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Tom Hird

Dales sawmill owner

ONE of Nidderdale's characters, Tom Hird, the owner of the 200- year-old Nidd Valley Saw Mills, has died suddenly at the age of 81 as he prepared for another day at work.

The sawmill, which celebrates its bicentenary this year, supplies ash, beech, sycamore, oak and elm, which is bought from British suppliers before being cut and dried at Dacre Banks, near Pateley Bridge, for use by furniture makers.

Thomas Patrick Hird was born in 1925 at Rossington, Doncaster. He left school at 14 to become a tea boy at Finningley Aerodrome, where he worked under his father before training to be a joiner.

At the start of the Second World War, Mr Hird volunteered for the armed forces ...

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