Ossett Through The Ages (OTTA)

A group for those who wish to share photos, old and new, and historical facts about Ossett cum Gawthorpe.
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[Ossett Through The Ages (OTTA) @OSSETT_OTTA]

@EllyOldroyd So your grandparents didn't have a sweet shop in Ossett?

[Ossett Through The Ages (OTTA) @OSSETT_OTTA]

@EllyOldroyd are you connected to Emmie Nash, who had a sweet shop in Ossett?

[Ossett Through The Ages (OTTA) @OSSETT_OTTA]

@WDHupdate From Ossett! Whoop! Whoop!

[Sarah Jolly @sarahjolly1]

Ossett looking amazing to mark #YorkshireDay and #MindenDay. Individual roses to commemorate those who fought and died with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry #KOYLI .
👏👏👏@OSSETT_OTTA

[Ossett Through The Ages (OTTA) @OSSETT_OTTA]

Thank you to everyone who voted for OTTA! We brought this award back to #Ossett for the third year running!
#LWYLA2024 #HistoryMatters

[Deborah Cameron @DebsaDelight]

CHARLES FREDERICK BELL
#LestWeForget
Died 02 February 1918 Age 24
Such a moving tribute from his wife Cicely Florence (nee Rockley).The child was his daughter, Ivy, born 5 months after he died.her brother died a few months after her husband.She never remarried and lived to be 89

[Bramford Local History Group @BramfordHistory]

Another wonderful piece of ephemera has found its way into our archive! An original 36-page 1913 Almanac by Edward Packard & Co.

[Ossett Through The Ages (OTTA) @OSSETT_OTTA]

I was lucky to have one of our #OTTA s make some parkin for me last week!

[HistoryandHeritageYorkshire @GenealogyBeech]

I have had the pleasure of working with the super baker, writer and presenter @GrandmaAbson on several occasions. This is her recipe for Yorkshire Parkin. Growing up it was a staple on Bonfire night but it is also great on a cold winter's day with custard. https://t.co/TAzpeNVJsL

[Ossett Through The Ages (OTTA) @OSSETT_OTTA]

@GenealogyBeech @GrandmaAbson Ooh I love parkin!

[Forgotten Women Wake @ForgottenWomenW]

Did You Know: When the Wakefield Education Board formed in 1871 and the board asked for entries for a new logo, Louisa Fennell's design was chosen by unanimous vote: https://t.co/yqhyoWoSg3

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@WFlibraries

[A Street Near You @AStreetNearYou]

#OnThisDay 24 October 1924 the British Librarians war memorial in #Camden, #GreaterLondon was dedicated and unveiled. This memorial includes 142 #FirstWorldWar names #warmemorials100 https://t.co/QnF0rlhRfG

[Forgotten Women Wake @ForgottenWomenW]

Did you know? Baroness Alice Bacon of Normanton was a consistent voice in support of progressive reforms like decriminalising homosexuality and the move to allow for abortions. She also championed state schools. Learn more about Alice here: https://t.co/cTWU03GaQB

[Ossett Through The Ages (OTTA) @OSSETT_OTTA]

A member of the Invisible College

[Lily Craven @TheAttagirls]

Woman of the Day Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh, (1615-1691) of Co. Cork, a scientist and chemist and a member of the Invisible College, a group of scholars who met face-to-face, exchanged ideas and encouraged each other.

She was the elder sister of Robert Boyle, the founder of modern chemistry, author of the The Sceptical Chymist (sic) and known for Boyle’s Law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system. In other words, the principle by which both steam engines and human lungs work.

Katherine fostered her brother’s interest in chemistry. She had a lab built for him in her house as well as a chemistry set and conducted experiments alongside him, sharing ideas and theories.

Theirs was "a lifelong intellectual partnership in which sister and brother shared medical remedies, promoted each other’s scientific ideas, and edited each other’s manuscripts." She was also a skilled apothecary but had to be especially careful because women were not accepted into the field of medicine or chemistry at that time. They were supposed to be attending to domestic duties, not conducting chemistry experiments in their kitchens.

Contemporaries knew of Katherine’s influence and contribution to Robert Boyle’s work but she was subsequently confined to footnotes by later historians even though the evidence of her own work as a scientist and chemist was contained in her recipe book - a mixture of domestic topics, finance keeping, food recipes, and medical remedies she entitled ‘Kitchen-Physick’.

Although it was a multi-authored book, some of the medical recipes in the book are wholly hers. Katherine used a range of commonly available and exotic plant-based ingredients as well as a range of methods such as crushing herbs with a mortar to the highly technical skills and equipment needed for distillation.

She was a member of several philosophical and scientific groups including the Invisible College, which is thought by some to be the precursor of the Royal Society.

Katherine’s involvement in chemistry and her influence on her brother made her quite an extraordinary woman for her time. The practice of chemistry was considered the preserve to men who had the time and resources to conduct experiments. Women belonged in the kitchen.

Katherine died in 1691 at the age of 76, a significant influence on her brother till the end.

[Ossett Through The Ages (OTTA) @OSSETT_OTTA]

A smashing look at #Yorkshire #traditions

[HistoryandHeritageYorkshire @GenealogyBeech]

I am delighted that my new e-book A Yorkshire Christmas: Traditions, Customs, and Festive Feasts is now available from my shop, a link to which is in my Twitter Profile. "A selection box of the region's customs, traditions and festive feasts.

[Ossett Through The Ages (OTTA) @OSSETT_OTTA]

@ossettbrewery has a new name for this much loved pub in #ossett. Once home to Reggie Earnshaw, the youngest service casualty of #WW2 , the pub was first known as The Miller's.
More here: https://t.co/FVpMZVLMKA
and here: https://t.co/eTMIZuOizX

[Ossett Through The Ages (OTTA) @OSSETT_OTTA]

Constance Leitch isn't commemorated by RAF Snaith where she served. She is remembered in #Horbury

Herstory has been told here ⬇️
https://t.co/VtRQXZEpAg

@WomensHistoryFB
@CWGC
@WW2Airfields

More ⬇️
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@AncestralEnq I was recently 'told off' for calling these thing cobbles.

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@garybrannan With all due respect Gary, I am upset with you.

[Ossett Through The Ages (OTTA) @OSSETT_OTTA]

@garybrannan Did those in the room interpret your point in that way? I certainly didn't. We change it by refusing to accept it. Perhaps you should have looked further and seen the history we uncover. Many of us pay to access information, which we then freely share.

[Ossett Through The Ages (OTTA) @OSSETT_OTTA]

@garybrannan Then look for it because we've been doing just that for years. We have spent the last decade trying to prove people wrong. Your opinion, so casually offered last night, has made it all so much harder.