. After refreshments in the Annex, the Ecumenical Service of Remembrance will start in the Church at 10.45, and process to the Cenotaph for the Act of Remembrance at 10.45 with the laying of wreaths. Saturday December ih, 10 am till 12 noon, monthly coffee morning with Council Surgery.

Saturday December ih, Church Christmas Fair. Look out for details of times.

Sunday 15th December, 3pm, there will be a service of Lessons and Carols, in St Mary's Church .

th December 24 , Christmas Eve. The Crib Service will be at 4pm, and the First Eucharist of Christmas at 8pm at St Mary's Allerton Bywater, and 11 .15pm at Kippax.

There will be other events taking place, which will be advertised in the notice board, in the Castleford and Pontefract Express and on the Church Door. Everyone is welcome to all services and events. tt-Boi Tree SurgeolJ

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Garforth & District Lions Club area covers the Township of Garforth and the villages of Kippax- -Allerton Bywater--Ledston Luck­ - - Barwick in Elmet and Scholes.

The annual Father Christmas collection does not take in Ledston-Ledston Luck-Ledsham-Micklefield and Aberford. The reason being we [the lions who are al volunteers] find it logistically impossible to cover every village. Allerton Bywater is allocated two nights one at the top of the village and the other night at the bottom of the village, even with two nights it is impossible to cover the whole village. Comments/criticisms have been made of the lions by some of the Allerton Bywater villager's that some children are missing out, which of course is true and unfortunately will always be the case.

The Licence for the Father Christmas collection is granted by Leeds city Council for five nights mid-week 1800hrs to 2100hrs. For a total of about 21 nights. Saturdays have never been applied for by the lions as we decided many years ago that this would be a night off. However, the Lions when applying for the 2013 Licence are to include Saturdays the ]'h_14th and 21 st of December, two hours each night specifically for Allerton Bywater. This will not be in addition to the two mid-week nights already allocated to the village.

The Saturday collection can only happen if we get enough volunteers from Allerton Bywater to assist with the collection. If we do not get enough volunteers the collection will remain the same i.e. two nights mid-week.

All volunteers will be briefed, and issued with a sealed collecting box and Lions tabard.

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Environmental groups are warning of a triple Whammy" with damage to wildlife, increased flooding and legal challenges. The Blueprint for Water Coalition of Environmental Organisations has submitted a strong response to the Government objecting to the proposals to weaken controls on river dredging which have been produced at the request of Environment Secretary Owen Paterson.

The Environment Agency was asked by Mr Paterson to consider how they could make it easier for farmers and landowners to undertake their own dredging and water course maintenance, in response to strong lobbying by the Farmers Union after last year's heavy rain and flooding.

The Agency now proposes to deregulate parts of the consenting process for dredging; this would allow farmers and landowners to undertake the work themselves.

The Coalition believe this could herald a return to the 1960/70s when rivers were dredged and straightened and valuable habitats destroyed in the mistaken belief that moving flood water downstream faster would lead to a reduced flood risk. In fact studies have shown that at best dredging is often ineffective and at worst can it can create heavier flooding by increasing the height of the peak flows.

Worryingly Mr Paterson is reported as telling the South Wales Agricultural Conference in April this year that "The purpose of waterways is to get rid of water".

The Environment Agency's own guide to dredging and Flood risk states.

Dredging river channels does not make them does not make them big enough to contain large volumes of water during a flood. When a major flood occurs, water soon fills the rivers and enters the flood plain. The floodplain is an area over which water naturally flows during flooding. Even major dredging will not free up enough space in the river channel to stop this happening.

The Blueprint Coalition has warned of the dangers of allowing uncoordinated actions which could lead to significant environmental damage and exacerbate flooding impacts in downstream communities. Wetland wildlife is in crisis despite the range of legislation designed to protect it. We understand the difficulties that heavy rainfalls bring for farmers and for food production. However data from the Environment Agency suggests wide spread non­ compliance with legislation is the root of many off the run off and siltation problems facing our rivers and wetlands.

The coalition also warns of many potential legal challenges and consequent risks for land owners adding. We have concluded that the proposals will at best maintain the status quo, it is though more likely however to pose a significant threat to the natural environment to compromise domestic and European obligations and put landowners at risk of inadvertently falling foul of legal requirements.

The Charter it is suggested will cause long term Environmental damage and increased flood risk.

Common Sense must tell the Government there is a better way of dealing with the problem.

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Two anglers walking off the bank after a day's fishing stopped to ask another angler Trevor if he had many fish. "Haven't had a bite came the reply". As they walked on one angler said to the other "no surprise there really then, last time Trevor had a good bite was when he bit his finger eating a jam sandwich at a street party for the Queen's Coronation". Craftsm.an Gates Wrought Iron Specialists

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Built in the USA in 1947 the dragline which stands on the St Aidans site was the biggest machine of its type in the world. Weighing a massive 1150Tonnes it helped extract millions of tons from the St Aidans opencast site.

Prior to the opencast mine the whole area had previously been deep mined with several pits located in the area since the 1800s, open casting was introduced within the area in the 1940s the main open cast mine was extended in 1981 with the workings expected to produce 6 million Tonnes over a ten year period. But in in March 1988 mother nature took a hand when the breached a 70m deep excavation wall and flooded the workings, the river running into the excavation in both directions and the river actually flowed upstream [backwards] from Castleford into the site.

Owing to the amount of coal still left to be mined it was decided to re-route both the River Aire and the Aire and Calder Navigation and new sections were dug out. The new section of canal was the first significant section of canal to be built in for 100 years. The work was completed in 1995 and the site pumped out. Work resumed and the remaining coal was removed .

Two Bucyrus Erie 1150 B walking draglines were used when the site was most active, they had a top speed of 0.2 mph. Oddball was built in 1948 it worked in the USA for four years before being shipped to England. It has been dismantled four times in the UK it worked in Pontypridd, South Wales, Cannock and Staffordshire before being moved to St Aidans in 1972 where it was used until 1983. Only four dragline excavators are still in existence oddball is one of them. It weighs 1200 tons and is the size of 60 double decker buses it has a bucket capacity of 20 cubic yards. It was powered by mains electricity and ran on a different MHz level than most British machinery so transformers had to be installed. They were said to make strange noise hence the name Odd ball was given to the machine. The dragline was restored in 1999 by a group of enthusiasts who called themselves liThe Friends of the St Aidans BE 1150 Dragline" with the help of Beeby Plant Repairs. It finally walked 49 metres to where it stands today. It is opened for visitors to view several times a year.

At the present time the machine has taken on a new role and has probably become the world's largest nesting box. A pair of kestrels took up residence and have been busy rearing 4 chicks on the abundance of food available on the 400 hectare site managed by the RSPB. But the Kestrels are not the only birds to make their homes in Oddball Little Owls, Stock Doves and Crows also use the facility. Whilst Rabbits, Stoats and Weasels also take advantage of the mighty bulk of the machine making their homes underneath it. ATOMIC BOMBING ON JAPAN

In 1945 the USA dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; this to date is the only actual use of such weapons of mass destruction.

Because of the extreme distance to Japan the American bombers could not reach their targets until they had captured the Northern Marina islands, then from bases on the islands American long range bombers B29 Super fortresses conducted high level bombing raids on Japan. On March 9th 1945 an armada of 234 B29s dropped 1667 tons of incendiaries on Tokyo. By the time the firestorm had ended a 16 square mile area that had contained a quarter of a million homes was in ashes and more than 80000 Japanese mostly civilians lay dead. Only the joint allied bombing of Dresden in Germany which killed 135000 exceeded the destruction caused by the Tokyo raid . Both were mainly civilian targets.

Then on August 6th 1945 a B52 bomber named Elona Gay set off with a single atomic bomb called Little Boy weighing 8000lbs and containing the destructive power of 12.5 kilotons of TNT the destination was Hiroshima. At 8.15 am the bomb was dropped on the city, the immediate impact was estimated to have killed at least 70000 residents.

The Americans demanded Japans surrender after the bomb was dropped but after three days of no response another B52 took off with an even bigger bomb on board.

The destination was Kokura but when they arrived the area was obscured by cloud so th they turned towards their secondary target Nagasaki. At 1l.02am on August 9 1945 they dropped the bomb [Fatman) that destroyed the city and killed 60000 of its inhabitants.

Conventional bombing raids were taking place at the same time on other Japanese cities and five days later 800 B29 bombers raided all across the country.

On 15th August 1945 {Tokyo time} the Japanese finally accepted unconditional surrender.

Much debate has taken place about the use of the Atomic bombs, but the protesters ignore the fact the conventional bombing using incendiaries on Tokyo and Dresden claimed far more casualties. But regardless of the debate there is no doubt the use of the atomic bombs on Japan shortened the War. The Village Fisheries

We are now opening earlier due to high demandl

Monday - Closed

Tuesday - 4.00pm till 8.30pm

Wednesday - 4.00pm till 8.30pm

Thursday - 4. OOpm till 8. 30pm

Friday lunch 11. 30 till 1. 30pm & 4. OOpm till 8. 30pm

Saturday - 11. 30 till 1. 30pm

Gluten free night is still available to order on Tuesday evenings

Enquires about Fish & Chip parties are always welcome.

We are located 50 yards from St Marys the Less Church in Allerton Bywater

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Monday to Thursday open from 2.00pm Friday to Sunday open from 12.00pm Kippax 0/ Villages EaSt Children's Centres

Kippax and Villages East Children's Centres provide services for children under 5 and their families. Staff at the centre's are on hand to help and advise on issues such as childcare, parenting, training and education, employment, finance and housing to name but a few! We also have a Relate counsellor and can offer outreach services, helping families in the home. You can access our timetable on our websites: www.kippaxchildrenscentre.com www.villageseastchildrenscentre.com

Or why not drop in to one of our free Stay and Play sessions? We run a session at Kippax Children's Centre for 0-5 years on Tuesday morning between 9:30 and 11 :00 and hold a session at Villages East on Thursday morning for children from birth to walking from 9:30 until 11 :00am. These sessions are free and there is no need to book. Children's Centre News!

We are very excited about the new activities we have planned for the months ahead . These have been put together in response to your feedback and comments , in particular from feedback week which was held in mid June. Many thanks for your comments.

Our Stay & Play Group at Swillington Primary School was launched in January 2013 and in response to popular demand we will now be holding this session every week, all year round (school access permitting). It is a drop-in session for families and children to play and socialize together in a safe, inspiring environment. We are offering a new course - 'Confidence Building'. The course is at Kippax Children's Centre and is aimed at kick-starting confidence and self-esteem. A limited number of creche places are available so please book early. As we go to print we are also hoping to run a family finance course during the autumn which looks at fraud, scams , welfare reform, budgeting and consumer rights.

Finally, we would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support! If you have any feedback, please feel free to pop in and speak to a member of staff. We value your comments.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

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29 King Edward Avenue, Allerton Bywater, Castleford . Allerton Bywater Colliery Miners Memorial March And Unveiling Ceremony 8th September 2012

A DVD of the day has been produced by Outwood Video Community. Donation £10-00.

Also a DVD of A Photographic Record has been produced by Allerton Bywater Regeneration Group Donation £5-00

There are still a number of Miners Memorial Pin Badges Donation £5-00

All Donations will be handed over to Allerton Bywater Parish Council The Custodians of the Miners Memorial

Contact John Taylor Tel 01977 510644 Reflections from Auschwitz

Auschwitz is an important place to visit. In May I teamed up with the Holocaust Educational Trust and travelled to Poland on a one day visit to Auschwitz with students from our local High Schools. The Holocaust Educational Trust does outstanding work educating students on the origin, reality and consequences of the Holocaust, whilst ensuring future generations never forget what happened to those innocent people, murdered in their millions because of the beliefs they held.

A visit to Auschwitz is not only an excellent education but it very much humanises the Holocaust. Despite numerous visits, the harrowing stories never fail to bring tears to my eyes and only confirm my fears of what social intolerance can lead to.

The inhuman actions of the Nazis are truly shocking and yet through such evil, the pride and resilience of those imprisoned is evident. During the visit we saw an entire wall of photographs taken by Nazi guards, photographs of prisoners stripped of their dignity, their names replaced with a number tattooed onto their skin, their hair shaved, gold fillings removed and their clothes replaced with uniforms. Each individual is photographed alone, their faces tortured yet defiant.

Toward the end of the tour a new museum has been erected to exhibit photographs rescued from the personal luggage of those who came to Auschwitz believing they would one day be reunited with their loved ones. This is one of the most moving parts of the tour, more so than walking through the gas chambers, the very machines of mass murder. The personal pictures reclaimed really bring home the fact that these innocent people, victims of such hate and intolerance, were much loved parents, grandparents and children . Almost all of us will have the same pictures at home depicting a special wedding day, a family day out, and numerous other fond memories. The innocence in their eyes is heart wrenching.

We all know the history of the Holocaust but the lessons are sometimes overlooked. What happened in Nazi Germany was truly horrific and it happened because a section of society wanted someone to blame for their nation's economic woes. It was the politics of intolerance that made innocent Jews a target, victimised for the faith they held .

Today we live in unstable times and the challenges we face can so easily divide us. Instances of hate crimes on our streets so easily lead to flippant remarks from which intolerance festers. It is completely understandable that people look for a group to blame for events but this is merely a short-sighted approach. We must remember where intolerance leads; we must not let the actions of a few condemn a whole religion. As Christians we are tolerant and peaceable. The lessons from Auschwitz should influence the way we deal with the challenges our nation faces today.

"Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honourable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all". (Romans 12:17-18)

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Ever y 0 neWel co m e World War I Western Front Association

The Western Front Association was formed in 1980 to further interest in the period 1914-18 and to perpetuate the memory, courage and comradeship of those of all sides who served their countries in the Great War.

The West Riding of Yorkshire branch of the WFA recently switched its monthly meetings (usually the first Saturday of the month at 1.30pm) to its new base at St Mary's the Less Church Annexe in Vicar's Terrace, Allerton Bywater.

Although some talks on World War One can be heavily academic, our branch was formed to concentrate on smaller scale topics, often with local relevance, of the experiences of those who fought the war both at home and abroad .

We're a small, friendly group all trying to learn more about 'the war to end wars' as we go along. You don't have to be a member of the WFA to attend our meetings and nor will you be pestered to join! We ask for a £3 donation at the door to help cover our costs. For more information please contact branch secretary Chris Page at [email protected] or telephone 0113 250 2165.

Forthcoming Meetings:

Saturday September t h1 .30pm . DISASTER AT HOOGE by Sean Godfrey, an account of the fighting at this village east of Ypres in July 1915.

Saturday October 5th 1.30pm. ILS NE PASSERONT PAS by Martyn Fisher, the story behind Petain's immortal phrase 'they shall not pass' at Verdun.

Saturday November 2nd 1.30pm . Branch AGM and wreath-laying. Doctor's Lane Allerton Bywater Castleford

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In 1752 the British Empire adopted the Gregorian Calendar. In the British Empire in that year September 3rd was immediately followed by September th the 13 . Many people thought this would shorten their lives and protests followed with demands for the missing eleven days to be given back.

nd The Zodiac signs for this month are Virgo [until September 22 ] and Libra [from 22 nd September onward]

The birth flowers are the Forget-Me -Not, Morning Glory and the Aster.

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I'm going to inform you about Allerton Bywater in 1927. My information comes from Kelly's Directory 1927.

Allerton Bywater: On the north bank of the river Aire is a village, township and parish formed on January 1st 1867 from the parish of Kippax two miles south from Castleford railway station, half a mile from Ledstone Station on the Leeds and Pontefract branch of the London and North Eastern Railway and four and a half miles northwest from the Pontefract branch in the Barkston Ash Division of the Riding [old West Riding],lower division of the wapen-take of Skyrack petty sessions of Castleford Honour of ,Tadcaster Union Pontefract County Court District, Rural Deanery of Arch Deaconry of Leeds and Diocese of Ripon. Part of the township of , South of Astley Lane is included in the parish for ecclesiastical rights purposes.

The Church of St Mary the Less erected at a cost of £2500.00 and consecrated in 1865 is a fine building of stone in the early English style consisting of a chancel with organ chamber, nave, and south porch, vestry and open stone belfry on the west end wall containing a bell. On the outside wall is a peal of 8 carillon bells given by parishioners in the 1920s to commemorate the signing of a victorious peace.

The stained east window is a memorial and there are others, one of which was erected in1883 by Mrs Prince late of Allerton Bywater to her children, another in the same year by the reverend alexander Blair BA Vicar 1874-94 and one to Miss Atkinson in1895. A fine oak pulpit with the figure of "The Good Shepherd" along with a brass eagle lectern were the gift of the late Sarah Stoker. The carved oak panelling at the east end was presented in 1920 by Mr Robertshaw and Mr Herbert Skelton parish clerk from 1865 to 1918.

There are sittings for 250 persons. The register dates from 1865. There is a vicarage net yearly value of £450.00 with residence in the gift of the vicar of Kippax and held since 1916 by the reverend James Bell.

The Mission Church of St John the Baptist in Lock Lane is served by a curate in charge and there is a Wesleyan Chapel. Outside and opposite Saint Mary the Less Church is a memorial to the men of the parish who fell in the Great War 1914-1918 it is hexagonal in shape and is crowned by a Maltese Cross the total cost was £1000.00 raised by public subscription.

The Parish is noted for its excellent beds of coal Allerton Main, Haigh Moor, Silkstone and Beeston. Airedale Collieries Limited worked several pits in the area.

Boat building is carried out by Messrs R Cliff and Son

Mr John Davison Bland Esquire J.P. is Lord of the manor and along with the Earl of Mexborough J.P . the principal landowners

The soil is clay and alluvial, subsoil clay the chief crops are wheat and beans. A good proportion of the land is rich grazing. The area is 956 acres of land and 28 of water, rateable value £22750.00.

The population in 1921 was 5894 in the Ecclesiastical by Local Government Board Order. Lock Lane was transferred from Kippax to Allerton Bywater on March 25 th 1884.

Post and MO office- Herbert Wilson. Sub Post Master letter s through Castleford which is the nearest telegraph Office half a mile away.

Public Elementary School providing mixed classes and infants was Lock Lane school erected in 1898 for 529 children with 318 mixed and 211 infants the masters were Waiter Tom Andrew and Wilson Berry with Miss F.E Marshall being in charge of the infants.

PRIVATE RESIDENTS: Rev James bell The Vicarage. Hargreaves Claude Christian M>B CH .B D.P.H. The Grange

COMMERCIAL RESIDENTS : There are quite a lot of these ,so I' ll select a few and see if you know any. Airedale Collieries Ltd, Hugh F Smithson. Batty Brothers Farmers. Bourn William & sons, Fried Fish Dealers. Brammer Daniel, Victory Hotel .Collecting Officer and Clerk of the Parish, Clark Harry Randall. Timber Merchants ., Cliffe Richard & Sons. Eastwood Arthur, Farmer Brigshaw. Elswood Jack Fried Fish Woodend. Firth Alfred shopkeeper Hollinhurst. Firth William Shopkeeper Westfields. Goodall AnnieFried fish Hollinhurst. Heslop Thomas Manor Farm . Hestor John Coal Dealer Nova Scotia. Holdsworth Brothers Rag Merchants Lock Lane. Hudson John Wheel wright . Infield Steven MRCS England Phsician & Surgeon. Jones Henry Shopkeeper Robinson Street. Harry Crossland Edward Vll Club. Mclnnes William Dentist. Mosby Samuel Shopkeeper 6 Victoria Street. Paley George Shopkeeper Main Street.

There are 6 Princes 5 male 1 female. Robinson William Boat Inn. Simister Annice Mrs Shopkeeper. Also one person whom I knew personally Sunderland Smith shopkeeper, when I knew him he was the owner of Beckfield Quarry amongst other things.

I hope some of you will know several of the above

GEORGE PARKINSON

SEPTEMBER MMXll1

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TEl: 01977 514466 LEEDS CITY COUNCIL & OTHER USEFUL NUMBERS

ADULT SOCIAL CARE 01132224401 ADULT SOCIAL CARE & EMERGENCY ACCOMODATION 01132409536 ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR 0113 2224402 ALLERTON BYWATER PRIMARY SCHOOL 01977 517399 AIRE VALLEY HOMES LEEDS 0800 9156660 BRIGSHAW HIGH SCHOOL 01132865317 CHEMISTS LEEDS ROAD ALLERTON BYWATER 01977 552695 CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE SOCIAL CARE 0113 2224403 COUNCIL HOUSING REGISTRATION & BIDS 0113 2224413 COUNCIL TAX BENEFITS 0113 2224404 CUSTOMER RELATIONS 0113 2224405 CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU 0870 1202450 OR PIERCHOD NOVA SCOTIA MEDICAL CENTRE 01977 552193 OR MALHOTRA 01132861891 ELECTRICITY 0800375675 ELECTORAL SERVICES 01132224411 ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES 0113 2224406 GAS EMERGENCIES 0800111 999 GREAT PRESTON PRIMARY SCHOOL 01132146816 HIGHWAYS 0113 2224407 HIGHWAYS EMERGENCY [outside opening hours, Street Lights, Signage, Building Repairs] 0113 3760499 HOUSING OPTIONS [for homeless advice] 01132224412 KIPPAX HEALTH CENTRE [Gibson Lane] 0113 2874555 KIPPAX HALL SURGERY [High Street Kippax] 08444773807 MINICOM [For All Services] 01132224410 METRO BUS 0113 2457676 MINERS WELFARE ALLERTON BYWATER 01977 558426 NSPCC [24 Hours] 0808 8005000 NOISE PROBLEMS 0113 2425841 POLICE NON EMERGENCY 0845 6060606 PLANNING 0113 2224409 RSPCA [24 Hour] 0870 5555999 REGISTRARS [Births, Deaths, Marriages] 0113 2224408 RAIL 0845 7484950 STREET LIGHTING 0800 0325349 SAMARITANS 0845 7909090 YOUTH & ADULT CENTRE ALLERTON BYWATER 01977 604193

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