Southowram History 1 - Church to Old Bank
Southowram History 1 - Parish Church to Old Bank
Clarke's Bridge at Bank Bottom
Coal drops - webpage
Above- The road where the wagon is coming from is Berry Lane. This leads around to Mackintoshes and then changes to Bailey Hall Road which leads on Swan Bank Lane to Swan Bank, Caddy Field and Stoney Royd areas at the bottom of Trooper Lane.
Beerhouses along this road included:-
T' Cat I' Th' Window - 8/10 Lower Kirkgate
Dublin Arms (aka Wagon and Horses) - 7 Berry Lane
Swan Bank Tavern - opposite Stoney Royd Gardens
Cat I'th Window stood at 8/10 Lower Kirkgate, where the entrance to Matalan carpark is. If you walked up the left side of the pictues you would be walking below the bottom of the Halifax Minster grounds.
Taken from the back of Mackintoshes
Duke William Inn, Bank Bottom
Strangers Rest Inn was on the right
Duke William on the right
Gas works on the right,
Above - Looking up Southowram Bank, Magna Via to the left and Clarkes Bridge/Bank Bottom to the right.
Bank Bottom thanks to Steve Gee
Straight forward we can see the old Roman road which is called the Magna Via or Old Bank
If we turn left we are on Charlestown Road
Above - Charlestown Road runs left to right
Old Bank
View of Southowram Bank
View Historic Charlestown here
Smith's wireworks
Above - The area below the Church was known as Bank Bottom and included Baldwin Terrace (bottom left), Riding Hall Carpets (just below central) as well as the following pubs/beerhouses.
Strangers' Arms at 1 Bank Bottom
Red Lion at 6 Bank Bottom
Mason's Arms 16 Bank Bottom
Moulders' Arms at 22 Bank Bottom
Bird in the Hand at 29 Bank Bottom
Dyer and Miller at Bank Bottom
Gas House Inn at Bank Bottom (off Old Bank and behind what is now the concrete batching plant)
The Lamb at 5 Bridge Street (left as you come out of the Railway Station carpark)
We return to this view but now we will walk to the right and climb up Southowram Bank.
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