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53.84°N 1.73°W. / 53.84; -1.73. Idle is a residential suburban area in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, in England and was a separate village, and before that it was the Manor of Idle. Idle is loosely bordered by the areas of Eccleshill, Wrose, Thackley, Apperley Bridge, and Greengates, in the north-east of the city.
Marsden, West Yorkshire. / 53.6011; -1.9267. Marsden is a large village in the Colne Valley, in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It is in the South Pennines close to the Peak District which lies to the south. The village is 7 miles (11 km) west of Huddersfield at the confluence of the River Colne and Wessenden Brook.
This is a list of electoral divisions and wards in the ceremonial county of West Yorkshire in Yorkshire and the Humber. All changes since the re-organisation of local government following the passing of the Local Government Act 1972 are shown. The number of councillors elected for each electoral division or ward is shown in brackets.
Little London is a village in West Yorkshire, England, that is divided between the Guiseley and Rawdon and the Horsforth wards of the City of Leeds and the Idle and Thackley ward of the City of Bradford.
The Idle Working Men's Club. The Idle Working Men's Club is a working men's club in the village of Idle, a suburb of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England . The club was established in 1928 by workmen from a local sewage works who found that their shift working arrangements and the pub licensing hours left them unable to have a drink after work.
Church Building. Font with crowd of carved angels at St Michael's. The church building was designed by James Mallinson and Thomas Healey. [8] [9] The church has a north porch and a turret containing two bells. An organ was first installed in 1858 and an organ chamber installed in 1880. [10] The church is decorated with sculptures by Robert Mawer.
Aug 23, 2016 · By the mid to late 19th century, Idle, like much of the Bradford district, was heavily involved in the textile industry. A look at the Ordnance Survey map of 1893 shows many mills in the area, including Castle Mills, Union Mill on Butt Lane and the nearby New Mills. By the 1870s around 1,100 people from Idle were employed in the township’s mills.
