Clara was an excellent accompanist for all singers, and her husband Stanley was pianist for the over 60s Choir. Mother to Ruth, Richard and John Marshall.
Now lives in Norfolk. Married to Prof: Philip Jones. Daughter of Sheila and Stanley Shackleton and sister to Peter. Ruth was head girl at Calder High School 1969-70
Went to Calder High School between January 1957 and July 1961. Mother of Linda, Louise and Richard, daughter of Ted Cook, Aunt of Christine Levi nee Leeder.
Marjorie Cliffe (nee Hunt) was about nine years old when she was the May Queen at the Catholic Church on Fairfield, Hebden Bridge. Marjorie remembers going to Alice longstaff’s studio for this photo to be taken. She went to the Central School & then…
Pauline Akroyd (now Barmforth) from Ripponden. Daughter of Ella Akroyd nee Gibson. Photo taken late 1930s or early 1940s when tap dancing classes for children was quite a new thing.
Left is Mary Ann Holinrake, Grandmother of Derek Pollard. She lived in Heptonstall and worked in a sewing shop in Hebden Bridge. Mary holds a pair of scissors in her hand, the girl in the centre has a tape measure round her neck and the one on the…
A play based on the life of Alice Longstaff, written by Anna Carlisle and performed in July 2007 by Alexandra Mathie and Robert Garrett in the beautiful setting of Land Farm Garden at Colden.