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The Rowley Ellwood Collection is an online gallery of over 500 historic old photos of Skipton, fully indexed and searchable. This site is a tribute to Dr Geoffrey Rowley and Mr Ken Ellwood who gathered together these fascinating prints. These photos are available for viewing on CD or DVD at Skipton Reference Library.
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My grandfather is Tom Pickles, 3rd from right, back row (in trilby).
Judith Henderson 15/02/2019
Judith Henderson 15/02/2019
Could this possibly be the old iron foundry which previously belonged to the Rimmington family (my 2 x great grandfather)?
Judith Henderson (nee Pickles) 15/02/2019
Judith Henderson (nee Pickles) 15/02/2019
Just wondering which skating rink this is as my 2 x great grandfather built 4 houses and a skating rink on Raikes Road, the rink being the...
Judith Henderson (nee Pickles) 15/02/2019
Judith Henderson (nee Pickles) 15/02/2019
Fred Hudson's Dance Band who regularly played at the Welfare, corner of Cavendish Street and Broughton Road (now part of Morrison's car...
Brian Cleaver 28/01/2019
Brian Cleaver 28/01/2019
It's their mobile fish & chip van & is parked up outside Swinden Quarry, Threshfield.
Ben McKenzie 27/01/2019
Ben McKenzie 27/01/2019
The shop was demolished in 1928 and rebuilt for G.H. Mason & Son and now occupied by Boots Chemists. The year of the photo could well be...
Peter Ellwood 16/01/2019
Peter Ellwood 16/01/2019
I seem to remember that Wilbefort's stuck around until the mid 70s at least. My aunt worked there around that time.
Darren Moorby 31/10/2018
Darren Moorby 31/10/2018
Does anyone know where the name Waller in 'Waller Hill' came from. Thank you.
Lilian Flesher 29/10/2018
Lilian Flesher 29/10/2018
Latest Updates
Latest gallery admin updates and notes:
We've started to add scans of Dr Rowley's notebooks. These are real treasure troves of information about Skipton's history. The new pages aren't perfect yet - please be patient as we sort out the glitches.
12/05/2018 Admin
12/05/2018 Admin
We've tweaked the "Browse all photos" function so that it now shows the most recently added photos first.
14/03/2018 Admin
14/03/2018 Admin
I've added 21 new photos today! All from Ken Ellwood's collection. I think my favourite is this one of "Berry & Matt" at the Roller Skating Rink. Does anyone know where that was located?
13/03/2018 Admin
13/03/2018 Admin
When scanning the photos, we often find hand-written notes on the reverse, especially pictures from Ken Ellwood's collection. Where we're certain the information is accurate, we'll include it in the photo description. If it's more vague, I will add it as an Admin comment below the picture, as "KE note" for Ken Ellwood, "GR note" for Geoffrey Rowley, etc.
21/01/2018 Admin
21/01/2018 Admin
Added two new photos today: Photo 753 and Photo 754. This is the first new content in many years! Ken Ellwood's family have very kindly shared their father's collection of old Skipton photographs with us. Some of the pictures are already on this site, donated by Dr Rowley's widow when the Rowley Collection was first built. But there are lots of previously unseen images too, and we'll be adding these to the Rowley-Ellwood collection in the coming weeks.
14/01/2018 Admin
14/01/2018 Admin
Fixed bug in pagination at foot of search results page.
09/01/2018 Admin
09/01/2018 Admin
Changed placement of Navbar from fixed to default. This gives more space for page content on small and mobile screens.
09/01/2018 Admin
09/01/2018 Admin
Added square format thumbnails for all photos in the collection.
21/12/2017 Admin
21/12/2017 Admin