name tde citation last Lewis first Samuel title Alverthorpe url http www.british history.ac.uk report.aspx .... ref name Bartlett Governance Alverthorpe and Thornes was anciently a township which included Westgate ... Alverthorpe work Visitor UK accessdate 10 February 2011 ref After the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, Alverthorpe became one of the 17 constituent parishes of the Wakefield Poor Law ...?Wakefield Wakefield.shtml publisher workhouses.org.uk accessdate 2011 02 04 ref Geography Alverthorpe is 1 miles north west of Wakefield in the valley of the Alverthorpe Beck which supplied water ... tde Much of the meadowland between Alverthorpe and the neighbouring village of Wrenthorpe is a designated ... Sirdar hand knitting and rug wool, was established in Alverthorpe over 200 years ago. The company ... with the M1 motorway at junction 40 , about 5 km from Alverthorpe. A railway line ran through the village, and Alverthorpe railway station , close to the village centre, was opened in October ... White s General and Commercial Directory of Wakefield, Horbury, Alverthorpe, Sandal Magna, Stanley ... discover explore wakefield alias 7 title St Paul s Church, Alverthorpe work ... wakefield alverthorpe alver2.html author Ken Bartlett title Alverthorpe and Low Laithes year ... in Alverthorpe See also Alverthorpe railway station References reflist External links Commons category Alverthorpe Category Villages in West Yorkshire pl Alverthorpe ... more details
Infobox UK disused station name Alverthorpe image name caption locale Alverthorpe borough City of Wakefield original Great Northern Railway Great Britain Great Northern Railway pregroup Great Northern Railway postgroup London and North Eastern Railway platforms ? latitude 53.6878 longitude 1.5275 gridref SE313213 years October 1872 events Station opens years1 5 April 1954 events1 Station closes Alverthorpe railway station served the village of Alverthorpe near Wakefield in the England English county of West Yorkshire . History Opened by the Great Northern Railway Great Britain Great Northern Railway , it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Railways Act 1921 Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, closing a mere six years later. The site today Nothing now remains on site and the two sides of the railway triangle that brought trains to the station have been dismantled. Trains still use the eastern part of the triangle, bypassing the site between Outwood and Wakefield Westgate stations on the Wakefield Line . Disused Rail Start rail line one to two previous Ossett railway station Ossett next1 Outwood railway station Lofthouse and Outwood next2 Wakefield Westgate railway station Wakefield Westgate route1 London and North Eastern Railway br p style background e5e4e6 small Great Northern Railway Great Britain Great Northern Railway small route2 London and North Eastern Railway br p style background e5e4e6 small Great Northern Railway Great Britain Great Northern Railway small col FFFF00 end box References Butt Stations Jowett Nationalised http www.npemap.org.uk tiles map.html 430,421,1 Station on navigable O.S. map Category Disused railway stations in Wakefield Category Former Great Northern Railway stations Yorkshire Humber railstation stub ... more details
Clive Brooke, Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe born 21 June 1942 is a United Kingdom British trade unionist, Labour Party UK Labour Member of the House of Lords and businessman. The son of John Brooke and Mary Colbeck, Brooke was educated in Thornes House School , Wakefield . From 1964 to 1982, he worked as Assistant Secretary of the Inland Revenue Staff Federation , from 1982 to 1988 as Deputy General Secretary and as General Secretary from 1988 to 1995. In 1996 Brooke became Joint General Secretary of Public Services Tax and Commerce Union and held this post until 1998. He was Member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress TUC between 1989 and 1996 and between 1993 and 1996 of the TUC Executive Committee. Brooke is a Member of the Public and Commercial Services Union PCS , the successor to the civil service union he led. On 2 August 1997, he was created a life peer as Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe , of Alverthorpe in the County of West Yorkshire . He sits on the Labour benches. In the same year he became Trustee of the Institute for Public Policy Research . He has been a trustee and Council member of Community Service Volunteers CSV and is a trustee of Action on Addiction . He served as a non executive director of National Air Traffic Services NATS formerly National Air Traffic Services from 2001 until 2006. http www.nats.co.uk article 19 73 two new government directors.html Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe has been married to Lorna Hopkin Roberts since 1967. References cite web url http www.thepeerage.com p18030.htm i180296 title thePeerage publisher accessdate 2006 11 22 cite web url http www.dodonline.co.uk engine.asp?lev1 4&lev2 38&menu 81&biog y&id 26720 title DodOnline publisher accessdate 2006 11 22 s start s off succession box title General Secretary of the Inland Revenue Staff Federation before Tony Christopher, Baron Christopher Tony Christopher after Position abolished years 1988&ndash 1996 succession box title General Secretary of the Public Services, Tax ... more details
infobox UK place country England static image static image caption latitude 53.6971 longitude 1.5471 official name Kirkhamgate population metropolitan borough City of Wakefield metropolitan county West Yorkshire region Yorkshire and the Humber constituency westminster Morley and Outwood UK Parliament constituency Morley and Outwood post town WAKEFIELD postcode district WF2 postcode area WF dial code os grid reference SE300224 Kirkhamgate is a village, north west of Wakefield , West Yorkshire , England. It originated as a hamlet in the Alverthorpe township in the parish of Wakefield in the West Riding of Yorkshire . Geography Kirkhamgate is situated on rising ground at a junction on the Wakefield to Batley road to the east of the M1 motorway. It is primarily a residential village surrounded by farmland that is part of the Rhubarb Triangle . External links Commons category inline Kirkhamgate Geographic location Centre Kirkhamgate North East Ardsley Leeds Northeast Carr Gate East Wrenthorpe Southeast Alverthorpe , Wakefield South M1 motorway M1 Southwest Ossett West Dewsbury Northwest Batley Category Villages in West Yorkshire Category Geography of Wakefield District WestYorkshire geo stub pl Kirkhamgate ... more details
of local talent. He was born in Alverthorpe sic sic? in Yorkshire, and as a youth he has time for development ... DATE OF BIRTH 1905 PLACE OF BIRTH Alverthorpe or Hemsworth , Wakefield DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH ... from Alverthorpe Category People from Hemsworth Category Place of death missing Category Rugby ... more details
magistrate in Horsforth , Leeds . Willcock was born in Alverthorpe , Wakefield , Yorkshire ... January 1896 PLACE OF BIRTH Alverthorpe , Wakefield , Yorkshire DATE OF DEATH 12 December 1952 PLACE ... 1952 deaths Category People from Alverthorpe Category English case law Category English criminals ... more details
Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet 10 July 1707 15 June 1788 was an England English landowner and curate, of Little Preston , Yorkshire . The eldest son of Christopher Lowther d. 1718 and grandson of William Lowther of Swillington, younger Sir William Lowther , he went to school in Kirkleatham before entering Trinity College, Cambridge in 1726. ref Venn id LWTR726W name Lowther, William ref Ordained priest in 1734, he became rector of Swillington from 1757 to 1788. On 31 August 1753, he married Anne Zouch d. 1759 , sister of Thomas Zouch . They had two sons, each of whom married a daughter of John Fane, 9th Earl of Westmorland William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale 1757 1844 Sir John Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Swillington Sir John Lowther, 1st Baronet 1759 1844 In 1754, he bought Alverthorpe Hall from his cousin, Thomas Maude. He inherited the estate of Swillington in 1763, upon the death of his first cousin Sir William Lowther, 2nd Baronet . The following year, on 22 August 1764, he was himself created a baronet . References reflist http www.stirnet.com HTML genie british ll lowther2.htm Lowther pedigree 2 http www.archivesnetworkwales.info cgi bin anw search2?coll id 1169&inst id 29&term Lowther MSS rayment b start box s reg gb bt s new s ttl title Lowther Baronets Baronet br of Little Preston years 1764 1788 s aft after William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale William Lowther end box DEFAULTSORT Lowther, William, 1st Baronet Category 1707 births Category 1788 deaths Category Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain Category Church of England clergy Category Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Category English landowners Baronet stub ... more details
Infobox Union Please include all unused fields for future use. See template talk Infobox Union for usage. name PTC country United Kingdom affiliation Trades Union Congress TUC members full name Public Services, Tax and Commerce Union native name image founded January 1996 current head dissolved date March 1998 dissolved state Merged with Civil and Public Services Association CPSA into merged into Public and Commercial Services Union office London, England people Clive Brooke and John Sheldon, general secretaries website footnotes The Public Services, Tax and Commerce Union PTC was a short lived trade union in the United Kingdom . The union was formed in January 1996, when the Inland Revenue Staff Federation merged with the National Union of Civil and Public Servants . ref name warwick http www.warwick.ac.uk services library mrc ead 415ptccol.htm A collection level description for the papers of the Public Services, Tax and Commerce Union , University of Warwick ref The general secretaries of the two former unions, Clive Brooke, Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe Clive Brooke and John Sheldon respectively, became joint general secretaries of the new union. The union s primarily worked in the Civil Service , but also in other public organisations. In March 1998, the union joined with the Civil and Public Services Association CPSA , forming the Public and Commercial Services Union PCS . ref name warwick References references Category Organizations established in 1996 Category Organizations disestablished in 1998 Category Former British trade unions Category Public sector trade unions Category 1996 establishments in the United Kingdom ... more details
coord 53.683 1.499 display title region GB scale 100000 Infobox UK postcode area area code WF The WF postcode area , also known as the Wakefield postcode area ref Royal Mail, Address Management Guide , 2004 ref , is a group of postcode districts around Batley , Castleford , Dewsbury , Heckmondwike , Knottingley , Liversedge , Mirfield , Normanton, West Yorkshire Normanton , Ossett , Horbury , Pontefract and Wakefield in England . Coverage The approximate coverage of the postcode districts postcode area table start WF1 WAKEFIELD Alverthorpe , Eastmoor, Kirkthorpe, Outwood, West Yorkshire Outwood , Wakefield Wakefield City Centre . City of Wakefield Wakefield WF2 WAKEFIELD Kirkhamgate , Kettlethorpe, Lupset, Portobello, Newmillerdam , Sandal, Thornes, Walton, Wakefield Walton Wakefield . Wakefield WF3 WAKEFIELD East Ardsley , Lofthouse, West Yorkshire Lofthouse , Lofthouse Gate, Robin Hood, West Yorkshire Robin Hood , Stanley, West Yorkshire Stanley , Tingley , West Ardsley City of Leeds Leeds and Wakefield WF4 WAKEFIELD Crigglestone, Crofton, West Yorkshire Crofton , Durkar , Flockton , Havercroft , Horbury , Netherton, Wakefield Netherton , New Crofton, Ryhill , West Bretton , Woolley. Wakefield and Kirklees . WF5 OSSETT Gawthorpe, Ossett . Wakefield and Kirklees WF6 NORMANTON Altofts , Normanton, West Yorkshire Normanton Wakefield WF7 PONTEFRACT Ackworth, West Yorkshire Ackworth Moor Top , Featherstone , Purston Jaglin, Streethouse Wakefield WF8 PONTEFRACT Darrington, West Yorkshire Darrington , Kirk Smeaton, Pontefract Monkhill , Thorpe Audlin. Wakefield, Selby district Selby and Doncaster district Doncaster . WF9 PONTEFRACT Badsworth , Fitzwilliam, West Yorkshire Fitzwilliam , Hemsworth , Kinsley, South Elmsall , South Kirkby , Upton, West Yorkshire Upton . Wakefield and Doncaster. WF10 CASTLEFORD Airedale, Allerton Bywater , Castleford , Glasshoughton . Wakefield and Leeds WF11 KNOTTINGLEY Brotherton , Byram, Criddling Stubbs, Kellingley, Knottingley . Wakefield ... more details
This is a list of educational establishments in the City of Wakefield , West Yorkshire , England . State schools Secondary schools Airedale High School , Airedale Carleton High School , Carleton Castleford High School Technology College , Castleford Cathedral School, Wakefield Crofton High School , Crofton Featherstone High School , Purston Hemsworth Arts and Community College , Hemsworth Horbury School , Horbury Kettlethorpe High School , Wakefield Knottingley High School , Knottingley Minsthorpe Community College , South Elmsall Freeston Business & Enterprise College , Normanton Ossett School , Ossett Outwood Grange Academy , Outwood St Thomas Becket Catholic College , Sandal St Wilfrids Catholic High School, North Featherstone St Wilfrid s Catholic High School , Featherstone The King s High School Pontefract , Pontefract Wakefield City Academy , Wakefield Primary schools Crofton Junior School, Crofton Pinders Primary School, Wakefield Jerry Clay Lane Junior and Infants School, Wrenthorpe, Wakefield Lofthouse Gate Primary, Lofthouse, Wakefield Standbridge Primary, Wakefield Stanley Grove, Stanley, Wakefield Methodist Junior and Infants School, Thornes, Wakefield St. Peters Junior and Infants, Wakefield Walton Primary School, Walton, Wakefield Wrenthorpe Primary, Wrenthorpe, Wakefield Snapethorpe Primary School, Lupset , Wakefield St. Ignatius Catholic Primary School, Ossett St. Paul s Church of England VA Junior and Infant School, Alverthorpe , Wakefield Sandal Magna Junior and Infants School, Wakefield Shay Lane Primary School, Crofton St. Michaels Junior and Infant School, Wakefield Waterton Junior and Infants School, Lupset, Wakefield Flanshaw Junior and Infants school, Flanshaw Wakefield Special schools Denby Grange School, Midgley Highfield School, Ossett Kingsland Primary School, Stanley Oakfield Park School, Ackworth Pennine Camphill Community, Chapelthorpe Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospital School, Wakefield The Felkirk School, South Hiendley Wakefield ... more details
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Infobox UK school name Silcoates School image size 150px latitude 51.672939 longitude 0.055751 dms dms motto Clarior ex Ignibus br Brighter out of the Flames motto pl established approx closed c approx type religion United Reform Church president head label Headmaster head Mr. Darryl Wideman r head label r head chair label chair founder founder pl specialist street Wrenthorpe Lane city Wakefield county West Yorkshire country England postcode WF2 OPD LEA City of Wakefield staff gender Mixed lower age 7 upper age 18 houses Evans , Moore s, Spencer s, Yonge s colours Yellow Green Blue Red publication The Silcoatian free label 1 free 1 free label 2 free 2 free label 3 free 3 website http www.silcoates.org.uk website name Silcoates School Silcoates School is a public private school in Wakefield , England . It was founded in 1820 as the Northern Congregational School at Silcoates House, for the board and education of the sons of non conformist clergy it was located close to Ossett and Horbury , which both had unusually large nonconformist populations. It was a boys boarding school until 1995, with pupils from all over of the world. Girls were admitted in the sixth form from 1976, with female boarders accommodated in the Coach House . The school now exists as a co educational day school with a large and attractive campus straddling the border between the West Yorkshire villages of Wrenthorpe and Alverthorpe . The Silcoates School Foundation has three schools under its name Silcoates School, Silcoates Sunny Hill House, and St Hilda s School. Silcoates has the most pupils, around 750 in total. The foundation caters for pupils from infancy up to eighteen. ref http www.silcoates.co.uk cat index 135.php Information about three schools in Silcoates School Foundation ref Motto The school s motto is Clarior ex Ignibus brighter through the flames , commemorating the Great Fire of 1904 which forced the school to move into temporary exile in Saltburn by the Sea Saltburn , on the coas ... more details
s West, West Alverthorpe Central, Westgate Common, Silcoates, Kirkgate, Alverthorpe North, Newton ..., Agbrigg North, Belle Vue, Milnthorpe 20 Wakefield West Snapethorpe & Roundwood, West Alverthorpe ... & Outwood West Kirkhamgate, West Alverthorpe North, Gentian Court, Newton Hill West, Carr Gate ... more details
Infobox musical artist For individuals see Wikipedia WikiProject Musicians background solo singer birth name Terry Dobson Born 1952 or 1953 br Wakefield, United Kingdom UK instrument Singing Vocals , Drums genre Europop occupation Drummer, Author, businessman,Manager years active 1969 Present associated acts Black Lace band Black Lace website http www.andthencameagadoo.co.uk andthencameagadoo.co.uk Terry Dobson was a founding member of the worldwide pop band, Black Lace band Black Lace , with Ian Howarth. ref http www.andthencameagadoo.co.uk terry dobson of black lace.php Terry Dobson Official Bio ref Their most well known hits include The Birdie Song , Superman Black Lace song Superman , Agadoo , Do The Conga, Hokey Cokey, Wig Wam Bam and Music Man , although Dobson had left the band by the time of those releases. They also represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 in Jerusalem, with the song Mary Ann , which finished seventh. ref http www.eurovision contest.com 1979 United Kingdom Eurovision contest.com Eurovision 1979 United Kingdom s Song entry ref Early life Terry Dobson was born in 1952 or 1953 on a large council estate in Wakefield, where he attended Flanshaw Infants now called Flanshaw Junior and Infants , Alverthorpe Junior, Ings Road Secondary Modern School, Building College until the age of 21 and further education at the University of Huddersfield . From 15 years of age Terry worked as a joiner for Horners Building Contractors in Ossett and also Wakefield Metropolitan District Council before turning professional with Black Lace in 1976. Terry formed The Impact pop group in 1969 with school pal Ian Howarth. This was after playing drums on the chair arms of another friend Freddy Pearson s mum s best 3 piece suit...a drum kit of sorts put together after Mr Billy Blackburn donated a bass drum and toms to the cause...It was a full 4 years and two further band name changes Penny Arcade and Love or Confusion before Black Lace was born. ... more details
Demolished 1952. ref name port329 sort z centre St Paul, Alverthorpe , br small coord 53.6922 1.5316 name St Paul s Church, Alverthorpe small File St Paul s Church, Alverthorpe, Wakefield geograph.org.uk ... Church of St Paul, Alverthorpe publisher English Heritage accessdate 29 April 2010 ref St ... more details
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