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Children from workhouses and orphanages served in the area’s mills and faced harsh conditions, writes Robin Longbottom

THE CLARKE Foley Addingham Trust annual distribution to the senior citizens of of the village will take place this month.

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TOWARDS the end of 2019, a small ruinous building off Staveley Road in Ingrow was demolished. It had fallen into disrepair and been vandalised after its last occupants had departed some ten years earlier. Although largely unknown, it was a building of major significance to Keighley. It was the first purpose-built mill of the town’s industrial era. Its origins had nothing to do with any of the traditional trades or crafts that had previously been practised in the area. It was a water-powered wire drawing mill built by Thomas Ramsden of Halifax, a manufacturer of carding combs for t...

Submitting... But it took the enforced closure of the property to complete the job, and eight weeks of further restoration later, it is welcoming guests once more. Neil McNair has restored the waterwheel at Low Mill Guest House, Bainbridge, Leyburn This time it was the waterwheel itself that was the focus of attention, and in its renewed state is capable again of harnessing the River Bain – thought to be the shortest in Britain – to drive two millstones and the associated cogs and gears. “It was last used to turn out animal feed, at a time when the production of other produce had been i...