At the end of February 2018, Kildwick School had a WW1 Study Day – and members of the Farnhill WW1 Volunteers Project were invited to attend. Graham, the project co-ordinator, gave a talk in assembly – explaining the project and giving the pupils an insight into what life was like during the war, both at […]
Our report on the first year of our project has been sent to the Heritage Lottery Fund. We are doing wonderfully well. Here are just some of the highlights: We have established good relations with the local press and have received excellent coverage. We have had good attendance at our events and received positive feedback […]
John William Dawson served in the Royal Field Artillery during WW1 and kept a signals training notebook. After the war his wife Annie put the book to a different use, using the blank pages to record recipes and household hints, starting at the back with the pages turned upside down. A slideshow has been created […]
In a second article for the project lookng at life at home during WW1, Isobel Stirk examines what both adults and children were reading, how they were spending their leisure time, and what children were being taught about the war at school. Article – Literature, learning and leisure – 1914 to 1918
The Farnhill & Kildwick Local History Group maintains a month-by-month diary of events in the two villages. The diary begins in May 1914 and provides information not just about the men that went off to fight in WW1, but also how the impact of the war affected the village. You can view the diary at: […]
John Spencer Whitham, of Bucklar Hill, served as a stretcher-bearer in WW1 with the Duke of Welington’s (West Riding) Regiment. He survived the war and when he died, in 1950, this motto was found tucked away inside his bible. As we approach the start of 2018, with the centenary of the end of WW1 coming […]
Either side of WW1, George Holliday – one of the Farnhill WW1 Volunteers – was a milkman in Farnhill and regularly had to get milk up Starkey Lane, Mary Street, and the other steep, narrow streets of the village. He came up with an elegant solution to the problem – he employed an assistant to […]
A few months ago, in a news report we looked at whereabouts in the village the Farnhill Volunteers lived at the time they signed-up to serve in WW1. We’ve now expanded this piece of work to examine what happened to the men after the war. Did they leave the village and, if so, where did […]
Our project is researching the lives of all the 68 men from the village of Farnhill who volunteered to serve prior to the introduction of mandatory conscription early in 1916. Of these men, just seven died while on active service during the war. In this article, published 99 years after the signing of the Armistice, we […]
A little while ago the project started to research the post-war 1919/1920 season Kildwick Old Boys football team, which contained a number of men who had just returned from the war. This research is now complete and an article on the team, and its progress to the top of the championship table, is available for […]
