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Re: St James CofE LittleHorton/W.Bowling, Bradford
« Reply #27 on: Friday 21 February 14 08:52 GMT (UK) »
Have you checked BT's at Borthwick York uni ?
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Re: St James CofE LittleHorton/W.Bowling, Bradford
« Reply #28 on: Friday 21 February 14 09:05 GMT (UK) »
Not for this one but I have been a couple of times. I found parking was expensive for what I needed and finding the right documents wasn't easy. The staff were very helpful though. The originals often have notes by the parson that are not on the Bishops transcripts. I chased the wrong relative for years until I found the baptism record that showed in the margin he had been born 30 months prior.

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Re: St James CofE LittleHorton/W.Bowling, Bradford
« Reply #29 on: Friday 21 February 14 09:23 GMT (UK) »

If you got Fanny's birth certificate the baptism would not be that important as info, I'm the opposite as my Granddad b 1867 (Yeh! I'm an old fa*t) by census baptism Jan 1868 was not registered for birth or I've never found a birth certificate


I park by the church in Hesslington free and 5 min walking it across the village green to the library, I think its 2 hours or maybe 3 hours free parking or the otherway on the housing estate off University road on Thief lane free parking all a day about 10 min walk by road or 6 min across the fields. (See Google maps) pick a sunny warm day though.  :)
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Re: St James CofE LittleHorton/W.Bowling, Bradford
« Reply #30 on: Tuesday 12 August 14 20:53 BST (UK) »
Found this pic in a book I have about Horton Hall Bradford, think this might be the church to which you are referring?

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Re: St James CofE LittleHorton/W.Bowling, Bradford
« Reply #31 on: Tuesday 12 August 14 21:11 BST (UK) »
Here is a snapshot of the map I have showing the church location.
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Re: St James CofE LittleHorton/W.Bowling, Bradford
« Reply #32 on: Tuesday 12 August 14 23:02 BST (UK) »
Thanks Wend,
great photo, just what I wanted.

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Re: St James CofE LittleHorton/W.Bowling, Bradford
« Reply #33 on: Saturday 26 November 16 02:10 GMT (UK) »
Hi guys.  This post probably comes too late to be of any use to you. You seem to have bottomed your queries.  However, for what it is worth:

I can confirm that the photograph produced by Wend is indeed of St James' parish church in West Bowling/Little Horton, Bradford and is the one indicated on the map also produced.

I was born in 1950 and as a child from the mid 1950s until the early '60s I worshipped at St James. For a time, until my lack of any talent was discovered, I was a choirboy there.  I was baptised at the church.  My parents, my father's siblings and my paternal grandmother also worshipped there.

I can well remember the church grounds.  I used to play there with the Sunday-School.  At the time there were no gravestones nor any indications that there ever had been.  I cannot say with absolute certainty that there was never a cemetery in the church grounds but I would be very surprised if there ever had been.  I think that the reference to St Peter's Bradford would have been to Bradford's then parish church, now its cathedral.  I do know that during my time with the church there were funeral services held in St James' church.

When I presented for confirmation (by which time I had moved with my parents to another parish in Bradford)  I recall that I was required to prove my baptism.  A little research at the time showed that the parish records for St James had been transferred to the neighbouring church of All Saints in Little Horton Lane from where I obtained the required certificate.  All Saints is still a lively church but is now combined with the neighbouring St Oswald's.

I don't know if this is of any use to you.  It has however jogged my memory and brought back some happy (and some sad) times.

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Re: St James CofE LittleHorton/W.Bowling, Bradford
« Reply #34 on: Saturday 26 November 16 18:32 GMT (UK) »
Hi IHM,
thanks for your reply. Since posting this topic I have viewed the baptism archives for St James and found that the records for some particular years that I need are missing (Ancestry records 1847-1851). I will now have a look at the ones for All Saints and St Oswalds.
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Re: St James CofE LittleHorton/W.Bowling, Bradford
« Reply #35 on: Tuesday 25 September 18 11:05 BST (UK) »
hi the picture could be wrong i lived on the same square i left home in 1968 the church was still there i was in the choir for many years till my voice broke when i was about 11

i was a soloist a few times the church had no graves the spire was off long before i lived there

i have pictures of the church inside out from back and the front from about where my house was

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