Bramham the Village in Times Past

This was the A1 coming down into the centre of the village. On the immediate left was the entrance to College Lane, where Bramham College Lodge stood.

Soldiers marching up Bowcliffe Hill during the First World War.

These four back to back houses with cellars were pulled down to make way for the by-pass in 1964. They stood next to the brickyards but no bricks were made there in living memory. However according to the 1851 census, bricks and tiles were being made then. A well was found under the front steps of the houses.

Two aerial views, one taken when the A1 went past it (top) and the other after the by-pass was built. The castellated building was originally The Fox Inn but has not been an inn in living memory. It was mentioned in an 1867 Trade Directory but not the 1901 census.

This photograph shows the A1 passing the farm house

The roundabout was constructed after the second world war in the early 1950's, replacing the previous crossroads.

Erected towards the end of the seventeenth century, it stands on a circular mound and is built in magnesian limestone. On the south side is a stone arch, leading to a bricked up doorway, probably the entrance to a ground floor storage area or to allow loading of carts under cover. The sails were lost in a storm in 1829, so that corn could no longer be ground. However the machinery remained until after 1920. In 1927 the windmill was lined with concrete and used first by Wetherby Rural Council and later by the Claro Water Board, as a water tower to pump water to the top of the village.

Type used in the 1930's and 1940's. Mr Lawn from Bramham Crossroads used to hire out this threshing machine to surrounding farmers

Their dress could not have made the job an easy one in high summer

This meeting was outside Hope Hall