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Dist:0.2km<br/>A low round-headed passage and a blocked-up cellar window, then on the end what looks to be an extension to the house over a through passage for vehicles.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>On an old gatepost – 196.84m
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Dist:0.2km<br/>These look rather like a modern version of almshouses, especially as old stonework frames the passage to the rear. There is another similar row of bungalows nearby, but without the old stonework.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>It is surprising to find a blocked-up Venetian window in a wall that appears to have been part of a demolished cottage.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>The inscription reads: 'United Methodist Free Church 1875'.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>'Free' in the name is as opposed to 'Wesleyan' chapels that were centrally controlled. This ex-chapel is now homes, and is in Thorncliffe Street. The detailed carvings over the doors are unusual for a non-conformist chapel.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Access to flats above the shops along Lidget Street is up steps at the rear.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>There was a field here in 1850, and buildings on the site of the modern flats in the distance.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>The former village was along East Street and West Street, the road from Birkby to Longwood, but in the later 19C Lidget Street was developed as a shopping street.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>I presume that the building on the left is the Sunday school.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>The ground level may have been raised here when the road was widened. The trough discharges into the chamber on the left, which was perhaps intended for filling buckets.
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