ANOTHER demolished local residence was The Shroggs – its name meant “bushes” – one of Steeton’s best-known homes, belonging to the family of worsted spinners and manufacturers John Clough and Sons.

Head of the firm Thomas Clough, who died in 1911, had built Steeton’s Institute and given land for the cemetery. His son William Clough, who died in 1937, was Liberal MP for the Skipton Division from 1906 to 1918, in addition to serving as a West Riding county councillor to 1910.

During its later years as an old people’s residential home, The Shroggs retained many of its atmospheric Victorian features, but was sold in 1990 to the Northern Health Care Group for incorporation into “a new hi-tech care complex”, a development which necessitated its demolition.