DURING the 18th and 19th century it was not uncommon for families to record the trade of the deceased on their grave stone.
One simply stated that he was a clockmaker, and another that he was a wool comb maker, whilst others displayed it pictorially.
Benjamin Muscroft, a gardener of Oakworth, had a spade, a garden fork and a rake displayed on his.
Whilst Samuel Tillotson of Silsden was a monumental mason and displayed his set square, dividers, hammer and chisels.