Date of Addition |
Details |
|---|---|
| 12th July 2008 | Scott's Yard section added to Ossett Houses |
| 12th July 2008 | "What's New" page linked from the header bar |
| 12th July 2008 | Picture on Contact page |
| 6th August 2008 | Major update - New section named "Ossett People" featuring the Ossett Godfather - Benjamin Ingham of Palermo (1786-1861) and the Ossett Ingham family. |
| 20th September 2008 | Added 1900 map of Park House to Ossett School page. |
| 13th December 2008 | New West Wells House information in Ossett Houses page. |
| 10th January 2009 | Added section detailing some of the history of the Gawthorpe Zion Burial Ground - included in the Gawthorpe Page. |
| 13th January 2009 | 1961 Maypole Dancers page updated in Picture Gallery with the names of the missing girls. Thanks to Mary and Paul Shepherd, who provided the last few names. |
| 23rd January 2009 | Minor edits and fixes to Mark Senior page. Added Sam Wilson picture that had got deleted. |
| 24th January 2009 | Additions to Ossett School page. |
| 8th February 2009 | Additions to Picture Gallery descriptions, Acknowledgement page, Ossett 16th & 17th Century page, Ossett Collieries and Ossett Houses page. |
| 12th February 2009 | Additions to Bleak Cottage in Ossett Houses page. |
| 14th February 2009 | Updates and corrections to Bleak Cottage write up in Ossett Houses page. |
| 21st February 2009 | Added the Hansons to the 7 Haggs Hill Road section of the Ossett Houses page. |
| 22nd February 2009 | Eight new Ossett pictures added to Picture Gallery. |
| 24th February 2009 | Small additions to Ossett Houses and Ossett Collieries pages. |
| 26th February 2009 | Eli Marsden Wilson page updated. |
| 3rd March 2009 | Bleak Cottage update in Ossett Houses. |
| 7th March 2009 | Ossett Collieries update with additional material about Roundwood Colliery and the Greaves family, coalmasters and mining engineers. |
| 7th March 2009 | Ossett People update with the story of John Wheelwright who was allegedly born in Gawthorpe, Ossett. Wheelwright's charity, the Wheelwright Trust established after his death in 1724 was responsible for the founding of Rishworth School, Halifax and Wheelwright Grammar School in Dewsbury. |
| 9th March 2009 | Added story of Robert Chappell, the Ossett Highwayman and Jonathan Westerman, Ossett Poacher involved in a fatal gunfight to the Ossett People page. Further corrections and updates to Ossett Collieries page. |
| 12th March 2009 | Updated the Benjamin Ingham of the Inghamite Church chapter with additional information on the Ossett People page. |
| 14th March 2009 | Added Manor House or Manor Villa, Manor Lane, South Ossett to the Ossett Houses page |
| 17th March 2009 | Updated Bleak Cottage and added Sowood Cottage write up courtesy of Alan Howe in Ossett Houses. |
| 21st March 2009 | In Ossett People added feature on David Peace - Ossett author of "The Damned United" and the "Red Riding Quartet" recently shown on Channel 4 TV. |
| 23rd March 2009 | In Ossett People added short feature on Ossett's Lancashire and England cricketer Barry Wood and his brother Ron Wood who played for Yorkshire. |
| 23rd March 2009 | In Ossett People added short feature on Ossett's Neil Smith who played cricket in the 1970s and 1980s for Yorkshire and Essex as a wicket-keeper and hard-hitting batsman. |
| 9th April 2009 | Ossett Wilsons - To Leeds added C & A Wilson, Moorside Mills, Eccleshill, Bradford which is now Bradford Industrial Museum. |
| 19th July 2009 | Added three names to Ossett Common Rovers picture in the Picture Gallery courtesy of Bill Tilford. |
| 4th August 2009 | Major update - New section named "Flushdyke Sketches" featuring over thirty original sketches of old Flushdyke by Douglas Brammer. Clicking on the smaller black and white sketch brings up a larger, colour picture in a new window with additional comments detailing the history of each scene. Thanks to Douglas Brammer for sharing his work and giving permission for the sketches to be used on this web site. |
| 4th September 2009 | Added paragraph in "Ossett History - 19th Century" about the 1822 death of John Harrap, husband of "Bet Checker" a notorious Ossett woman who was serving time in prison at the time of her husband's death for passing counterfeit coins. Hat tip to Alan Howe for finding this extract in the Leeds Mercury archive. |
| 5th September 2009 | Added obituary for Eli Marsden Wilson from the 'Ossett Observer' dated 20th November 1965. Thanks to Neville Ashby for forwarding a copy of the obituary in an email. |
| 27th September 2009 | In the "Flushdyke Sketches" page, added rare 1771 hand-drawn map of Flushdyke used in a legal dispute between Joshua Haigh and Joseph Ingham, both of Ossett (thanks Alan Howe). Also added extra information to "Picture Gallery - Ossett Common Rovers 1964" (thanks David Sexton). |
| 22nd November 2009 | Added more new pictures to the Picture Gallery and also swapped out some of the existing pictures for higher quality scans thanks to pictures supplied by Richard Glover of Ossett. |
| 3rd December 2009 | Added some extra information about Ossett Workshouse plus general tidying up in the 18th Century account of Ossett's history. |
| 19th December 2009 | Added four more Ossett pictures to the Picture Gallery Section. |
| 8th January 2010 | Added new picture of Eli Marsden Wilson at his home in Acton London with his companion Mary Cockburn circa 1958 and another Wilson etching, probably of Bank Street, Ossett in Edwardian or Victorian times. Added extra text information (Mortuary House) to Flushdyke Workhouse sketch page. Thanks Margaret Wilby. |
| 31st January 2010 | Added details of NAA dig at Mitchell Laithes to "Oslaset and Vikings" page. Corrected text and added acknowledgements to "Ossett Wilsons 1700-1900" page and updated the "Acknowledgements" page. |
| 21st February 2010 | Added further details to "Industrial Ossett" picture in Picture Gallery. New information added about death of Benjamin Ingham of Sicily and further details about the life of Benjamin Ingham of the Inghamites in "Ossett People". |