Showing results 1 to 5 of 5


Sort by: most relevant first  |  most recent first


1 |

1. St Leonard and the dreaded stocks

Middleton Guardian, Thursday 8 May 2008
IN SOME early photographs, taken when the area (now Jubilee Park) was still agricultural land, the church could clearly be seen, proudly overlooking the town that had grown up around it. Mr Wheeler lived in New Lane. Part of the field was his well manicured garden. The church is now surrounded by trees and can no longer be seen from some areas.

2. 'Dis-grave-ful' cemetery

Middleton Guardian, Thursday 1 May 2008
"YOU can tell the state of a nation by the way it cares for its dead". I heard this quote a number of years ago though I cannot find who originally said it, or where. However, it bears truth.

3. Don't put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington ...

Middleton Guardian, Thursday 24 April 2008
IN 1924, five local men met to consider forming a Middleton Amateur and Dramatic Society (MADS).

4. Stanycliffe

Middleton Guardian, Thursday 26 July 2007
LOCAL historian Geoff Wellens steps back in time and explores Stanycliffe ...

5. Ringing the changes

Middleton Guardian, Friday 2 February 2007
NOTHING remains the same forever. For example, Middleton Parish Church has evolved over 1200 years from a wooden Saxon Church (where the remains of St Cuthbert rested for a while) to the Norman stone church of 1120, to the "Langley" church (1412), then the rebuilding by Sir Richard Assheton in 1524 as a thanks-offering for the victory at the Battle of Flodden.
1 |