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Dist:0.3km north<br/>This is one of the streets running north from Healey Lane towards the top of a hill, hence the name, though unfortunately the view is blocked by the buildings. The scene was a little disappointing, not least because of the parked vans, but I photographed it because of the nice house on the right, with its well-proportioned front and the curious outbuilding (now a garage) with a monopitch roof and a chimney. There is another nice Victorian house at the top, called Spy Field House on the 1907 map.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.5km north<br/>The B6122 at White Lee, where I happened to be at the time.
©Steve Partridge
Dist:0.5km north<br/>The junction with Belle Vue Street is just past the red car. The house on the left was called Garfield House in 1907, and the houses beyond also existed at that date. On the right the tall fence protects the grounds of a school. See photo of Healey Lane in SE2324 for more information on Healey.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.6km north<br/>Opened Sept. 2006. A state-of-the-art school for pupils with special educational needs, aged 3 to 19.
©Andrew Woodhall
Dist:0.6km east<br/>This view through two stone gateposts, with a glimpse of the house through the screen of woodland, just asked to be photographed!
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.6km east<br/>Healey was a hamlet separate from Batley, and started to grow in the 19C when there were two textile mills. The George Inn is the focal point, at the junction of Healey lane and Deighton Lane. The 19C houses ranged from small back-to-backs to the large houses of mill-managers and professional. At the western end streets were developed up the slope to the north of Healey lane, and a Methodist Chapel was built at the end of one of these (Healey Street).
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.7km west<br/>Overlooking Heckmondwike in the Heavy Woollen district of Yorkshire's former West Riding.
©Andrew Woodhall
Dist:0.7km north<br/>Originally built as a secondary school; this building is now home to Leeside Primary School, Whitelee Playgroup, and Bridge Kids After-School Club.
©Andrew Woodhall
Dist:0.7km east<br/>This road had recently been set out in 1907, and was still just a residential road c.1945, but later in the 20C it was extended so that the B6123 from Batley to Heckmondwike could bypass the narrow Healey Lane. The terrace of houses on the left look 19C, but were built after 1907.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.8km south<br/>
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.8km south<br/>
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.8km south<br/>Most bus services in and around Heckmondwyke were provided by the Yorkshire Woollen District company. When the West Yorkshire passenger Transport Executive was formed, the YWD buses were absorbed into it. Most of the buses were repainted into the PTE's Verona green and cream livery, but a few, as here, retained the YWD red.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.8km south<br/>
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.8km south<br/>
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.9km south<br/>The building on the right was the Sunday School when it was built in 1856; it has an inscription in the pediment: 'Independent Day and Sabbath Schools. Anno Domini 1856'. It is now the chapel (United Reform Church) and the newer building next door has been converted into flats. This was built in 1890 and is quite an amazing building, with a Classical front which the CofE of the time would perhaps have considered pagan architecture, and an exuberant tower (Italianate?) on each side.
©Humphrey Bolton

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