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Theft of lead from Victoria Hall Queensbury – Now with Photos – Submitted by Cllr Paul Cromie

The photos have been provided by Gary Brown, 07738276411 skyviewyorkshire@gmail.com these were taken using a drone on the evening of Tuesday 25 June 2013

 

From Cllr Paul Cromie:

At approx. 11 40 pm on the 20th of June I reported thieves stealing lead from the Victoria Hall roof via a 999 call.

I saw three men then load the lead into a white car and speed off.

I went to the scene and a person told me he saw a police car speed off towards Bradford, was it chasing the white car.

Sue, it might be wise to check the Church roof.

Update

Hi Everyone,

I have just received a call from the Police.

Good news they were chasing the white car they stopped it and arrested the 4 occupants and recovered the stolen lead.

Alan, et al, well done, you were on the ball.

We might be able to use this to promote by asking residents to report crime as it happens, even if residents are only suspicious it always pays to ring the police.

Kind regards Paul

 

 

 

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Web Site Imbalance in Content – Do You Want to Submit an Article?

The following was received by email:

I am concerned at the lack of balance in articles on this site, Cllr Cromies seem to be endored by the editor, and no other views are expressed.

Regards

John

I replied as follows:

John,

Thank you for your valuable comment, this is my site and no one else has any control. I input any suitable articles I receive and those that I research. It is true that Cllr Cromie has taken time to send me a few articles. Others have not actually submitted any articles, hence the imbalance. I can only input what I receive.

Feel free to submit articles, all gratefully received.

I will place your comments on the site, taking out your contact details.

Regards

Stuart

Reply from John:

Hi Stuart,

Thanks for your reply, I did not want to cause you any offence, I think this website is a credit to you and provides an invaluable source of information to Queensbury people, and I think it gives a more local aspect, something the T&A rarely does.

Regards

John

 

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Memories of the Navvy Houses

I was taken to live in the Navvy Houses with my mum and dad when I was about 7 years old. There were several terraced streets comprising of Great Street, Northern street, Railway Street and Oakley Street, they were built to accommodate the construction workers of the Great Northern Railway in the 1870s.

My first memories of the house were the small kitchen, the living room, two bedrooms and what I thought was an enormous attic with a window giving a good view over the quarry towards Mountain. I then saw the very scary cellar, little did I know that later it was to become a friend. This was in fact a small back to back terrace house with no piped hot water.

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Memories of a Mountain Village Near Queensbury

My very early memories of life in the small hill village of Mountain are indeed very limited. We lived at Pickering Hall farm and my grandma lived in the house next door. We seemed to have glorious long hot summers with a lot of time spent playing on the bowling green next to the farm.

Oh! The dark nights lit by our gas mantles glowing brightly from the ceiling, there was something very satisfying about the noise they made.

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Old Pubs and Inns of Queensbury

Looking at many documents on the history of Queensbury made me wonder at the number of pub names there were but no longer exist.

Can anyone provide information on these pubs? I would like to produce an article to input to this web site. Full credit will be given for your material.

A list of the pubs is below, this may not contain all of the pubs and some may have been renamed.

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