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4 unusual facts about Eccleshill


Eccleshill, West Yorkshire

Early in his career, the artist David Hockney created numerous paintings of the Eccleshill area.

Marie Studholme

Studholme was born in Eccleshill, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, the only child of Joseph Ludholme Lupton, an auctioneer, and his wife Emma Greaves.

Norman Crowther Hunt, Baron Crowther-Hunt

On 9 July 1973, he was awarded a life peerage as Baron Crowther-Hunt, of Eccleshill in the West Riding of the County of York.

Vets4pets

Vets4Pets was founded in 2001 by CEO Peter Watson, opening the first practices in Eccleshill and Bramley.


Thackley

In 1875 the Great Northern Railway opened its Shipley, West Yorkshire Branch railway, a six mile double track branch line from Quarry Gap junction near Laisterdyke to Shipley and Windhill railway station, passing Eccleshill and Idle railway stations and Thackley railway station.


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