Bramham the Village in Times Past

This was erected in 1902 by Mr John Lloyd Wharton, MP for Ripon, who lived at Bramham Old Hall in memory of his wife, Susan Frances, who died in 1872. This photograph was taken shortly after the Lych Gate was erected and shows Mr Sam Varley, the Church Sexton.

This photograph was taken seventy years later. Notice how the steps have worn and the slightly different gates.

Taken in the early 1960’s. The wooden barn from where Mr George Mawer ran his joinery business can be seen and where Canon Hicks found the old wooden panelling now in the Church.

Two slightly different views, taken before any houses were built, probably in the 1920's

A glimpse of Bramham Old Hall and Church View when it was two cottages. It was converted into one house in about 1974. Back Lane, originally a gated cart track, ends here, hence the seemingly odd route of Vicarage Lane.

The remains of the arch can still he seen, but the cottages are long demolished. The house on the left remains, once, it is said, a coaching inn with the archway leading into a yard for the coaches and horses.‑ A stone dated 1661 was found in the cottage, and a two man prison, under the kitchen floor, hewn out of rock, access being by levering up a trap door. Prisoners were kept here overnight on their way up and down the Great North Road