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According to a map of Yeadon from 1875, there were 28 landowners; most with plots over 10 acres. The same map indicates that the early streets in the Borough were Church Lane, Fire Avenue (now Baily Road), Union Avenue (extending through Holy Cross Cemetery), Lansdowne Avenue, and an unidentified road that is now MacDade Boulevard.
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Yeadon like this: YEADON, a town, a township-chapelry, and a sub-district, in Wharfedale district, W. R. Yorkshire. The town stands on a hill, 2 miles E of Apperley r. station, and 3 S of Otley; is an unshapely place; carries on woollen manufacture; and has a ...
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53.869°N 1.688°W. / 53.869; -1.688. Yeadon is a town within the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England . Most of the town is in the Otley and Yeadon ward of Leeds City Council and the Leeds North West parliamentary constituency. A southern part of the town, north of Swincar Avenue on Kirk Lane and south of the A65 ...
YBHC Kick-off Reception 2016. American Legion Post 176 1936. Yeadon High School Football 1962. Yeadon High School Football 1963. William B Evans School 1921. YHS Dedication Booklet 1933. Yeadon Borough 1902. Thomas Jackson, First Black Yeadon Police Officer.
All the images, from the website of Aireborough Historical Society, give a fascinating insight into the people and places of Yeadon around 1900 or so. Many of them were taken onto glass slides and were digitally transferred by John Hobson. One picture shows blacksmith J E Thompson as he shaped a metal object on his anvil using a hammer and tongs.
The two-volume Return of Owners of Land, 1873 is a survey of land ownership in the United Kingdom. It was the first complete picture of the distribution of land ownership in Great Britain [1] since the Domesday Book of 1086, thus the 1873 Return is sometimes called the "Modern Domesday", [2] and in Ireland since the Down Survey of 1655-1656.
Mar 26, 2017 · All told, hundreds of millions of dollars were paid by Jewish buyers to Arab landowners. Official records show that in 1933 £854,796 was paid by Jewish individuals and organizations for Arab land, mostly large estates; in 1934 the figure was £1,647,836 and in 1935, £1,699,488.
