
Local Bibliography
Akroyd, Jean Mallinson. ‘Ryburn Valley Reflections’. 1991
Akroyd, Jean Mallinson. ‘Further Reflections from the Ryburn Valley’. 2001
Anon. ‘A Short Account of Sowerby Methodism’. 1906
Barlow, Ronald. ‘Kebroyd Land and Milnes’. 1956
Baxendale, W.H. ‘Sowerby Bridge Industrial Society Ltd : Historical Sketch’. 1910
Beazley, Ruth & Michael. ‘Now Then, Mill Bank’. 2007
Broadley, K. ‘The Story of Parrack Nook : Rishworth Independent Chapel’. 1933
Carr, Julian. 'Victoria Mill and the People of the Ryburn Valley'. 2016
Cliff, David. ‘Sowerby Bridge’. 2006
Cliff, David. ‘Ripponden & the Ryburn Valley’. 2007
Crossley, E.W. ‘A Paper on the Earlier History of the Church at Ripponden’. 1925
Fisher, Jeffrey N. ‘The Rishworth Branch’. 1990
Foulds, Jack. ‘A Brief History of Christ Church, Sowerby Bridge’. 2004
Gibson, Basil. ‘Sowerby Town : As Remembered by some of us who Grew Up there’ Vol 1 1997
Gibson, Basil. ‘Sowerby Town : As Remembered by some of us who Grew Up there’Vol 2 (More of Old Sowerby Town) 1997
Gledhill, Hilda M. ‘The Story of 350 years at West Scammonden Church, Deanhead’. 1965
Haigh, Rev. W. ‘An Historical Sketch of the Baptist Church, Steep Lane, Sowerby’. 1890
Hargreaves, Dr John. ‘Sowerby Bridge in Old Photographs’. 1994
Illingworth, Jean. ‘Growing Up in Sowerby.....and More’. 2008
Lambert, Win (Ed). ‘Memories of Sowerby Bridge and Norland’. no date
Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society. ‘The Rishworth Branch’. 1983
Ludlam, Harry. ‘The History of Rishworth School’. 1973
Lum, Pamela. ‘ St Mary’s Church, Cottonstones : A Short History of the Church, Cottonstones and the village of Mill Bank’. 1998
Lum, Pamela. ‘Recollection, Reminiscence and Romance : The Story of Mill Bank and area in World War Two’. 2006
Muir, Augustus. ‘The History of Bowers Mills’. 1969
Porritt, A. ‘The Story of John Atkinson & Sons’. 1960
Priestley, John H. ‘The History of Ripponden’. 1903
Priestley, John H. ‘The History of the Ripponden Co-operative Society Ltd.’ 1932
Sowerby Bridge Civic Society. ‘Sowerby Bridge Town Centre History Trail’
Smith, Arnold. ‘History of Sowerby Congregational Church’. 1945
Stott, John. ‘The History of Stones Methodist Church & School 1800 – 1935’. 1935
Sykes, Beatrice. ‘Krumlin Methodist Chapel 1868 – 1968’. 1968
Thornburrow, Robert. ‘Memories of Yore (Mill Bank)’. 2000
Whiteley, Hazel. ‘Ryburn Tapestry’. 1975
Whiteley, Hazel. ‘Ripponden History Trail’. 1986
Winder, Rev. J.W. ‘The Story of Sowerby Bridge Church’. 1945