Dementia awareness week Horsforth Museum exhibition Sat 20th & Sun 21st

 Come along to Horsforth Museum this weekend Sat 10am to 4pm Sun 2pm to 5pm and refresh your memories of times gone by.

Horsforth News Dec 1976 Jan 1977 Pot Hill trial, Newlaiths school, new gas fires, plans for the silver jubilee and green crocer closes.

Horforth News reports New Year edition 1967. Fire on board the St Finbar, Paraffin delivered and new year babies 1967

Just a few.

Brookfoot Low Lane Horsforth

A little of Broofoot

Still a soap works today from 1890 to 2016

Springfield Hospital Scotland Lane Horsforth, Springfield House and School from 1900 to 1975

Springfield Convalescent Home Scotland Lane Horsforth was opened in 1900 by the Leeds Workpeoples Hospital Fund for their subscribers who paid one penny a week collected in mills, factories and workplaces all over Leeds. It was extended in 1906 and a stone laid by Fred Sparks to commemorate the occasion. In 1911 Lord Airedale the founder of the Hospital Fund died and a memorial sundial was erected in front of the Hospital in 1912. Springfield served as a hospital until 1950 when it changed use to a children's special school. Later in 1992 Yugoslavian refugees were housed there for a while. It later became offices for Xsiro and still is. The Sundial disappeared before it became a school, it would be nice to know where such an important memorial went?

Horsforth Museum is now closed for a bit of cleaning and general repairs. We are still open for Coffee mornings the last Saturday of January and February 2017 opening again to the public at weekends on the last Saturday of March 2017 which is coffee morning and all welcome. Any enquiries please make through our email horsorthmuseum@hotmail.co.uk
Regards Susan volunteer.

Horsforth Quarry Street, Builders and Printers trademen of high quality way back then.

Quarry St changed it's name to Kerry St and William Walker traded from his cottage their also Grimshaw and Teale advertising printers. Way back then.