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Generally an agricultural area, industry came with the canal and the [[Industrial Revolution]]. The town hosted a number of mills none of which now operate in their original form. There is still industry in the town, some in old mill buildings and some in a new industrial estate between the town and the river. The town retains some manufacturing.
Generally an agricultural area, industry came with the canal and the [[Industrial Revolution]]. The town hosted a number of mills none of which now operate in their original form. There is still industry in the town, some in old mill buildings and some in a new industrial estate between the town and the river. The town retains some manufacturing.
[[File:St James' Church - Kirkgate - geograph.org.uk - 547453.jpg|thumb|left|St. James' Church, Kirkgate]]
[[File:St James' Church - Kirkgate - geograph.org.uk - 547453.jpg|thumb|left|St. James' Church, Kirkgate]]
In 1911 there was a riot in Silsden when the [[police station]] was attacked.<ref name=DMirror1911>''[[Daily Mirror]]'' 10 April 1911 "Mob attack police station"</ref> A very unpopular policeman had been too enthusiastic in his duties. Questions were raised in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] and it was reported in the national press. The [[policeman]] was removed from the town and no more trouble occurred.
In 1911, there was a riot in Silsden when the [[police station]] was attacked.<ref name=DMirror1911>''[[Daily Mirror]]'' 10 April 1911 "Mob attack police station"</ref> A very unpopular policeman had been too enthusiastic in his duties. Questions were raised in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] and it was reported in the national press. The [[policeman]] was removed from the town and no more trouble occurred.


During the 1940s a hostel was built off Howden Road, (now a housing estate) The hostel housed [[refugee]]s and [[Prisoner of war|PoW]] from various countries and various camps. A plaque to commemorate this is located at the bottom of Ings way, at the entrance to the housing estate
During the 1940s, a hostel was built off Howden Road, (now a housing estate) The hostel housed [[refugee]]s and [[Prisoner of war|PoW]] from various countries and various camps. A plaque to commemorate this is located at the bottom of Ings way, at the entrance to the housing estate


In 1998 a [[Silsden Hoard|hoard of 27 gold coins]] dating back to the 1st century AD were found in the town and subsequently valued at £20,000 by experts appointed by the [[Department of Culture, Media and Sport]].<ref>[http://treasurehunting.tv/?p=88 The Silsden Hoard]</ref>
In 1998, a [[Silsden Hoard|hoard of 27 gold coins]] dating back to the 1st century AD were found in the town and subsequently valued at £20,000 by experts appointed by the [[Department of Culture, Media and Sport]].<ref>[http://treasurehunting.tv/?p=88 The Silsden Hoard]</ref>
[[File:Waterloo Mills Silsden Geograph-2205400-by-Chris-Allen.jpg|thumb|right|Waterloo Mills]]
[[File:Waterloo Mills Silsden Geograph-2205400-by-Chris-Allen.jpg|thumb|right|Waterloo Mills]]
The ''[[Guinness Book of World Records]]'' reported that the biggest onion ever, at {{convert|14|lb|kg|abbr=on}}, was grown in Silsden in 2010 by Vincent Throup.<ref>{{cite web|title=Onions {{!}} Food and Travel Magazine UK|url=http://foodandtravel.com/food/in-season/onions|website=foodandtravel.com|accessdate=10 April 2017}}</ref> However this has since been beaten.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://johngliddle.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/vincentthroup-above-displays-onion.html|title=John Liddle's blog|date=6 October 2012|work=Silsden--A Living History|access-date=10 April 2017}}</ref>
The ''[[Guinness Book of World Records]]'' reported that the biggest onion ever, at {{convert|14|lb|kg|abbr=on}}, was grown in Silsden in 2010 by Vincent Throup.<ref>{{cite web|title=Onions {{!}} Food and Travel Magazine UK|url=http://foodandtravel.com/food/in-season/onions|website=foodandtravel.com|accessdate=10 April 2017}}</ref> However this has since been beaten.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://johngliddle.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/vincentthroup-above-displays-onion.html|title=John Liddle's blog|date=6 October 2012|work=Silsden--A Living History|access-date=10 April 2017}}</ref>


On 6 July 2014, Stage 2 of the 2014 [[Tour de France]] from York to Sheffield, passed through the town.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.letour.com/le-tour/2014/us/stage-2.html|title=Tour de France Stage 1|accessdate=15 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725103415/http://www.letour.com/le-tour/2014/us/stage-2.html|archive-date=25 July 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
On 6 July, 2014, Stage 2 of the 2014 [[Tour de France]] from York to Sheffield, passed through the town.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.letour.com/le-tour/2014/us/stage-2.html|title=Tour de France Stage 1|accessdate=15 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725103415/http://www.letour.com/le-tour/2014/us/stage-2.html|archive-date=25 July 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>


==Governance==
==Governance==
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== Television ==
== Television ==
On 27 April 1995, a one-off [[anthology]] [[supernatural]] drama titled ''Chiller'' aired, in which episode 6, titled "number 6", featured Silsden. Silsden was featured for almost the entire one-hour episode, using locations across the town.
On 27 April, 1995, a one-off [[anthology]] [[supernatural]] drama titled ''Chiller'' aired, in which episode 6, titled "number 6", featured Silsden. Silsden was featured for almost the entire one-hour episode, using locations across the town.


Bonaparte's Restaurant, on Kirkgate, was the subject of the first-ever episode of [[Gordon Ramsay]]'s ''[[Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares|Kitchen Nightmares]]'' in 2004. After the show aired, Bonaparte's owner Sue Ray threatened to take legal action against Ramsay, [[Channel 4]] and the programme makers, [[Optomen]], after claiming that the show put her £400,000 in debt. Christine Hall, producer of ''Kitchen Nightmares'', refused to accept the blame, stating Ray only had herself to blame.<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article456638.ece "Ramsay's nightmare put me out of business"] - TimesOnline</ref> The programme revisited the restaurant in the second series, but Ray would only talk to Ramsay off-camera.
Bonaparte's Restaurant, on Kirkgate, was the subject of the first-ever episode of [[Gordon Ramsay]]'s ''[[Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares|Kitchen Nightmares]]'' in 2004. After the show aired, Bonaparte's owner Sue Ray threatened to take legal action against Ramsay, [[Channel 4]] and the programme makers, [[Optomen]], after claiming that the show put her £400,000 in debt. Christine Hall, producer of ''Kitchen Nightmares'', refused to accept the blame, stating Ray only had herself to blame.<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article456638.ece "Ramsay's nightmare put me out of business"] - TimesOnline</ref> The programme revisited the restaurant in the second series, but Ray would only talk to Ramsay off-camera.

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Silsden
Silsden canal
Silsden is located in West Yorkshire
Silsden
Silsden
Location within West Yorkshire
Population8,268 (2011)
OS grid referenceSE042465
• London180 mi (290 km) SE
Civil parish
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Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townKEIGHLEY
Postcode districtBD20
Dialling code01535/01274
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53°54′50″N 1°56′13″W / 53.914°N 1.937°W / 53.914; -1.937

Silsden is a town and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England, on the River Aire and Leeds and Liverpool Canal between Keighley and Skipton, which had a population of 8,268 at the 2011 Census.[1]

History

Silsden was mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book as "Siglesdene", and as the most important village in Craven.[2]

Generally an agricultural area, industry came with the canal and the Industrial Revolution. The town hosted a number of mills none of which now operate in their original form. There is still industry in the town, some in old mill buildings and some in a new industrial estate between the town and the river. The town retains some manufacturing.

St. James' Church, Kirkgate

In 1911, there was a riot in Silsden when the police station was attacked.[3] A very unpopular policeman had been too enthusiastic in his duties. Questions were raised in the House of Commons and it was reported in the national press. The policeman was removed from the town and no more trouble occurred.

During the 1940s, a hostel was built off Howden Road, (now a housing estate) The hostel housed refugees and PoW from various countries and various camps. A plaque to commemorate this is located at the bottom of Ings way, at the entrance to the housing estate

In 1998, a hoard of 27 gold coins dating back to the 1st century AD were found in the town and subsequently valued at £20,000 by experts appointed by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.[4]

Waterloo Mills

The Guinness Book of World Records reported that the biggest onion ever, at 14 lb (6.4 kg), was grown in Silsden in 2010 by Vincent Throup.[5] However this has since been beaten.[6]

On 6 July, 2014, Stage 2 of the 2014 Tour de France from York to Sheffield, passed through the town.[7]

Governance

The village is part of the Craven ward of the Metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford, part of the Metropolitan county of West Yorkshire.[8]

Community

Silsden Fire Station

Silsden has been administered by the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council since 1974. It also has its own town council.

Silsden has eight public houses: the Robin Hood, the Counting House, the Red Lion, the Duck Pond, the Post Office, the Butchers Arms, the Punch Bowl, and the King's Arms. There are two members' clubs: Sunnybank Social Club and Twisters Social Club.

Whilst Silsden does not have its own railway station, the Steeton and Silsden railway station is 1 mile (1.6 km) south in the village of Steeton. The station provides a link for commuters to the cities of Leeds and Bradford.

Sunnybank Social Club

Lying between Keighley and Ilkley, Silsden is served by buses to both these towns. Silsden's public transport benefits from Silsden being part of West Yorkshire rather than North Yorkshire, the border of which runs along one end of the town.

Notable people

The Lampkin family lived at Silsden during the Second World War. Lampkin brothers Arthur, Alan and Martin were, later, national motorcycle trials champions. Martin Lampkin won the 1975 FIM Trial World Championship and his son, Douglas "Dougie" Lampkin, is a twelve-time trials world champion.[9]

The Wainman family, a second motorsport dynasty from Silsden, compete in BriSCA Formula 1 Stock Cars. Frankie Wainman was World Champion in 1979, while his son Frankie Wainman Junior is one of the most successful drivers in the history of the sport.[10]

English rugby league player Jack Reed, who played for the Brisbane Broncos, was born in Silsden.[11]

Henry Price started his first Fifty Shilling Tailors shop in Silsden.[12] With this fortune, the now Sir Henry Price, bought Wakehurst Place, Ardingly, West Sussex, which is now owned by the National Trust.[13]

Margaret Wintringham, née Longbottom, was a British Liberal Party politician. She was the second woman take her seat in the House of Commons and lived in Silsden when her father was the head teacher at Bolton Road School.[14]

Television

On 27 April, 1995, a one-off anthology supernatural drama titled Chiller aired, in which episode 6, titled "number 6", featured Silsden. Silsden was featured for almost the entire one-hour episode, using locations across the town.

Bonaparte's Restaurant, on Kirkgate, was the subject of the first-ever episode of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares in 2004. After the show aired, Bonaparte's owner Sue Ray threatened to take legal action against Ramsay, Channel 4 and the programme makers, Optomen, after claiming that the show put her £400,000 in debt. Christine Hall, producer of Kitchen Nightmares, refused to accept the blame, stating Ray only had herself to blame.[15] The programme revisited the restaurant in the second series, but Ray would only talk to Ramsay off-camera.

In June 2006, Ramsay won a High Court case against the London Evening Standard, which had alleged, after reports from Ray, that scenes and the general condition of Bonaparte's had been faked. Ramsay was awarded £75,000 plus costs. Ramsay said at the time: "I won't let people write anything they want to about me. We have never done anything in a cynical, fake way."[16]

In July 2007, the butchers ,barbers and shoe shop located on Bradley Road were used in an episode of ITV's The Royal.

References

  1. ^ "Town population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  2. ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 442. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
  3. ^ Daily Mirror 10 April 1911 "Mob attack police station"
  4. ^ The Silsden Hoard
  5. ^ "Onions | Food and Travel Magazine UK". foodandtravel.com. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  6. ^ "John Liddle's blog". Silsden--A Living History. 6 October 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  7. ^ "Tour de France Stage 1". Archived from the original on 25 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  8. ^ "Craven". 2010. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  9. ^ "Arthur Lampkin Sr. obituary". Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
  10. ^ "Obituary: Frank Wainman Farmer and dealer". Yorkshire Post. 17 December 2004. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  11. ^ Irvine, Christopher (5 November 2011). "Jack Reed ready to face England's nemesis". The Times. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  12. ^ Competition Commission Report: United Drapers Stores Archived 25 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ "A man and his millions". Bradford Telegraph and Argus. 6 October 2000. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  14. ^ Dewhirst, Ian (14 September 2013). "Headteacher gave ungrudging service". Keighley News. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  15. ^ "Ramsay's nightmare put me out of business" - TimesOnline
  16. ^ "Chef Ramsay wins £75,000 damages". BBC News. 20 June 2006.
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