Gallery
Primitive Methodist Church, Horbury, where Baines was baptized & where his 1922 funeral took place.
Courtesy of HorburyHistory.org
The Baines family, William standing second from left
A young Baines at the piano
The Yorkshire Training College of Music in Leeds (on Park Cross St), where the young Baines studied with Albert Jowett from 1910 to 1916
The Picture Palace cinema in Cleckheaton, where Baines's father became resident pianist in 1913
Eastbrook Hall, Bradford, where Baines would have attended some of his first orchestral concerts from 1913
Baines's Cleckheaton address, Foundry Terrace, as it looks today
Current site of the Victoria Bar Primitive Methodist Church, which the Baines family attended, following their move to York in 1916 (© Ian S)
The gardens of the Station Hotel, York, the inspiration for Baines's piano composition 'Paradise Gardens'
The Fossgate Cinema in York, where Baines's father was appointed musical director in 1916
Blandford Camp (Dorset), where Baines underwent his brief and ill-fated period of army training in 1918
The York Military Hospital, where Baines recuperated in 1919
Artist and poet Karl S Wood
Baines, c 1920
The opening bars of Baines's 'Seven Preludes' - his first published score, together with 'Paradise Gardens'
Frederick Dawson, Leeds-born pianist and champion of Baines
Bridlington's North Pier
c 1925
Arthur Eaglefield Hull, founder of the British Music Society, who took Baines under his wing early in 1920
Nun Appleton, home of Benjamin Dawson, and former home of Edith Milner. Inspiration for Andrew Marvell's "Upon Appleton House."
Flamborough Head, inspiration for 'Goodnight to Flamboro'
Baines's birthplace, 11 Shepstye Road in Horbury, as it looks today (see blue plaque above doorway)
The Mayor of Wakefield unveils the plaque
Plaque outside Baines' birthplace:
11 Shepstye Road, Horbury
1911 Census record for the Baines family at 16 Church Street, Horbury. Baines's father is listed as "grocer & music teacher". The household also includes 17-year old servant girl Annie Bradbury.