Harry Again
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I lived close to Bankfield house in the 1950s when it was the poshest house in the area,
It now seems to have been converted to flats after falling almost derelict.
Looking at the picture, I’m not sure
However the wall is not the same. Look at the intersection between the coping stones and the stonework. One wall has been built on a slope, the other has not. So it appears the chapel in your picture was built on a level site whereas School street slopes.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.6429143,-1.7621797,3a,90y,291.69h,76.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svy0hfeJGwWXcve1rWUctxw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttuAny idea if there was ever a school on school street?
This building is still standing. I lived almost opposite it 1947 1958 on Almondbury Bank At this time it was a weaving mill. As children we used to sneak in to watch the looms in operation.
One night it burned down, entirely gutted. However, it was repaired but shut down a couple of years later.
It stood empty for a long time after that.
I had no idea until now that it was previously a chapel.Additional info.
Barrow buildings in the 1950s was one of the few remaining cobbled streets in the area.There were once large brick kilns and a large brick built chimney in this quarry. Also a large metal cylinder on brick piers, riveted construction. No idea what it’s purpose was.
I wonder where the fuel (coal?) and other materials came from?I used to play there in the 1950s. They were long derelict even then.
The information given is incorrect. Amberley house was gone long before the Wakefield Road widening.
On that site was the Regal Cinema which WAS demolished to make way for the widening scheme.
I was a regular visitor to the cinema in the 1950s.This millpond was located right behind where I lived (60, Almondbury Bank) in the early 1950s.
At that time it was only a few inches deep and in the process of being buried with waste from a nearby foundry belonging to one “Fred Hardy” The dumping was illegal and there was some great shindig about it, I don’t know the outcome.
To the South and West of the pond were allotments, gradually being taken over and built on by the nearby mills, the users being evicted. To the North and East were a range of buildings in various stages of dereliction but nevertheless in use. Fred Hardy’s foundry building was part stone and part corrugated iron and near collapse. We used to run through it as children and watch the casting process, nobody cared.
Between Bankfield House and the foundry were a range of semi-derelict buildings used as a woolen mill.
There was also a stone built chimney , around sixty feet high (not in use).