Talks at 7.30pm at Church House    

(Programme starts again in October)

      Autumn 2008  Newsletter 

Friends of Ilkley Cemetery

Ilkley Past and Present

Sutton publication

                        by Civic Society members Alex Cockshott & Denise Shillitoe                            

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Ilkley Civic Society

We are a local group interested in Ilkley past and present .

We aim:

·        To promote high standards of planning and architecture.

·        To educate the public in the geography, history, natural history and architecture.

·        To secure the preservation, protection, development and improvement of features of historic or public interest in Ilkley.

   We research local history through architecture, planning applications and local families.

   We guide local heritage walks through the summer. We can provide individual guided walks for visiting groups by arrangement.

   We give  illustrated talks, e.g. lost buildings of Ilkley, schools through the years in Ilkley, from village to town and Ilkley past and present.

    We are developing a digital record of photographs, postcards, maps and other data.   This includes planning applications for buildings from their introduction in Ilkley  in 1869.

We are investigating renamed streets, houses, lost buildings, hydros, schools, gravestones and old Ilkley families and businesses.

           We welcome people sharing information and memories about Ilkley and  we reply to any enquiries.

The Changing Face of Ilkley

      an exhibition of photographs of Ilkley in the 1950s,

a joint exhibition with the Friends of the Manor House on the ground floor of the Manor House

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For further details please contact secretary AlexCockshott, or ring 01943 601561