ARGUABLY the best-known figure in Stanbury more than a century ago was Timothy Feather, a simple handloom weaver made famous because he had been doing the job longer than anybody else in the area.

He died, aged 85, in 1910. Here he stands in the doorway of his cottage at Buckley Green, near Stanbury.

‘Owd Timmy’ was the subject of many such postcards, shown in a variety of poses both inside and out, often sitting at his loom or bobbin-winder.

“Ya con buy ma for tuppence on a paast-card,” he used to say, “aaither i’ Stanbury, Haworth, Keighley or Bradford, thay saa”.

This view is particularly interesting because it gives a clear idea of what his cottage looked like.

It also shows, on the right, a few of the visitors who flocked to see him once he became well-known as “the last handloom weaver”.

The photograph has been supplied, once again, by Kevin Seaton, of Bradford Road in Riddlesden.