Bramham the Village in Times Past

The shop in the centre with the foliage on the wall was a newsagent's, later a barber's and latterly a butcher's shop, It was demolished in April 1994. Before becoming a shop it was a one up one down cottage where, at one time, a family called Hunt lived. They had eight children and called one of them Bramham Moor.

This is how it looked until the latest road alterations at the beginning of the 1990's.

This photograph taken, before 1914, shows Thomas Thompson standing in the square. He went round the village selling fruit and vegetables from his cart, and , from his small holding on Tenter Hill, to Hunt staff returning to Hope Hall.

Taken from the bottom of the hill about 1913. The house on the right was known as Tenter Hill Lodge where a Miss Bownas ran a school for young ladies in the mid-nineteenth century. When the curate of the Church, the Rev Thomas Radcliffe, gave religious instruction to the young ladies, to show their appreciation, they presented a velvet altar cloth to the Church in 1849. Early this century the house was used as a butchers shop owned by a Mr Hebron. On the left is a house known as The Grange. Previous known owners included Miss Celia Ledgard, Mrs Challoner and Captain Thompson. Bramham Park Estate made it into three houses, which is how it remains today.

Looking down towards the village in 1913

Note the farm entrance on the right. The farm house was demolished for the construction of the first bypass in the early 1960's.