This page is very much a work in progress. I’ll add more as time allows. Click on a name to read the stories of these ‘ordinary’ Ossett folk.
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THE COCKBURNS: Ossett Observer proprietors
ERNEST WILBY: Pioneer of Industrial Architecture
LOUISA HANSON: A Forgotten WW1 Red Cross Nurse
JANE TOLSON-SHAW : Educator and Philanthropist
JOSHUA PICKERSGILL: Transported to Western Australia in 1850
THE ASHTONS: Ossett & New Zealand
THE CUDWORTHS: Spurn Point Connections
CYRIL TYLER: Vice Chancellor of Reading University and County Cricket Player
HALVOR TASKER: Ossett 1940 Air-Raid
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HORBURY & OSSETT FAMILY & LOCAL HISTORY 