D-block GB-424000-465000
1986 EMPLOYMENT SAWLEY
There is a very small,local,car-repair
and home servicing business in Moor
Lane.People travel to Leeds,Harrogate
and Ripon to work.One youth works in
the grounds at Grantley Hall on a
youth opportunity scheme.There is a
joinery business in Lowgate Lane.One
man has recntly found a job in Perth.
THe teachers travel in from Harrogate,
Masham and Summerbridge.The major form
of employment is farming,with the farm
owners doing their own work with the
aid of sons and daughters.
Pictures from this D-block
Written accounts from this D-block
- Housing Tourism
- Education Village School
- Local History Sawley Hall
- Education School Concert
- School Sports Day
- Lifestyle My Family
- Lifestyle Sarah's Day
- Local History Lacon Hall
- Employment A Nurse
- Recreation Womens Institute
- Events Village Green
- Life Styles
- Recreation Village Hall
- Lifestyle Rachel's Day
- Farming Dairy And Beef
- Farming Sheep And Pigs
- Farming Machinery
- Local History. Farms
- A Dairy Farm
- Employment Sawley
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