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©Oxana Maher
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.2km north<br/>View down Birkdale Road, Dewsbury, looking towards Hanging Heaton across the valley.
©Oxana Maher
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Batley School of Art & Design became part of Dewsbury College some years ago, and relocated to this pleasant site on Birkdale Road.
©Oxana Maher
Dist:0.3km north<br/>At corner of Green Lane and Brunswick Street. This could be mistaken for a suburban CofE church, such was the convergence of architectural styles in the late 19C. Perhaps the give-away is the twin doorways, one each side of the nave, which are often a feature of earlier chapels. This church was built in 1876, in a 'restrained Gothic Revival style' to quote the information in imagesof england.org.uk, which gives a detailed description.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Amongst this densely built-up area there are still large open spaces such as this recreation ground between Green Lane and Healds Road. Sometimes they have been preserved by being given to the Council with a covenant preventing development, but I don't know if this was the case here. In the background are some of the older buildings of Dewsbury Hospital, which like many old hospitals was first built as a Workhouse.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Another view of the church from Beckett Road. The church replaced a large house, of similar size to the one on the right.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km north<br/>With a rounded corner, and a house at the back. Then three one-storey lock-up shops and a three storey building with a parapet that would have looked better if carried on along the side. Perhaps the architect was expecting another tall building next door!
©Humphrey Bolton
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©Betty Longbottom
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©Betty Longbottom
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©Oxana Maher
Dist:0.4km north<br/>This was the lodge for Marlbro' House (spelt in this shortened form on the 1907 1:2500 map).
©Humphrey Bolton
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©Betty Longbottom
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.4km north<br/>This new housing development was built on the site of the former Dewsbury General Hospital, after several small local hospitals in the Dewsbury & Batley area were amalgamated into the Dewsbury & District Hospital on Halifax Rd.
©Oxana Maher

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