Introduction

   Welcome to the Methley Village web site - Having reached this point, I reckon that you must be interested in the village, its features, its past and its characters.
Methley is a former mining village in West Yorkshire about 10 miles south of Leeds, and lies in the inner sector of the confluence of the rivers Aire and Calder.
That’s for those of you  that dont know the place.   For those of you that know it and are trying to keep awake please look on this page for updates.   Expatriates from Newcastle to New Zealand and Wakefield to Canada enjoy looking up the old place, along with new and potential residents who also enjoy the site.
Bill Thackray - Editor.

History

In our History section fascinating articles about the Lords of the Manor and Enclosure Act 1775

It will also include profiles of Methley characters both past and present. In addition to a developing Gallery in the Social pages. Link to the Minett Photo Collection
 

Geography

In our waterways section a photographic record of the new canal construction on the River Aire.

Social

This section will include  social and civic amenities in the Methley area including walks and footpaths

Industry

This section will illustrate industrial and agricultural activity in Methley.

A continuing series of articles about Savile pit

Feedback

Your contributions to our web magazine are welcomed. See also our Visitors Book and Family History Section

   Refreshers           Bell Pit     Gallery Places     Methley Publications  
  
   Additional Items     Castleford RU 14   Doncaster Phoenix 11  

Hon. Editor - Bill Thackray, formerly of Methley, went to Castleford Grammar School from Mickletown School and achieved, along with modest O level passes a Grade 1 in handball fives.  An extensive career in administration with British Coal included 12 years at Savile Colliery.  Family and leisure pursuits helped maintain a continuous association with this village.   The seed to commence the web site was germinated following a request by Alma Townend in the Livewire Magazine for contributions.  Collaboration with Mr Allan Raphael, a later work colleague at NatWest was absolutely vital to create these squares, words, pictures and movements that you see. The layout was conceived in the early months of 2000 and the site went out on the 1st of July that year.

In the developing years of the web site I have avoided reference to numbers of visitors and ‘hits’ to the site, relying on responses and requests for information through the feedback page to interpret the popularity of the site.
A review of recent web statistics since January 1st 2008 show that methley-village.com is attracting on average 75 visitors per day.  (should the visitor connect more than once in a day it is only counted once).  A total of 8350 visits have been made from January 1st to April 24th and a total of 44,000 pages have been viewed in that time
Not surprisingly many of these link in through the main search engines which serves to indicate new viewers continue to find the site.    The statistics also reveal that along with expected visitors from commonwealth favourites, there were surprisingly individual viewers from other countries including Sweden, Korea, Finland, Holland, Turkey, Romania, Uruguay, Japan, Russia, Poland, Austria, Czech Republic,Belgium,  Switzerland, Norway, France, Spain, India, Malaysia, Italy, Iceland and Portugal and now Hungary.        I don’t know if any of these are Anglos living abroad but they are most certainly welcome. 
I have in the past invited contributions from surfers near and FAR which I now repeat.                                    Search it, navigate using the back arrow now.