http://www.wharfedaleforums.com/index.php Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:34:45 +0000 60 http://www.wharfedaleforums.com/topic/473-what-is-that-smell/
a few neighbours have been out trying to figure it out, was just wondering if this smell had appeared before?]]> Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:34:45 +0000 http://www.wharfedaleforums.com/topic/473-what-is-that-smell/ http://www.wharfedaleforums.com/topic/466-green-bag-collections/ Wrexham Road and Southfield Road were a disgrace yesterday afternoon after the bags had been collected, there were clippings and rotting vegetation scattered everywhere.
I saw several residents out with the sweeping brushes trying to make the place look better.]]> Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:53:20 +0000 http://www.wharfedaleforums.com/topic/466-green-bag-collections/ http://www.wharfedaleforums.com/topic/461-aerobics-classes/ ]]> Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:35:40 +0000 http://www.wharfedaleforums.com/topic/461-aerobics-classes/ http://www.wharfedaleforums.com/topic/459-free-wifi-in-burley/

If you run a free hotspots or know of one, please can you add the details to this thread.

Please note that I only want hotspots that have been provided as a public access point and not some ones private wifi that they have not secured!!

I am aware that some local pubs run wifi, but don't give out the key to every one, so please do not post those. I will post them if the owner wants me too.

Let's see what we can do!!]]> Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:44:35 +0000 http://www.wharfedaleforums.com/topic/459-free-wifi-in-burley/ http://www.wharfedaleforums.com/topic/451-save-our/
Dont just think about saving the stones, now it's time to save the Church Spire too!!

http://www.burleyparishchurch.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=100:the-spire-appeal&catid=1:latest&Itemid=2

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I just ought to warn you that I heard Burley had a slasher, and on Monday I saw him in action.

He doesn't just cut the advertising banners down from the fence on the roundabout opposite the GP, he really goes to town on them making them completely unuseable, slashed to ribbons. He leaves the corpse of the banner on the verge.

I think that whilst it may be wrong to put a banner on a fence without permission, the slasher's actions are crimminal.

I saw him in action and he knew he had been seen.]]> Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:44:54 +0000 http://www.wharfedaleforums.com/topic/447-the-burley-ripper/ http://www.wharfedaleforums.com/topic/446-speeders-beware/ 110 speeders in a week reported in Otley.

See report here. http://www.wharfedaleobserver.co.uk/news/news_local/]]> Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:47:34 +0000 http://www.wharfedaleforums.com/topic/446-speeders-beware/ http://www.wharfedaleforums.com/topic/445-community-policing/
They eventually stumbled on, around the main station road.

These are the same group of lads who previously went on a drunken vandal spree, knocking pots over in people's gardens earlier in the year.

The same have been known to wake people up at 3 am after being supplied with alcohol.

Just wanted people to be aware. Not sure if this is a one-off, or a more regular boredom activity.]]> Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:10:41 +0000 http://www.wharfedaleforums.com/topic/445-community-policing/ http://www.wharfedaleforums.com/topic/444-local-legends/


The Goblin of Old Cuck Ghyll

Tradition has it the reason Job Senior’s ferret became so fickle was because he loaned it to Old Cuck on All Hallows Eve. Before the Norman Conquest Scalebor Ghyll was known as Old Cuck Ghyll after the Goblin who lived in it’s dark depths. It was the same Dark Fairy who stole the hart of Sir Richard de Skalbor’s betrothed, long before Lady Ann Clifford lost her heart in The Strid. It was often said the Legend of the White Horse of Wharfedale actually referred to Sir Richard’s betrothed’s hart and not in fact a White Horse. However if one looks carefully one can still find remnants of the White Horse Legend in other parts of Wharfedale.

Sir Richard was a Knight Templar and had built a Templar Hall somewhere near the site of the former Scalebor Farm. It is very possible there were other Templar Halls thoughout the area. A common misnomer was to associate Sir Richard with the Maconochie-Wellwoods. Doubtless mistaking a dolphin for a herring. Something the Cluny Macphersons would never do, or rather would never do in the company of those, well let’s just say it wasn’t done. Old Cuck Ghyll became Scalebor Ghyll in memory of Sir Richard’s betrothed losing her beloved hart. A matter which led to him forbidding the hunting of Deer on land bordering the ghyll.

Centuries later the same ghyll was to see refinements unheard of in Sir Richard’s time. Concrete culverts took Moorland water to the Wharfe, garden gnomes dabbled their feet in it’s murky depths and trees died through lack of care. A new village covered the land Sir Richard’s betrothed’s hart cavorted upon and Old Cuck took his place amongst dabbling garden gnomes. It wasn’t a Heron which took your prized Golden Oaf last night, but Old Cuck upto his Dark Fairy fantasies again.]]> Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:40:07 +0000 http://www.wharfedaleforums.com/topic/444-local-legends/