REEVES INDEX ENTRIES

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REEVES INDEX ENTRIES AS OF 26 May 2009

1896
Barrett Directory: Arthur George Reeve noted as authorised plumber, gas-fitter and tinplate worker at 1a Church Street.
Reeves Charles noted as one of the promoters of the Craven Junction Railway Bill of 1866. This bill failed and is the reason why the Barlick junction railway never got to Gisburn.

1914
LTP 78/AB/06. Page 3. Billy Brooks told me that in 1914 he and Tom Reeves cycled up to Skipton to volunteer for enlistment but the recruitment station was too busy so they cycled back home. I don’t know what Tom did but Billy never wemt back, he said the mood went off him! He never served as he was an essential worker in the mill.

1971
Trevor Stuart Reeves was a member of BUDC 1971-1974.

2003 information
Jim Bailey rang me June 2 2003 and told me that his mother, Margaret Reeve married James Marginson Bailey and they lived in a cottage (demolished) at the bottom of Salterforth Drag on the inside (east) of the sharp corner at the bottom of Burdock hill. Margaret Reeve’s brother, Jim Reeves was a stonemason at Sagar’s Quarry when Jack Platt worked there (1920/1930) Jim had a relation called Jack Sagar who was James Rushton’s second in command in the Barlick Communist party. After the troubles over More Looms and wages in 1932 he was blacklisted. He started working as a gardener and eventually got a job as a paint-sprayer at Bristol Tractors, Sough Bridge Mill, in 1945. Jim Reeves also worked at Bristol Tractors for a while.