Born Leone Jones on Lee Mill Road. She later ran Ashley House on Hangingroyd Lane near the bottom of Moss Lane. Leone married Johnny Knight, they had two sons, Lindsay and Julian, and lived at Hebden Grove in the 1960s.
Mrs. Adams along with Mrs. Nolan provided the meals for the navvies who were working on the construction of the reservoirs at Gorple. An amusing story was told to me many years ago concerning these two women, it goes as follows. Egged on by theseā¦