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Tom Hird
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Yorkshire Post
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August 5, 2006
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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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