Old Postcards of Garforth

These are the Garforth postcards broken down by publisher. I collect these so if you have any cards that you'd like to sell please let me know.

Most of the cards are used elsewhere on the site in the correct places however they are also laid out below by card series for anyone who is interested.

Where possible I have noted the sequence numbers for the cards and presented them in order. Any card which starts NN means 'no number' i.e. I have assigned my own NN numbers just so I can keep track of them. Over time I may be able to give some of the NN cards their correct numbers.

Bramley
Frith
GCA
H Burniston
Hobbies
Hoult
Laycocks
Lilywhite
Milton
Parkinson and Roy
Phototype
Richards
Unknown

Bramley

Bramley were a local Leeds company based in Cross Gates just up the road from Garforth. The company address is given as Bramley, Publisher, The Electric Press Printing Works, Cross Gates, Leeds.

There are several Bramley cards without numbers, those which are sequenced are e.g. 'B19'. Other cards are simply marked with 'B' in one corner or just the number.

The Bramley numbers do not seem to be unique for example different cards from different places may be marked 'B19'.

There are also tinted versions of some cards available.

b02 Town End Carnival

b02-alt St Marys Church

b02-alt1 Carnival

b03 Rectory

b05 Manor Farm

b06 Briggate

b06-tint Briggate

b07 Briggate

b07-tint Briggate

b09 Briggate

b10 Town End

b14 Town End

b16 Station

b19 Wakefield Road

b19-tint Wakefield Road

b20 Wakefield Road

b21 Gaping Goose

b22 Lidgett Lane

b24 Hilderthorpe Terrace

b26 Old George

b29 Church Lane

b30 St Marys Church

b32 Isabella Pit

b33 Sisters Pit

b34 Trench Pit

b36 Church Lane

nn02 Station

nn05 Church Garforth

nn08 Barrowby Hall

nn09 Multiview

nn10 Lidgett Lane

nn11 St Marys Church

nn11-tint St Marys Church

nn14 Town End

nn17 Salisbury Terrace

nn18 Town End

nn19 Multiview

nn20 Parochial School

nn21 Primitive Methodist Chapel

nn22 Multiview

nn24 Station Road

nn25 Briggate

Frith

The Frith company is still in existence today as Francis Frith who sell many items with their old images on as well as old maps etc.

Frith cards are marked with a place code (of their own devising) and a number. The place code for Garforth is GFH so all Frith cards for Garforth are marked e.g. 'GFH3'. For Guiseley this is GSY.

This sequence is also used for the Lilywhite cards (the owner of Lilywhite later ran Frith) however the cards in each series are not the same i.e. Lilywhite GFH2 is different to Frith GFH2.

For Garforth There are 46 Garforth images in the Frith archive (51 including tints), for Guiseley there are 50. Currently only a subset of these appear on the main Frith website for purchase.

Historically not all Frith images of a given place were published as postcards so it's unknown how many of each set might physically exist other than those shown below.

For Garforth the Frith cards are dated from either c.1955 (GFH1-19) or c.1965 (GFH20-46).

Not all Frith cards in the gallery below can be viewed at full size due to copyright restrictions, all Frith cards are copyright The Francis Frith Collection and those that can be viewed are used with permission.

Garforth Barleyhill Road Recreation Ground

gfh01 Barleyhill Road Recreation Ground

gfh02 Main Street

gfh03 Church And Oak Estate

gfh07 St Marys Church

gfh11 Barleyhill Road

gfh23 Main Street

gfh40 Main Street

gfh42 Church Lane

gfh42f Church Lane

gfh44 Main Street

gfh46 Main Street

Gca

Garforth Community Association still exists today and these cards must have been made by them perhaps for sale in local shops. Looking at the outfits I would say these cards are from the 1980s.

The printing quality of the original postcards is quite poor so sadly the images aren't very clear.

nn01 Station

nn02 Main Street

nn03 St Marys Church

H Burniston

Cards have a 3 digit numeric reference, the back of the cards are marked 'Published by H. Burniston, Leeds'.

137 Miners Welfare Hall

139 Wakefield Road

Hobbies

I don't have any information on this company, there is only a single card but the back is marked 'HOBBIES' above postcard but without an address. There do not appear to be any sequence numbers and the card is an early one posted in 1905.

nn01 Old George

Hoult

This selection of cards were created by A. W. Hoult who ran Garforth Post Office. They were presumably created by him for sale from the post office itself and as such are solely of Garforth.

There are no sequence numbers with each card just being marked A. W. Hoult, Post Office, Garforth to the front and no further details being printed on the back.

A. W. Hoult was a Mr. Alfred William Hoult who was born in Liverpool in January 1893 to an Irish father and an English mother. By 1901 the family had moved to Holbeck in Leeds and by the age of 18 Alfred was working as a billiard marker.

In 1921 he married Mary Maude Galvin who had previously been working as a post office assistant. Around this time Alfred became Subpostmaster at Garforth Post Office (perhaps through some connection of Mary's) where he lived with his new wife and their children. Alfred remained in this post for several decades until he was tragically killed in a car accident in 1949 aged 56 on his way to his son's wedding in Uttoxeter.

nn01 Main Street

nn02 Church Lane

nn03 Station Fields

nn04 Lidgett Lane

nn05 Lidgett Lane

Laycocks

The Laycocks cards are marked with 'Laycock's Real Photo Series' but no other company details. There was an E.W. Laycock who had a newsagents in Church Lane, I believe these cards will have been created by him for sale from his shop. As such all of the Laycock's cards are likely to be of Garforth.

There are several Laycock's cards without numbers, those which are sequenced are numeric only e.g. '123'. There are many gaps in the sequence however the sequence runs into the thousands and I would not think that there will be that many card in existence.

0483 Ninelands Lane

0484 Wesleyan Chapel

0487 Briggate

0491 Town End

0492 St Marys Church

0494 Briggate

0500 Station Road

0501 Station Fields

0629 Manor Farm

0632 St Marys Church

0633 Station

0702 Trench Pit

0706 Church Lane Corner

1032 De Grey House

1033 Isabella Pit

1050 Wakefield Road

1051 Coupland Road

1052 Barleyhill Road

nn01 Sisters Pit

nn02 Station Fields

nn03 Manor Farm Barwick Road

nn04 The Grange

nn05 Rectory

Lilywhite

Lilywhite were a local company based in Halifax though they made cards for lots of places. The company was in operation from 1909–1931.

The cards are sequenced the same as the Frith ones e.g. GFHxx for Garforth.

gfh-u01 Garforth Bridge

gfh-u03 Trench Pit

gfh01 St Marys Church

gfh02 Dar Villas

gfh03 Station Fields

gfh04 St Marys Church

gfh05 Church Lane

gfh06 Lidgett Lane

gfh07 Station Road

gfh08 Lidgett Lane

gfh09 Church Lane

gfh15 Station Fields

gfh16 Briggate

gfh17 Manor Farm

gfh18 Isabella Pit

gfh20 Wakefield Road

gfh22 Manor Farm

gfh23 West Garforth

Milton

The Milton cards seem to be a series by Woolstone Brothers, the cards read The Milton Series for Local Views, Woolstone Bros, London, EC1, Printed in Saxony on the back.

The cards are all unsequenced and are just printed with the name of the view on the front. Postally the cards seem to be dated from the 1930s.

nn01 Town End

nn02 Main Street

nn03 Garforth Bridge

nn04 Wakefield Road

nn05 Coupland Road

nn06 St Marys Church

Parkinson and Roy

Parkinson & Roy were a local Leeds company, the address is given as Parkinson and Roy, The Studios, Kelsall Street, Leeds and is printed on the front of the earlier cards. Later cards just say 'P&R Leeds' on the front.

There are several Parkinson & Roy cards without numbers, those which are sequenced are numeric e.g. '123' and a few seem to be suffixed e.g. '41B'. There are many gaps in the sequence some of which are likely to be Garforth cards.

040 Church Lane

041a Manor Farm

041b Manor Farm

042 Manor Farm

178 Station

179a Greens Nurseries

385 Station Road

386 Isabella Pit

387 Sisters Pit

390 Station Road

433 Manor Farm

435 Manor Farm

437 Manor Farm

438 Trench Pit

443 Lowther Road

444 Beech Grove Avenue

445 Church Lane

447 Paradise Sturton Lane

448 Churchfield

461 Manor Farm

463 Manor Farm

556 Manor Farm Butter Making

559 Briggate

560 Coupland Road

562 Barrowby Hall

571 Manor Farm

nn01 Sturton Grange

nn02 Station Road

nn03 Briggate

nn04 Wakefield Road

nn05 Station

nn06 Station

nn07 Sturton Grange

nn08 Sturton Grange

nn09 Briggate

nn10 Station Road

nn11 St Marys Church

nn13 Town End

nn14 Briggate

nn15 St Marys Church

nn16 Church Lane

Phototype

The Phototype Company were a local Leeds company, the address is given as The Phototype Co., Ventnor St., Leeds. The cards are sequenced with a four digit code e.g. '1467' and are from the early 1900s.

1867 Parochial School

1868 Paradise Sturton Lane

1873 Briggate

1876 Wesleyan Chapel

1878 Briggate

1879 Rectory

1883 St Marys Church

1885 Wakefield Road

1886 Police Station

1888 Station Road

2076 Multiview

nn01 Barleyhill School

nn02 East Garforth School

nn03 Lidgett Lane

nn04 Primitive Methodist Chapel

nn06 Church Lane

nn07 St Marys Church

nn08 United Methodist Free Church

Richards

Richards were a York based company with the address given as Richards R.B. & E.D., Strensall, York.

There are not many cards from this company and I have guessed at a couple based on the lettering style on the front (specifically the writing of N^o with the super scripted o is common to them all). They all seem to be marked e.g. 'N^o7'.

Postally the cards seem to be dated from around 1910–1930.