Local Bibliography

Akroyd, Jean Mallinson. ‘Ryburn Valley Reflections’. 1991.

Akroyd, Jean Mallinson. ‘Further Reflections from the Ryburn Valley’. 2001.

Anon. ‘A Short Account of Sowerby Methodism’. 1906.

Barlow, Ronald. ‘Kebroyd Land and Milnes’. 1956.

Baxendale, W.H. ‘Sowerby Bridge Industrial Society Ltd : Historical Sketch’. 1910.

Beazley, Ruth & Michael. ‘Now Then, Mill Bank’. 2007.

Broadley, K. ‘The Story of Parrack Nook : Rishworth Independent Chapel’. 1933.

Cliff, David. ‘Sowerby Bridge’. 2006.

Cliff, David. ‘Ripponden & the Ryburn Valley’. 2007.

Crossley, E.W. ‘A Paper on the Earlier History of the Church at Ripponden’. 1925.

Fisher, Jeffrey N. ‘The Rishworth Branch’. 1990.

Foulds, Jack. ‘A Brief History of Christ Church, Sowerby Bridge’. 2004.

Gibson, Basil. ‘Sowerby Town : As Remembered by some of us who Grew Up there’

Vol 1 1997. Vol 2 (More of Old Sowerby Town).

Gledhill, Hilda M. ‘The Story of 350 years at West Scammonden Church, Deanhead’. 1965.

Haigh, Rev. W. ‘An Historical Sketch of the Baptist Church, Steep Lane, Sowerby’. 1890.

Hargreaves, Dr John. ‘Sowerby Bridge in Old Photographs’. 1994.

Illingworth, Jean. ‘Growing Up in Sowerby.....and More’. 2008.

Lambert, Win (Ed). ‘Memories of Sowerby Bridge and Norland’. n.d.

Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society. ‘The Rishworth Branch’. 1983.

Ludlam, Harry. ‘The History of Rishworth School’. 1973.

Lum, Pamela. ‘ St Mary’s Church, Cottonstones : A Short History of the Church, Cottonstones

and the village of Mill Bank’. 1998.

Lum, Pamela. ‘Recollection, Reminiscence and Romance : The Story of Mill Bank and area in

World War Two’. 2006.

Muir, Augustus. ‘The History of Bowers Mills’. 1969.

Porritt, A. ‘The Story of John Atkinson & Sons’. 1960.

Priestley, John H. ‘The History of Ripponden’. 1903.

Priestley, John H. ‘The History of the Ripponden Co-operative Society Ltd.’ 1932.

Sowerby Bridge Civic Society. ‘Sowerby Bridge Town Centre History Trail’.

Smith, Arnold. ‘History of Sowerby Congregational Church’. 1945.

Stott, John. ‘The History of Stones Methodist Church & School 1800 – 1935’. 1935.

Sykes, Beatrice. ‘Krumlin Methodist Chapel 1868 – 1968’. 1968.

Thornburrow, Robert. ‘Memories of Yore (Mill Bank)’. 2000.

Whiteley, Hazel. ‘Ryburn Tapestry’. 1975.

Whiteley, Hazel. ‘Ripponden History Trail’. 1986.

Winder, Rev. J.W. ‘The Story of Sowerby Bridge Church’. 1945