Our Museum is 25 years old this year and this walk on Sat the 13th of July is part of the celebrations it will be repeated on  Sunday the 25th of August Every body welcome to join us on the 20th of July at the Museum when we will have demonstrations of crafts.

This handsome couple are Hannah Morfitt Pullan nee Ingham and Mathew Pullan who together started Nethersprings Bleach Works in 1860 in north Horsforth. Our talk on the Domestic flax linen industry in West Yorkshire was exelent The Museum has organised two walks taking in the sites of four disused bleach works in north Horsforth and other interesting historical sites provisiona dates are Sat July 13th and Sun August 25th it is a 6 mile walk good boots needed and a packed lunch.

Springfield House still in existence was built in 1898 as a convalescent home connected to the Leeds Hospital Fund. Where is it situated?

The Domestic Industry in the West Riding is the title of a talk by Elizabeth Padget on May 21sr. Here is Nethersprings one of  north Horsforth many flax bleaching mills which was used for linen. The Flax seed would have been used for oil and the unbleached fibres of the plant for twine and rope. Ropeworks were many in Horsforth as well in the Woodside area and over the boundary at Clayton.

On the 4th of May Alastair Laurence gave a talk in the Museum Stables block about the Kirkstall Abbey Gate House now the Abbey House Museum Facinating history of the building families who lived there, the area and the Forge. Horsforth Museum have his book on sale at the Stewards desk for £10 well worth the investmant.