Now! Then! 2024! - Yorkshire On This Day

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Considerable damage has been done to game in consequence of heather fires on the moors around Ilkley and Bradford, They are supposed to have commenced in Shipley Glen, which is frequented by trippers, and the strong winds fanned the flames in various directions.

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Grouse lay their eggs in April and May, so the pleasures of the poor on Easter Sunday (15 April 1906) and Easter Monday will have diminished those of the rich on the Glorious Twelfth at the start of the shooting season in August. Here’s Shipley Glen on Easter Monday, 1912 – full description at the YFA:

Grouse shooting on Ilkley Moor ended in 2018 after Bradford Council terminated the lease held by the Bingley Moor Partnership:

On the other end of the phone the keeper let out a short, exasperated sigh. “The peewits will go, curlews, grouse of course, they’ll lose the lot.” “How long until there is a big impact” I asked.
“Two years maybe, certainly not more” (Cross 2018/05/16)

Has the prediction come true? Here’s a red kite hunting on the moor in 2015:

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Considerable damage has been done to game in consequence of heather fires on the moors around Ilkley and Bradford, They are supposed to have commenced in Shipley Glen, which is frequented by trippers, and the strong winds fanned the flames in various directions.

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