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    Keld School Group 1940s
    Keld School Group 1940s
    Keld School Group 1940s
    Keld School Group 1930's
    Keld School Group 1930s
    Keld School Group 1930s
    1930
    John Herbert & Lil Clarkson, unknown, Nellie Alderson, Unknown 1930
    1905
    1905 Stonehouse Annas Amelia Alderson with parents Margaret and John & Johns father
    1915
    Front -Mosser Alderson, unknown Back - Dick Alderson & Percy Metcalfe 1915
    Wedding Keld Chapel
    Wedding Keld Congregational Chapel
    Black Howe
    Black Howe
    Wilfred Pickles Radio Show 1946
    Wilfred Pickles Radio Script
    Northern Children's Hour 1946
    John and Mary Alderson
    Wedding Photograph
    Thomas Parrington, Keld
    Tot Haykin
    Outside Smithy Holme
    Syd & Joan Clarkson
    Outside Methodist Chapel, Keld
    Stone laying for Public Hall at Keld 1926
    Stone House
    Starling Castle Keld
    Neddy Dick's parlour, Keld
    Note all the bells above his harmonium and his famous stone piano to the right of the fire
    James Rukin newspaper article
    Abstinence Certificate John Rukin 1892
    Rev & Mrs Vasey ,
    Minister at Congregational Chapel Keld
    Rochdales cartridge cart Ravenseat
    Robert and Mary Ann Thornborrow,
    Farmed at Frith Lodge and retired to West Stonesdale
    Rev Edmundson at Stone House
    R A Scott Keld
    Postman postcard
    Phyllis Fawcett
    Married Jack Metcalfe and lived at Firs
    Phyllis, John Herbert & Lil Clarkson
    West Stonesdale
    Pat Jack
    At Tan Hill
    Percy Metcalfe & Edna Leather
    Walking over the suspension bridge below Crackpot Hall
    Keld
    Neddy Dick's snuff box
    Neddy Dick (Richard Alderson) grave
    Muker Churchyard
    Nanny Rukin (married name Appleton)
    Mrs Haykin
    Smithy Holme
    Michael Rukin with Nanny and Betty 1894
    Mary Leach
    nee Harker half sister to Ambrose
    Mary Jane & Christopher Alderson
    Harkers House (Mary's mum was John Clarkson's sister)
    Margaret Rukin (nee Iveson) Black Howe
    Alderson Family, Stone House
    Back: Margaret, Eleanor, John, Amelia, Isabel, Front: James senior, James junior, Albert, Margaret, Ellen
    Margaret, Polly & Phyllis Fawcett Angram
    Dorothy Brown's (Clarkson) great aunts
    Margaret Alderson.
    Wife of George Alderson. (was Kilburn from Hoggarths)
    Manse and Congregational Chapel
    Lil & Lena Ellers
    Lil & Lena Kirkbride
    Lizzie Alderson 1887 - 1973
    married John (Jack) Rukin
    Laurie Rukin & Pat Jack
    Silver Hill behind them
    Keld
    George Clarkson's van parked outside the Reading Room
    Keld Methodist-Chapel
    Keld school photo
    Keld School 1917
    Keld Post )ffice
    John Rukin and Richard Alderson (Neddy Dick)
    Keld in snow
    Keld ladies
    Keld
    Johnny & Pat Jack, Dick Alderson
    At auction
    Keld 1955
    Alderson Family late 1880's
    John & Amelia Alderson with Mary, John, James, Phyllis, Jane-Ann Elizabeth-Alice & George.
    John Rukin
    With shorthorn cow
    John Scott Band of Hope Burnley
    John was the son of Anthony Alderson Scott & Annas Hunter of High Frith. He and his brother moved to Burnley and became policemen. John carried his Swaledale roots and established the Band of Hope there.
    John Alderson Hill Top above Keld with son John
    John Alderson , Hill Top , Keld
    John ( topper) Oliver Leach (who was hired at Hill Top)John Alderson,
    Hill Top, above Keld
    John Alderson, Smithy Holme
    John Alderson & father John, Hill Top
    on way to Kirkby Stephen
    Stone House 1930s
    Jimmy, James, Albert, Margaret, Ellen, Amelia Alderson and relatives
    Jim Whitehead at Ravenseat
    Stone House 1877
    John & Amelia Alderson's children: John, Annas, Amelia, James (Rachel Hall's grandad) Elizabeth
    Jim 'Mosser' Alderson
    Butt Rigg, Keld
    Jim ( Mosser) Alderson
    Jim & Albert Alderson Stone House
    At Becks Meeting sheepfolds
    Wedding at Top (Methodist) Chapel
    Annie Porter, Jennifer Alderson, Sylvia Hunter, Mary Clarkson, Lizzy Clarkson, Phyllis Hunter
    Wedding photo outside Thorns 1947
    Jennie Hunters wedding to R Peacock married at Keld Top Chapel 17th May 1947
    James Rukin
    James Rukin 1938
    James Rukin newspaper article
    James & Margaret Ellen Alderson ( Stone House) ,
    married at Muker Church in 1910
    James & John Alderson, Stone House pre1900
    Jack, Jenny & Amelia Hunter Thorns
    jack rukin
    Jack Rukin Kisdon View
    Jack & Amelia Thornborrow
    Hope House , Keld . 1960s , from the right , Stan Souter, Eleanor , Rachel & Jimmy Alderson , Mike Morland.
    Hill Top Keld
    Hill Top, ravenseat
    Harkers House Keld (2)
    Haykins Smithy Holme (2)

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