Rebuilding the Isles Memorial area and Cobbled Turning Circle

Job Isles (1842-1919), was a leading Farsley businessman and engineer. He had supported the Baptist Church since he was aged 21, managed the burial ground for 25 years and founded the Farsley Liberal Club, which he was the President for 15 years. He was also a generous philanthropist and in 1902 purchased a convalescent home, The Sunnyside Hydro, in Southport.

His towering obelisk memorial is in the most heavily landscaped area of the Rehoboth, a triangle in the “A” Section at the top of the Carriage Road and fully visible from the gates.

At some point in the last 90 years a retaining wall had collapsed close to his memorial and a land slip then followed.

In order to rectify the damage our recently established Volunteer Building Group undertook three pieces of work over an 18 month period, these are illustrated in the photographs in the gallery below.

The work consisted of:

 1. Repairing the collapsed wall, including lifting the coping stones by levers and rollers.

2. Excavating the cobbled turning circle where, in Victorian, times horses brought coffins and memorial stones up the steep carriage road.

3. Building a retaining wall at the site of the land slip and facing with stone, funded by the Co-op Community Fund.  This work continued and was completed in spring 2021.