This sounds like a job for the Briercliffe society!!
http://archive.ilkleygazette.co.uk/2002 ... 28644.html
Tracing uncle
SIR, - I am trying to locate my uncle, whom I have not been in contact with for many, many years. As far as I am aware, he has lived in, or around Ilkley for some considerable length of time. Would it be possible, through the columns of your newspaper, to ask if anyone knows his whereabouts.
His name is Mr Ronald Edmondson who will now be in his eighties. When he was a young man he lived, with his parents (my grandparents) at 5 Kimberley Street, Harle Syke, near Burnley, Lancashire.
Any information would be appreciated.
R Rushton
62 Gillett Road,
Banbury,
Oxon,
OX16 0DP.