1745 when pursued by George II's forces. The passage, perhaps useable by a desperate man, is likely to be the substantial stone walled water conduit seen by Trevor Hodgson in the late 20th century. Samuel and Elizabeth's second son, John, born in 1737, would be the grandfather of his namesake who established the internationally known business of John Swire & Sons in the early 19th century. Their elder son, Roger, born in 1735, probably lived to oversee the rebuilding of Cononley Hall before his death in 1778. The western wing of the old house was retained but a new taller classically proportioned building was erected beside it. Unfortunately Roger's son and grandson would only enjoy the new building for relatively short periods. In 1837 Cononley Hall was sold and, after a succession of owners and uses, was divided into three houses in 1911. Roger Swire (1735–78) was the principal beneficiary of the enclosure of Cononley Moor in 1768. The enclosure completed a process which had been underway in Cononley for centuries and which removed the last common land available to smallholders with little land of their own. Another major beneficiary was Richard Wainman of Carr Head in Cowling, who was a descendant of the above mentioned Bradley family. However, a number of farmers received uneconomical, and often poorly situated, allocations as a result of the enclosure and were forced to sell their land to the larger landowners. This process added to the increasing number of breadwinners who were skilled tradesmen or handloom weavers. The Industrial Age Between 1790 and 1810 a small water powered cotton mill operated at the upper end of the village. Woollen textile production would remain a domestic industry for several more decades. A group of self-employed men founded the Cononley Club Row Building Society in 1822. By 1832 they had built 32 houses on Cross Hills Road all of which were designed to hold looms. Club Row, also known as Union Row and now Aire View, acquired the nickname 'Frying Pan Row' after a story told by Enoch Whitaker (1831–1922) who actually owned the frying pan. In 1837 two separately owned mills were built close together between the village and the River Aire. The 'High' and 'Low' mills, as they were known, were built parallel with each other and at right angles to the road to Farnhill and Kildwick. Fortunately, the High Mill, identified by its