epw014881 ENGLAND (1926). Whinney Hill, Thrybergh, 1926

There are two roads here. Whinney Hill is the road on the right hand side of the housing, the one on the left is Doncaster Road.



The back to back housing was built on land owned by the Catholic Church. When the housing was eventually knocked down in the early 1980s there were plans to redevelop the site but the Church refused to allow this and the site has remained derelict and overgrown ever since. A small selection of the house at the top of Whinney Hill remain standing - the top block on the left hand side of the road where the cross housing meets the road.



That cross housing (going horizontally along the top of the photograph) was mostly demolished before the rest. I can never remember it from my childhood here in the 1970s. By then it was council housing.



The housing on the middle right, near the edge of the photograph shows Chesterhill Avenue. Ironically this housing has just (2011) been demolished!



Interesting to see the railway track snaking through the picture too. It forks at the very top right of the picture - the left track goes to a steel slag dump (which is still there, along with a sizeable amount of the track). The right track heads into Dalton Main (later Silverwood) Colliery.