At fourteen he was apprenticed to a blacksmith, and for several years worked at this trade at Ilkley.
He was employed as a labourer by the farmers round Ilkley; but afterwards went to live at Whitkirk, near Leeds.
In the churchyard at Ilkley are the shafts of crosses, very rudely sculptured, and undoubtedly very ancient.
We have returned a week ago from Ilkley, and it has done me some decided good.
In winter he employed himself in wool-combing at a place called The Castle, near Ilkley.
