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Main Street South - Circa 1910
The picture show Main Street South,
Aberford, and was taken in about 1910 from the garden of a
property on the corner of Parlington Lane. This was the police
house (The Knoll), leased for 30 years from 1928 to West Riding
County Council.
The building on the north corner of the lane is the Conservative
Institute, with the stone-built library and reading room opened
in 1898. This was paid for by Col. Frederick Charles Trench
Gascoigne (1814-1904) and his son , Frederick Richard Thomas
Trench Gascoigne, who moved from Parlington to live at Lotherton
Hall.
Also on the north side is the terminus of the Garforth-Aberford
Railway - this line was opened about 1835 by Richard Oliver
Gascoigne to connect his coal pits with the Aberford depot.
The old Great North Road climbs the hill with the Methodist
Church on the left and the Manor Farm on the right. Nearby
is the Rose & Crown Inn which was once used as a court
house; it closed in 1938. On the east side was Talla Yard,with
Oliver Cottage once being a factory to candles for use in
the Gascoigne collieries.
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Photograph from the collection of the late Irwin Hill, of
Garforth |
Source: Leeds Express, Friday, September 7,2001. Page 6 -
Scenes from the Past - Number 219: by John Gilleghan |
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