Castlemaine House
Castlemaine House
The land where Castlemaine House now stands at 9 Blaithroyd Lane has been recorded as Blaithroyd Working Mens Club (1905,1934).
Officers of the Club have included
- Lewis Midgley[1930] He married Unknown.
- Children: Mabel who married [Halifax 18th September 1930] Clifford Jackson
On 19th January 1934, the club was struck off the register
Question:
Does anyone know why the Club might have been struck off?
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The top property is the back of Castlemaine House
Wallace Bentley
[1864-1935] M.I.Mech.E. Consulting Mechanical Engineer from Halifax.
From 1892, he wrote several books on engineering and related topics:
- A Reference Book for the Use of Engineers, Draughtsmen, and Mechanics, and a Text Book for Machine Construction and Drawing Classes [1900]
- Machine Shop Companion
- Questions in Machine Construction: 14 Questions in Applied Mechanics
- Rules and Definitions
- Practical Workshop Mechanics
These were published by the Bentley Publishing Company (his own)
In [Q3] 1888, he married Martha Haigh in Halifax
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Ruth Bentley
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