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	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Hudson Avenue. This 'extension' to Cross Lane runs into Southfield Lane and sort of made Cross Lane less well used except for residents."	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Recreation ground, 3 full sized football pitches-still there where we used to play as kids with jumpers for goalposts-you know the rest."	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Allotments-my grandad had one here"	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Sowden Street. My grandad lived at No 39 for more than 50 years."	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Halstead Place."	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Allotments for the locals - what a good idea they were."	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Cecil Avenue. A cut above in the day. Large terraced houses with servants, broad tree-lined road, overlooking the park to the rear."	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Great Horton Park top pond. There's a bench mark carved into the perimeter wall which is 574.6 Ft above sea level (or was in 1895!) Note: picture is of bottom boating lake . No pic of top pond"	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Bradford Park Avenue football ground. Division 3 they were in when I watched them in the late fifties. Great rivalry with the 'City' supporters."	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Cricket Ground, I watched Yorkshire-Fred Trueman etc. play here during those long hot school holiday summers mid late fifties."	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Nutter Orphanage for boys. Various uses since but now alas empty."	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Around here is Hunt Yard. So named as the yard was given as a prize to the person who slayed the wild boar terrorising people in the Bolton Woods area in medieval times and this is why there's a boar on the Bfd coat of arms. See pic. It is now old folks housing."	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Jennings Place"	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Melrose Street"	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Pleasant Street"	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Gathorne Street (often spelt-and we pronounced it as Gaythorne Street) Part of this street was pulled down stone by stone, reassembled and can be seen at the Bradford Industrial Museum on Moorside Rd, Bradford Moor. "	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "These streets were built as a mini-Saltaire by the owner of Union Rd Mills (where the chimney is). The street names-from the nearest to the camera are Lime, Hart, Vine and Falcon and then Union Road"	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Harris Court Mill (later Courtaulds) with owner's house and flat gardens behind. Now working men's club"	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Kingswood House, note grounds to rear in Kingswood Square where there was an communal air raid shelter (held around 300) until at least 1970."	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Westcroft (Rd) Mill, where I worked as maintenance plumber 1969."	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Cross Lane Library-wonderful Grade 2 listed building. Stupidly sold by auction for £125K by Bradford Council 23/7/13 and has lain empty and forlorn ever since."	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Bakes Street Congregational Chapel"	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Plaza Cinema."	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "St John's Church"	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Old Corn Mill Lane."	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Cousen Rd. Entrance to Gt Horton Park"	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Cross Lane Secondary Modern School (left), Cross Lane Infants (right)"	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "Brooksbank House,1600's. (Cudworth, Rambles around Horton)"	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a pin to image EPW052161 - "21 Kingswood Street, where I grew up."	7 years ago
	chrisrob added a comment to the image EPW024410 - "Corn Mill Lane runs off the pic centre left now over a..."	7 years ago
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	chrisrob edited the tag(s) for image EPW024410	7 years ago
	chrisrob joined the site and created a profile.	7 years ago