A recent enquiry about 1 Lower Wellington Road, next to the performing arts centre on the junction near Booths, now flats. 

Did it use to be a pub ?  What records exist in relation to the building's previous use?

Our response:

Two images of the pub and restaurant and the ‘Pub sign’ that hung outside the Wharfe Cottage. (Posted on Facebook a few years ago)

Adverts for the Wharfe Cottage Restaurant that appeared in the Ilkley Official Guidebooks 1971-1975

1875 Newspaper advert Wharfe Cottage Sale

1881 Census. David Vaux & family – Confectioners

1889 Death of John Green Coal merchant Wharfe View Cottage

1891 Advert Wharfe Cottage To let

1949 Death Herbert Walton Wharfe Cottage

1990 Advert for Wharfe Cottage

1991 Sale Advert Wharfe Cottage

This time-line includes information from census returns & the Electoral roll.

1875                   Wharfe Cottage for sale – Newly erected

1881                   David Vaux – Confectioner

1891                   Charles Rose – Builder’s labourer (1 Clifton Terrace)

1901                   Joseph Holden – Gas Stoker

1910                   John & Edward Stephenson

1911                   Joseph Barker – Traction Engine driver

1922-1948      Herbert & Mary Walton 

1971-75            Wharfe Cottage Restaurant

<1984-1990    Wharfe Cottage Inn

1991                   Wharfe Cottage for sale