WELCOME to this website, where you will find articles on different aspects of our local history, mainly about Thackley and Idle, but also some about Bradford.
- Apperley Bridge: the 1866 viaduct disaster
- Bomber Crash in Idle, 1941
- Buck Wood and Buck Mill
- Buck Wood: episodes of change
- Building Buck Mill Bridge: uniting two communities
- Canal Tavern, Thackley
- Death of a Distinguished Scholar: an unsolved mystery
- Hill 60 re-enactment, 1915
- Joseph Wright: Childhood
- Maggot farms: a Cure for Tuberculosis
- Sidney Jackson, rambling
- Sidney Jackson, the Bulletin, and the archaeology of Thackley and Idle
- Thackley Tunnels: changing landscapes, and the men who built our railways
- Thackley Tunnels: Passengers: accidents, attacks, and strange behaviour
- Thackley workhouse, 1765 -1858
- Thackley’s hidden graveyard
- The Navvy Mission in Thackley
- The Open Air School, Thackley
- The Open Air School: Lessons
- Toothache trees
- Water-casting – in Idle!
- What’s in a name: Idle, Thackley, and Yorkshire place-names
Please click on one of the titles above to open a file
Most of the writing is on subjects we find particularly interesting, such as medical history, industrial archaeology, and of course the people who lived in this part of Bradford where we now live. Some material has been published before, but mostly the research we’ve done is because that’s what we, like many retired academics (or history geeks), enjoy doing. And we’ll continue to explore the past – so watch out for new items appearing!
We hope you find what we have written enjoyable and useful. If you want to quote from it, or copy any pictures or text, please follow the rules on copyright, and acknowledge the source of the material, www.thackleyandidlehistoryfiles.org. And you can contact us at thidlehf@gmail.com if you have any enquiries or comments.
Thackley and Idle History Files 